Real Madrid fans have shown several times in the past their impatience and stupidity. They're not known for having the most supportive fans when things are going tough.
Gareth Bale is...The most expensive player ever?!
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Crazy money. It will be interesting at least to see how they fit both Ronaldo and Bale in the one team considering they basically play the same role.
Yeah, but they don't care about money that much. I don't think they ever blamed Kaka because of his price tag. He was shit and when he was benched, no one cared about it anymore, while they consistently disliked Khedira, who was a really cheap buy. If you play and you excite people at Real, then they love you, doesn't depend on your price tag, imo.
He'll be suited to La Liga. Madrid still probably paid more than double what he's worth though, Levy is a genius.
He deserves an award.
I haven't really followed this (or any other transfer story) much, but did Real even bother at any point to put in a not completely insane bid? Surely Levy wouldn't have turned up his nose at £60m? This is just Real swinging their dick around, presumably.
Of course he would. He could have sold him to someone else for more than that.
Con artist of the year.
Like who? £60m would have made him the second most expensive player ever and is already more than he's worth. Nobody on Earth predicted Bale would go for this much, and not in their wildest dreams did Spurs fans hope for this kind of money. The whole thing makes absolutely no sense, at least until you remember what a bunch of lunatics Real Madrud are. It reeks of them making a statement by massively overpaying for the only world class player that was available to them.
Seriously though, Levy is very good at his job. He's done exceptionnally well this summer and given AVB all the necessary tools to push forward.
Only thing is I don't see us offering 300k a week, which is a completely ludicrous amount and (maybe?) sets a precedent for the future for world class players.
Barca aren't saints by any means but I would like for them to beat Madrid to the title (again) and Copa del Rey.
That is just not true, take this story picked at random - from Sky - http://news.sky.com/story/1133346/gareth-bale-real-madrid-bid-has-mystery-rival
If you cant be bothered to read it, it predicted £86m as the fee last week - so less than what it turned out to be, but still way above £60m - while also indicating another club were sniffing around. That could have been PSG, us, Chelsea, City or probably a number of other clubs besides. I imagine if you go through the last 20-30 pages on this thread there would be plenty of people predicting things would turn out much as they have.
£60m for Bale would not be a bad deal at all, he is young, talented and very marketable. Yes, Real do overpay for players but this whole thing has been pretty predictable really.
Mockney 
I obviously meant before the summer.
OK then. Take these from nearly 18 months ago. I dug these out fast. Honestly, there will be plenty more where these came from, going back way beyond this summer, both inside these forums and out.
Maybe in a few years we'll think that paying £80m for a player like Bale is cheap.
Dixon presumably already thinks so. But then, that might well explain why Dixon is not a manager.
Eh? Neither of those is a remotely serious suggestion that Bale would go for a world record.
Dunno if he can live up to that price tag, but he will the Spanish fullbacks a new one.
Lets see how Carlo accommodates him, Ronaldo, Isco, di Maria and Ozil together.
Lets see how Carlo accommodates him, Ronaldo, Isco, di Maria and Ozil together.
Has anyone seen a figure for how much Real Madrid's squad cost to put together btw? Could now be the first half billion quid group of footballers.
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/real-madrid/kader/verein_418.html
So in answer to your question, a little under half a billion in sterling terms, a little over in euros.
So in answer to your question, a little under half a billion in sterling terms, a little over in euros.
That's not how much they spend. Those are only numbers made up by lots of users about how much the players should be worth in their opinion.
Oh right, I thought that was their market values. Fair enough.
Hmm, they might finally reach a European final now.
Bale will only add £30m to the value of the whole team because he came at the exact same day when £55m Kaka left them.
Bale £85m
Ronaldo £80m
Modric £30m
Alonso £30m
Pepe £30m
Coentrao £30m
Di Maria £35m
Benzema £35m
Ramos £20m
Illarramendi £30m
You got £405m there alone. Add players like Varane, Arbeloa, Khedira etc. and it may well reach £500m.
Just a club full of transfer muppets.He wouldve been a good signing for us IMO. Not the vital one we needed. But he wouldve improved the team. It is important to maintain the tradition of having Wales' best player in our ranks.
Yeah and the biggest muppet is their president Florentino Perez.
Spurs would never sell to us. I said once that the only way he was going to ever play for United was if he moved to Madrid or Barca and failed there. He's made step 1, time for step 2.
Perez is the yin to Woodward's yang. On their own, transfer business can never be stable. Together they symbolise muppet harmony.
Did Ronaldo get a stage?
hes not.
Ronnie is.
Also, imo its really erroneous to only look at the transfer sum. One of the 'talents' MAdrid have is that they look at the spend and income over the entire contract period. This is why for example Florentino would argue that Bale is a economically better acquistion than Neymar was, whome 'only' cost Euro57m.
You bet, and he filled the entire stadium
Was his stage bigger?
Bale passes his Madrid medical and yet has been injured since pre-season matches!!