I'm sure he was injured for a long time, which commenced a period of being in and out of the side. Was very low on confidence, but to his credit beefed himself up and took his opportunity when played in midfield.
He'll cope, Ronnie is a good lad who would not sulk.
There seems to be some people on here who genuinely think that the club havent got the forsight to plan what they do going forward - as if its football manager and there'll be no budget left to bring in another player later on in the window. Its as if they think the highly paid executives are going to accidently blow the full budget on one player and have their trousers taken down.
Beckham didn't do half bad there, and Owen I believe had the best goals to minutes in La Liga while there - they just didn't play him enough.
Seems not to matter. They sign players and then generate huge sums on the back of them. He was a bust but they've had more successes than failures in big money deals it would seem.
Yeah, really good British player
Yeah exactly, I'd say given Spanish fans love of chimps and circus animals, and heart shaped hand signals, and cnuts, that Real will sell around 9,400,000 Bale shirts within in a month. Now, I'm no expert of Mathematics, but that's them making back the £94,000,000 straight away. Unreal business by Real imo.
Oops. Well he came from the Prem so that means he's British, right?
Yeah I blame us for not getting every single talented youngsterFFS, this has to be a WUM, surely?
What next, are people going to blame us for not completing the signing of EVERY talented youngster int he world?
Our record isn't exactly great is it, that has been down to the staff we've employed previously though e.g Kenyon.Well it's ridiculous for you to have a go at the club for failing to sign bale from Southampton. He wasn't even a regular in the Spurs side for the best part of 2-3 years. So I don't see how your comment "we could have gotten him for cheap before Spurs" has any relevance whatsoever.Yeah I blame us for not getting every single talented youngster
The record I was referring to was not just for youngsters but for other players as well. In recent years we've not really had the youngsters coming through like we should have, Cleverley, Welbeck and Evans are in the current squad who play most games but we should have more and should be giving more a chance. Anyway this is about Bale, I agree £90m is ridiculous and he is not worth that, but RM are stupid with their money anyway.
Yet the precious Champions League continues to elude them?
Not really true. Everybody with any sense knew the losing streak was just coincidence and not particularly his fault. He certainly want ripping up trees, but we're talking about a teenager (or just older) playing his first few premier league games.
Nobody was exactly tipping him for stardom either way, rather the opposite.
He hasn't. Like all young talents he's improved over time and become a very good footballer.
Highly paid executives may make mistakes, and it's reasonable for people to ask the question. But fans placing arbitrary sums on players as valuations is what I don't get, as if a suitable player becomes a waste of money because he cost two million more than some fan (with no experience of football other than watching) thinks he should.
The purchase of Kaka and Ronaldo led to an immediate renegotiation of their Adidas kitdeal and a huge increase in their income from it. They did the same with their other sponsors and recruited a few new ones.
Not sure who he is but getting the vibe he's RAWK's answer to Indykaila? ..
They haven't been in a final for 11 years.
Always wondered why they don't just make their own shirts...unless nike lose money in the sponsorship deal in a loss leader kind of way...
