It doesn't have to be United though.
Spurs would welcome him with open arms I guess.
Did any of you watch him play recently?
He's lost his pace completely. How would he improve us?
That could work but he needs to want to change as a player and he needs to find his hunger again and I'm not sure how it would work at United with him being under a huge media spotlight.As a number 9/false 9.
Reinventing himself as an out and out goalscorer, the way Ronaldo did, is likely the only way to do it. If at all.
I can see it now, we bring him in, then we have the continued Rooney/Sanchez debate all season about how whatever position he's playing in isn't his best, and how he needs legs around him etc etc
Not only has he lost his pace, he's lost his hunger. Would be a worse signing than Alexis.
I would hate it if we give Madrid a way out and brought him here. I'm as against this as i was Sanchez.
Plus, I'm sure i read on here that he supposedly wants to play as a CF these days?
Ole trying to implement a fitter quicker team who presses more and then having Bale stroll around just doesn't appeal at all. And he's already turned us down twice. Let him and Real enjoy each others company.
Without going through 52 pages of Bale, why is he so unpopular at RM and/or not within Zizou's plans going forward? He's only 29 ... cant have lost his hunger already?
Without going through 52 pages of Bale, why is he so unpopular at RM and/or not within Zizou's plans going forward? He's only 29 ... cant have lost his hunger already?
Unpopular at Madrid because of really bad performances and gigantic wages. Other stuff like he spends all his time golfing and can't speak Spanish is like Lingard and social media, if the performances were good nobody would care.
He might have lost his hunger, 29 is hardly young for a footballer and he will be 30 next month. He's already moved to his dream club, won a huge amount, got one of the cushiest contracts in football... circumstances are certainly right for him to feel he's accomplished enough in his career. Impossible to say for sure though, I think injuries and age are bigger problems. He's been playing first team football since he was 17, 12 years, 550+ games and a lot of injuries later and he's lost a lot physically. His pace is gone, his stamina is gone, Bale used to terrify defenders with his running, how he's harmless. This is why he doesn't want to play as a winger anymore (which is a point the people who advocate us signing him for our RW often ignore).
He does not fit in RM way of playing football.
He is still lethal when finishing and with headers. I could easily see him score 20 goals in PL if he stays fit. Which is another big issue with him. He has been injury prone.
The story with him has been like: Bale is very good, he scores a lot of goals aaaand he gets injured.. Then he is out for 3-4 weeks. He comes back and spend the next 2-3 weeks to come into form again. Plays 3-4 good games and then gets injured again and the story repeat itself.
Now a days he lost pace as well. He was never techincally brilliant.
He seems happy being on the bench. He is paid a lot and although Madrid/Zidane clearly told him to feck off he still wanna hang around for the money.
He is not integrated in the team as well. Some say he is more interested in golf then football. He also cannot speak proper spanish after 6 years in Spain.
For a guy who scored in so many finals he is not very popular.
He does not fit in RM way of playing football.
He is still lethal when finishing and with headers. I could easily see him score 20 goals in PL if he stays fit. Which is another big issue with him. He has been injury prone.
The story with him has been like: Bale is very good, he scores a lot of goals aaaand he gets injured.. Then he is out for 3-4 weeks. He comes back and spend the next 2-3 weeks to come into form again. Plays 3-4 good games and then gets injured again and the story repeat itself.
Now a days he lost pace as well. He was never techincally brilliant.
He seems happy being on the bench. He is paid a lot and although Madrid/Zidane clearly told him to feck off he still wanna hang around for the money.
He is not integrated in the team as well. Some say he is more interested in golf then football. He also cannot speak proper spanish after 6 years in Spain.
For a guy who scored in so many finals he is not very popular.
Without going through 52 pages of Bale, why is he so unpopular at RM and/or not within Zizou's plans going forward? He's only 29 ... cant have lost his hunger already?
I definitely wouldn't want us bringing him in on a big money permanent deal, but a season-long loan would not be too costly (£20m or so in wages) and might therefore be worth the gamble.
Ronaldo enjoyed a pretty turbulent relationship with the Real fans and he is the greatest striker to have ever played for them. I'm pretty sure he averaged (yes averaged) over a goal a game in both La Liga & CL, and that's not even taking in to account his assists. He had a huge salary but he justified it from the day he arrived to the day he left.
Then you have Bale who I think has had a couple of very good seasons mixed in with some long spells on the bench/out of form. By all accounts, he spends not time whatsoever with them team outside of 'work', hasn't tried to learn the language and remains the highest/one of the highest earners despite all this.
Note to Ole, do not touch with barge pole
"When people see Schweinsteiger on the team sheet, that's gonna send some shivers down the spine" Ed Woodward 2015It will be like taking schweinsteiger on board.
The guy played 42 games last season, and that's with being frozen out towards the end of the season.
His injury record is being overplayed.
A loan deal would be pretty risk free.
Well, we still need to pay wages to someone else. Of course much less but if we really want to get Sancho and he is willing to join us next year, I don't think getting Bale for a season would be the worst idea.Its still risk because we are the who paying his wage if report to be believe. Why would we add another astronomical fee on top of overpaid we have already?
