Glass Dragons Still Breathe Fire - The Gareth Bale Thread

1 year. We are allowed to terminate his contract and release him a season before the end of his deal by paying out his base wages which is preferable from ending up using him and paying bonuses.

If he's that far out of the picture, use the just cause justification, pay him off and release him.

 

Contrary to popular belief i doubt he'll sit this out and not care about playing, so i think sitting out will irk him. There are tons of clauses to terminate a player's contract, and we can be aggressive and force the issue, but i think we'll make it clear he won't be touching a single football for us and pay him off to leave.

 

I don't think the club will terminate his contract. It's more likely they'll pay him out. I think terminating looks really bad on the club and sets a bad precedent.

 

I know, and to be honest i think the club took the distance and Bale, through his bench antics, lost his victim status that gave him a lot of protection from his own domestic media.

I don't know what happened with the transfer during the summer, but the club staying quiet and not responding has been the best idea right now. Let Bale take all the attention and eventually run the narrantive into the ground.

 

It is noticeable right now that the criticisms of Bale himself are getting more prominent vs the usual dog piling and blaming of RM for the state of the relationship. There has been a shift now that people realize he is just willing to sit and waste years of his career. I am sympathetic to a guy who likes living in Spain and doesn’t want to uproot his family of course. But man, at that level with that much money, you could theoretically make a great life anywhere. So then it comes down to the guy’s actually desire to work hard and play the game.

 

Agreed.

 

Yeah, I think he's just not able to deliver any more and he knows it. All the effort in the world won't change it, it will only make him incapable of being a regular human being in a couple of years. I remember Ismael stepping down from Bayern because he was barely able to hold his daughter up any more.

 

I really don't give a ******** what he has to say.

 

Just wanted to say, i'm not even clicking on that, who even sits like that in an interview.

 

Those three cases (Özil, Sanches, Bale) are simply the first ones. You'll see this happening more and more because of how clubs were throwing out long term lucrative contracts to players all the time. There has been a shift in contract length in other sports, while football has been absolutely obsessed with the 5 year deal and at some point you end up paying for it.

 

Or the only one without the guts to live this through.