Does he still do that stupid hand thing when he scores?
Gareth Bale is...The most expensive player ever?!
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Will we see you here in 5 years time repeating "Personally, I just saw something in Januzaj (Ronaldo) that meant I was more certain (you can never be fully certain) that he'd become great. So I wouldn't have taken such a deal involving Bale (Zidane)"?
Not quite true. Formal offers are often the last step of the transfer process - and made only when all the strings have been tied together, both with the seller club and the player (and his representatives). The intent was clearly there with Edwin in 1999, as it was with Neuer in 2011 and (possibly) Bale in 2013.
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Just watched his interview on the bbc website after the wales game, and noticed something that had me in stiches, he goes "its not about me its about the whole team" and he's in a gareth bale 11 hat xD
The one that Di Maria does? Yes he does.
They should both be made to play in oven gloves
Loads of players do it, isn't it some international symbol of love or peace or something that was started to bridge language barriers in sport?
The last few times I have watched Wales play it's clear Bale gives the team a belief that they can win, thew whole team seems to step up a gear.
The last few times I have watched Wales play it's clear Bale gives the team a belief that they can win, thew whole team seems to step up a gear.
So many started doing it, every fecking time. Gotze came up with a mutated version of XOXO. fecking hell. I like Mullers celebration, just stand and scream.
Can we not just start signing players that really want to play for us again?
Bale would be fantastic, but we do need to buy him now to get a full 6-7 years out of him.
As for Januzaj, its better to look at him as a promising youth player who if he develops, may become a consistent starting XI player, rather than calling him special or comparing him at 18 to Ronaldo at 18 such as some in the Januzaj thread have done. He may become a great player or he may never reach his potential. We can't predict what will happen and nearly all of it will depend on his own aptitude to develop a proper football brain.
As for Januzaj, its better to look at him as a promising youth player who if he develops, may become a consistent starting XI player, rather than calling him special or comparing him at 18 to Ronaldo at 18 such as some in the Januzaj thread have done. He may become a great player or he may never reach his potential. We can't predict what will happen and nearly all of it will depend on his own aptitude to develop a proper football brain.
Probably once we start winning titles we'll get that factor again.
More like an international symbol of being a tit
Best ever was cantonas arrogant what? I know I'm awesome one where he just stood there and looked like a god
#mufc have been told they can sign Gareth Bale as long as David De Gea is included in a deal. [men]
On my phone so can't post the tweet properly, but I'd be against this, unless there is no way to keep De Gea. Id keep De Gea at all costs, but if his heart is set on leaving and we can't do anything about it, I'd take a straight swap probably. Only if there's no way to keep De Gea though.
On my phone so can't post the tweet properly, but I'd be against this, unless there is no way to keep De Gea. Id keep De Gea at all costs, but if his heart is set on leaving and we can't do anything about it, I'd take a straight swap probably. Only if there's no way to keep De Gea though.
I don't want us to lose De Gea so I'd hope this would only be done if he tells the club he wants to leave, but there is no way Real are going to do a straight swap for the most expensive player in football history with a keeper who has a year left on his contract. We'll have to throw in another £60M at least.
They're not having Dave. I don't care if i have to watch Valencia doing his best impression of a one-legged man for the next 2 years, he's going nowhere.
feck the 60m, De Gea is a better keeper then Bale is as a winger, is younger, and there are less quality keepers around. The 1 year left would make it difficult though... Even so, I still wouldn't give too much on top of De Gea, for a player who probably won't be starting every week soon, with James and Isco just being more talented.
Gareth Bale does not want to play for Manchester United, he is playing with one of his idols and a team he was adamant in joining. Unless Real Madrid slash his wages and bench him for half their games he won't leave.
Regardless of how you rate him in regards to Isco and James or in positional comparison to De Gea, that is still roughly the amount we'd have to add to De Gea if the deal was put on the table and De Gea told us he wanted to go.
De Gea's brilliant but it's inevitable he'll go back to Spain and if he's interested in going to Madrid then getting Bale in return is the best we could hope for really.
Unless De Gea signs then he's off in the summer anyway, as there is no way we'll let him go for nothing, might as well get Bale in on the deal if it has to be that way.
He only has two options in Spain and Barca are set for keepers aren't they? So basically it means he'll go the bitter enemies of the club he grew up in. If you're right though I dread to think what we are going to do for a keeper, there aren't many impressive ones out there.
Lets just hope he extends his contract and we keep him for another 4-5 years yet at least.
Most definitely, there are plenty of quality attacking players out there but very few top class keepers.
I would love Bale to come to United - he would be my number one choice ahead of any other player in world football
Sir Alex clearly states this
"I tried to replace Schmeichel, but that was very difficult," Ferguson said. "We went for Fabien Barthez and he did well for a while, but he then had his own situations, so we went for Edwin [2005].
"We really should have gone for him when Schmeichel left, but [former chairman] Martin Edwards had an agreement with Mark Bosnich at the time that took the wind out of our sails. So we couldn't get Edwin, but I'd have loved to have got him then."
That's from SAF's mouth. Nowhere does he state he attempted to sign Edwin in 1999. I have heard the club contacted Edwin but he had already signed with Juventus.
Ouch
Lovely
25 years of age. It's a shame we didn't get him, he's very much a 'poor mans' Ronaldo.
if not for the existence of messi and ronaldo, bale would probably be considered as the best footballer at this moment.
shame we didn't really use giggs to get him in the past. if he is going to leave real, i would consider us the favourite to get him though..
shame we didn't really use giggs to get him in the past. if he is going to leave real, i would consider us the favourite to get him though..
No, he wouldn't.
His current form this season wouldn't even put him in the top 5 Non Messi/Ronaldo group in my opinion.
Would like to see how he'd do if a good team was built around him, though.
Not a chance. He's had a pretty average season so far, maybe his output says otherwise (not sure what his goals and assists are) but performances are barely top 5 in the Real Madrid team.
Aguero, Robben, Suarez are all better than him.
Not at all IMO.
Zlatan, Robben, Suarez, Aguero.
But yeah, he'd be, and is much closer to that lot, then that lot is to the "top 2". If that makes sense.
He definitely needs a team built around him to play at his best, not being 2nd/3rd fiddle somewhere. Just look at how good he was in his last season at Spurs, in what was a fairly average side. I can see Real making him their star man as Ronaldo declines and he hits his peak.
Er no, there's Robben, Agüero, Suarez, Lahm, Hazard and many more.