In the end, it's already super soured this relationship, so nothing is going to be amicable going forward I think.
What next for Gareth Bale?
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Many fans think that he could have been even a better player.
Speaking from ignorance, and saying a random figure, how much can Bale earn a year, salary + sponsors? 35 million euros ?. Could he more or less keep those sponsors if he goes to another team even if he earns 12 instead of 15 for example?
Bale is not a criminal, and the press has been very tough, like the fans, but they have been with everyone. From Benzema, to Cris or Marcelo, whom they want to retire for years.
I have already gone from exaltation to frustration and now I have been installed in indifference for a while, I already assume that he will not move, but I think he could have managed his career and his last years much better
Madrid fans @carvajal @giorno @Vicenterubio are right, Bale has been an overpaid primadonna since day 1. Did well in the cups, but his overall contribution has been way below par for the most expensive player in the world. RM are right to want to get rid, bu Bale is right to want to get paid. The rest is piffles.
Complete lack of professionalism(not just this incident, if this was incident to begin with tbf). No matter what Real Madrid did to him, he is acting like a rich brat. Does he think that any club would take him now? He is basically pissing away his career, and setting bad example to other players around him.
His teammates are also winning the league without him so maybe, just maybe Zidane was completely right about not playing him?
His teammates are also winning the league without him so maybe, just maybe Zidane was completely right about not playing him?
Look at players like Souness and Owen. They too have won it all, but it rattles them constantly that the supporters of the teams they did it with have no love for them.
They spend their days sucking up to Liverpool in the hopes that they can turn it around.
Souness in particular was a far better player than Bale and a key member of a side that dominated Europe, but choices afterwards chipped away at his legacy with the fans. I listened to an interview recently where he was visibly emotional as he talked about his mistakes.
Trophies and accolades can matter little when you realize fans remember you as a someone they disliked who scored a few important goals, rather than a player who always gave his all for the shirt. Rightly or wrongly.
True, Madrid fans can be overly demanding and, at times, fickle, but he will regret wasting prime years there as a laughing stock. He has the ability to be more than that. Just an opinion of course.
A hair transplant.
Bale has played the third most minutes of any forwards this season in the league. Whatever the relationship, he's been given his chances, same as anyone else. He's been crap, that's all there is to it
Still doesn't make sense to freeze him out
Same
Well now, he was amazing in 13/14 and 15/16. Did well after getting back to fitness and into the team in the second half of 17/18. 14/15 and 18/19 were disappointing and 16/17 he was injured so much he barely had a chance to contribute, but was generally good the few games he was fit
He's been below par because of injuries. Though i think based on the last two seasons, he looks done as a top player
Has he justified the money outlay for Madrid? He was brought in for Cristiano Ronaldo money.
Other wingers (Robben, Ribery) get injured and still contribute a lot to the team. Bale's been very sporadic, takes a while to warm up, plays amazing for 4-5 games gets injured for 2 months. Rinse and repeat.
In the end, Bale non vale.
Hot take - if he joined Man Utd he would have been the legend. He was not bad at Real Madrid - quite decent, but always in a shadow. More of like very important player than a great player. Would have been much more in United I think. But I hope the day comes when Real Madrid can't just buy players the way they have been buying them past 25 years.
I'm much better informed than you are.
Spectacular, good on you.
I don't understand the people that are labelling Madrid as the enemy here. Do people realise that when he signed his last contract, Bale was the best paid player in the world. More than Messi and Ronaldo.
Bale has never achieved what was expected of him. And I can not understand why he would behave so childishly on the bench. If he hates it so much, Madrid would happily sell him to another team.
Bale has never achieved what was expected of him. And I can not understand why he would behave so childishly on the bench. If he hates it so much, Madrid would happily sell him to another team.
Yep, totally bales fault how much Madrid paid him in his contract.
And actually no, they won’t just sell him to another team, as we’ve already seen
What? No, Bale was never the best paid player in the world. He was never even the best paid player at real madrid until Cristiano left
That contract was signed in 2016 though
I'll quote myself here "The only thing i'm not sure about is the lenght. Think we should have extended him up to 2020, his injury record is too much of a risk". Bale was the 5th best player in the world at the time, coming off a huge first half of the year and an incredible performance at the euros
That contract was signed in 2016 though
I'll quote myself here "The only thing i'm not sure about is the lenght. Think we should have extended him up to 2020, his injury record is too much of a risk". Bale was the 5th best player in the world at the time, coming off a huge first half of the year and an incredible performance at the euros
Hard to place him, he’s been a key figure in 3 CL title wins which is almost unprecedented. Yet you still feel he could have done more. Doubt he’s going to have much regrets looking back. He’s not even that interested in football.
More than all this stuff about morality, it doesn't reflect well on Bale's legacy to be a player to be such an unwanted figure at Madrid. I believe he's overrated by fans who emphasise far too much on Wales and the odd CL match, and would definitely pick Giggs other him. Madrid were even in good shape before Zidane turned things around. Wouldn't that have been the perfect moment for him to become the main man post Ronaldo. Instead it was Benzema who took on that torch with Bale playing clown.
Bale is clearly a player who plays football for the money whilst not enjoying what he is doing. He has no interest in getting fully fit and working his way back into the team.
He is the sort of player you do not want in your squad, seems like a toxic personality. An experienced player like him should be a role model to the Asensio, Vinicious etc.
I do agree with some posts, his career is filled with great individual moments such as CL finals, Copa De Rey etc and has barely produced it for one full season.
He is the sort of player you do not want in your squad, seems like a toxic personality. An experienced player like him should be a role model to the Asensio, Vinicious etc.
I do agree with some posts, his career is filled with great individual moments such as CL finals, Copa De Rey etc and has barely produced it for one full season.
Third most minutes? He's played 1000, the equivalent of just over 10-12 games. Doesn't seem like a lot unless the others have played very little too?
He has 3 goals this season. So glad we came to our senses and didn't pursue him
I thought he might scoot off to Inter Miami at somepoint. Lots of nice golf courses in that part of the world. Florida not looking like such an attractive destination right now though.
Yes
I think he cares about playing actual matches and enjoys those but doesn't have much of an interest in everything else. It doesn't help that at Madrid he gets a lot of stick from everyone but he also didn't help himself by isolating away from everyone.
I think when you play for Madrid, you have to be ready to be criticised. They were getting on the backs of legends such as Casillas and Ronaldo.
It doesn't help when the club captain comes out and says things that Ramos did.
Ofcourse, Bale has been injured for alot of the time at Real, but I do agree he has not helped himself as he has been accused of not integrating with the squad.
As we can see with United at the moment, squad morale is key.
Only fans care about "legacy". Footballers simply do, and Bale has loads of medals and is a national hero.
When you have a ‘galatico’ policy you will invariably end up hiring temperamental mercenaries like Bale, just as we’ve found out with the likes of Di Maria and Sánchez. I have no sympathy for Madrid or Bale for this loveless Union.
I dare say it will take Florida at least 6 months and probably more to get its COVID-19 issue under control.
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And how many of you know so much of what bale thinks about football
And how many of you know so much of what bale thinks about footballWell, the less they 'do' the worse they'll be compare to others. Essentially you're not as good a footballer as you otherwise could have been if you spend years on your bum doing feck all.
He wont go to another team that does not pay him what he gets now - Therefore he cant complain when he is benched.
Maybe I am wrong but I am sure the headline was that he was being paid the most. When Bale signed his contract (Oct 2016), Ronaldo was still on the contract signed in 2013. He went on to renew a month later though...
He’s not complaining, you are. He’s having a laugh
Cristiano's 2013 contract was still bigger than Bale's in 2016
He's clearly lost love for football and has a lack of ambition now, if he had ambition he'd be demanding a transfer or accepting a lesser wage elsewhere to continue his career.
Instead, he's happy with his life in Madrid and he's not willing to budge on the rumoured 400k/500k a week wage he's getting.
Instead, he's happy with his life in Madrid and he's not willing to budge on the rumoured 400k/500k a week wage he's getting.
Nothing wrong with happily collecting what he's entitled to, especially since he's more than earned it. What I don't understand though is why Madrid insist on giving him the blacklist treatment instead of working out a solution like adults. I'd be disappointed if we suddenly antagonized Sanchez for no reason and alienated him, making life difficult for both of us.
I doubt anyone wants him to be honest. Holding the Wales, Golf, Madrid flag just shows how much of a tool he is.
Why don't Madrid do what we did with Sanchez? Ask someone to pay a portion of his wages and slag him off. It seemed that last summer they were expecting someone to pay a transfer fees and pay him huge wages/Bale to take a massive pay cut.
Bale may end losing some reputation with fans but why should he care? It was Madrid who decided to give him a huge contract till 2022. If he's unable to play at that level anymore, he's still within his right to collect the wages promised to him and live in a city where he and his family are settled. If anything, their version of Ed Woodward should be under fire for their contract handling process.
Bale may end losing some reputation with fans but why should he care? It was Madrid who decided to give him a huge contract till 2022. If he's unable to play at that level anymore, he's still within his right to collect the wages promised to him and live in a city where he and his family are settled. If anything, their version of Ed Woodward should be under fire for their contract handling process.
Exactly, and then people wonder why Bale as most interest at Madrid. That’s totally different to losing interest in football
Golf and retirement
What surprises me is.. How do you go from his level of hunger to what he's like now?
I personally admire him for it. He's given Madrid some great memories but has been treated like shit since he got there.
But he wasn't that highly rated once upon a time as a seemingly mediocre full back. He obviously had to be incredibly hungry to bulk up the way he did and turn into an absolute machine of a left winger. Then he pushed for a move to Madrid.
How do you revert back to this? Playing golf, taking the piss, not caring that you're not fulfilling your potential. I know in terms of honours he has, but he could've been the main man at Madrid right now surely?
He was once widely regarded to be in that Ronaldo category of hunger, utterly obsessed with becoming the best.
It is a bit strange. Maybe he fell in love with golf? Loves Spain too much to want to move? Hates Madrid enough and just loves having a laugh at their expense? Has it in for Zizou?
I personally admire him for it. He's given Madrid some great memories but has been treated like shit since he got there.
But he wasn't that highly rated once upon a time as a seemingly mediocre full back. He obviously had to be incredibly hungry to bulk up the way he did and turn into an absolute machine of a left winger. Then he pushed for a move to Madrid.
How do you revert back to this? Playing golf, taking the piss, not caring that you're not fulfilling your potential. I know in terms of honours he has, but he could've been the main man at Madrid right now surely?
He was once widely regarded to be in that Ronaldo category of hunger, utterly obsessed with becoming the best.
It is a bit strange. Maybe he fell in love with golf? Loves Spain too much to want to move? Hates Madrid enough and just loves having a laugh at their expense? Has it in for Zizou?