Glass Dragons Still Breathe Fire - The Gareth Bale Thread

We are a year too late to get great money and two years too late to for the perfect transition because stupid pride.

If only Florentino had bet on Mbappe and sold him the way the way he bet on Bale, selling Ozil.

 

Ten year challenge

 

Carlo began to bench Ozil for Isco and DiMaria .. with the arrival of Bale to form the BBC it was gonna be almost impossible for Ozil to play in the 433..
He was essentially forced out.

 

Uh....

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So threatening Ozil with sitting in the stands after low balling him at the contract renewal negotiation didn't make Ozil feel pushed out?

Lol ok.

Again, Florentino should have used these "not feeling pushed out" tactics on Bale or Benzema instead of coddling them.

 

Yes because Florentino felt disrespected and this disrespect became threat enough to potentially ruin his career.

Let's try not to spin the obvious.

Ozil was lowballed by Florentino. Ozil's naive father in a rage disrespects Florentino. After this action Ozil felt his career could possibly be ruined. This "feeling" Florentino gave Ozil is what led to Ozil's departure.

I'm saying Florentino should have also given Bale and/or Benzema such "feelings". If Florentino wanted to he could. After all he had no problem giving Cristiano "feelings" for years as well (yes, I'm aware you hate Cristiano and he is a brat).

This is bullshit. Ozil could have easily said "No, I want to play at the club".

Ramos and Rene do this all the time. Yet Florentino sees them as indispensable so they stay.

 

@YOUNGSTARS87 He doesn't want to understand, he just wants to slander Ozil because its the thing to do in Germany these days.

I get it though, we give Bale/Benz the Ozil/Higuain/James/Morata treatment and we are selling them the next transfer window.

We're watching it happen in real time with Isco and Keylor FFS.

 

Yes you can and his father disrespected Florentino. Is he now "everybody"?

His father made those mistakes, not Ozil. This was Ozil's point and why I again highlight the "feeling" Ozil was given by Florentino.

Exactly.

Florentino knows how to make players feel less welcomed and they usually move. If he did half of that with Bale, he bails.

Florentino didn't because in his arrogance he wanted to get rid of Cristiano and saw Bale as his replacement. We are suffering for this. That is the reality.

 

... or we could just use the obvious examples from the past (not purposefully avoid the hints that don't support our side of the argument).

 

Wait, so you know because you met with him and shit?
You seen to defending Perez with any decision.
If it's a good decision, it's Perez.
If it's a bad, it's the "board".
Keep thinking that Perez is not involved in benching players.
Perez is like Jerry Jones, he thinks he knows football (NFL), he thinks he has the best coach and the best QB in the league, everyone outside Dallas knows his wrong, but nobody is saying it internally.

 

That's just to get good money on his eventual transfer and because as a 32 year old coming off a year on the bench Keylor wouldn't have any leverage for contract negotiations with a new team.

 

This guy is the footballing equivalent of a catfish.

 

4 CL in 5 years comes down to the players & Carlo/Zidane. Perez is lucky to be associated with that in some ways. He is the one that hired Rafa Benitez to lead us and got beyond lucky that Zidane came in mid season to save us.

Also Bale is trash , get the hell out of my club.

 

1 La liga in those 8 years?

 

sorry, forgot to add, genius...

 

I still like Florentino a lot, the current state of this club is 100% on him though. He can be foolish, like thinking Bale could be the leader of this club smh.

 

This is how I feel as well.

I just find it hypocritical that some get made just because I call him out on his mistakes; mistakes which have severly hurt us.

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Regardless he is still our guy, we just need him to do better. The complacent attitude of defending players, coaches or our leaders blindly doesn't help this club. It's what hurts it.

 

so when you want its ok to compare us to Bayern, but when we're talking about players, its like heaven and earth distance between us and them...

I'm not erasing what Perez did for the club, and the many CLs win, but you can't deny that while we won CLs in the last 2 years, we were getting weaker and weaker with Perez not taking any steps to fix it, even worse, taking steps to make us weaker.

 

Veratti is injured apparently. So injury prone