Glass Dragons Still Breathe Fire - The Gareth Bale Thread

You can scratch off China as a retirement place for older players.
If he moves, it will be to the US. My guess he'll fit right in with Beckham's new team.

 

This is false.

Bale would have been sold to China.

FLORENTINO changed his mind after the atleti preseason match and forced him to stay on Zidane.

Hence why I continually speculate contract obligations are forcing Zidane to put him on teamsheets and give him certain amount of appearances.

This isn't speculation. It is fact.

 

No, it has been the club.

 

Stop twisting and turning.

Here is the full interview with Bale's agent where he states clearly Bale was going to leave for a lot of money and the club killed the deal.

You always try to paint a picture that it's Bale who refuses to leave but that has always been false.

It is Florentino continually making the error in forcing Bale upon us.

 

It will be if our President keeps barring him from leaving.

 

We dont want him but nobody wants to pay his salary and a fair transfer fee on top of that. I dont know if he wants to leave or not, but even if we get offers for him, at what point is it better to just have him as an option rather than pay someone else to have him.

I dont see him regaining his position here, but I also understand why the club has seen it makes no financial sense to sell him either.

 

China might have been the only move he thought of making.

He certainly vetoed moving to United. I get the impression he and his family are comfortable in Madrid.

 

He costs the club around €30M in wages per season. That is too expensive to be a below average, nonchalant, toothless in attack backup.

Besides "we" do what him. At least Florentino Perez does because he is the one who killed his transfer to China.

The rest of us included Zidane (well not 4x4s lol) do not want him and wanted him gone for a while.

Florentino decides and that is that.

 

So as stated before it is false to say Bale is forcing his will on the club, it is the club (Florentino) which forced Bale on us.

There is no need to justify this, it was a horrible mistake and we were better off going into the season without Bale and with the extra €30+ million in total wages then with Bale and without that cash.

 

I thought Hazard's price was unreasonable, but I believed he could help make the difference. I can admit I was wrong.

We wasted €100M.

The Bale situation was obvious. The manager isn't a fan of the player anymore. The player has given a "******** you" to the club and fans. The only person who actually still sees any value in Bale is Florentino. Well and you lol.

 

We aren't comparing wrong decisions so why are you attempting to make that the subject?

What we are talking about is how it is false to say Bale forced his stay when the reality is that it was Florentino. It has always been Florentino with Bale.

Bale is a virus in Madrid's body which Florentino won't quarantine or vaccinate away.

He has no future value and is one of many bad decisions which the club made this past summer.

 

I felt it was situation appropriate

 

Hazard was a bad decision because he got injured twice. He is historically not injury prone, and we definitely could've used him this season. If we go back to summer 2019, I would still think it's a good move, even if its 20/30 million too much.

 

This is 100% correct

 

It was.

Anyways the original discussion was you deny Florentino made this mistake and he was the one who did.