I doubt Spurs are paying much of Bale's wages, like, seriously small amount, Real love to get rid of dead weight as cheap as possible while withholding true figures... if you are putting him on your list, you should be doing it on the basis of basically costing jack shit. Because if Real have agreed to allow it to be reported at 40%(250k possibly).... it's probably less than half that, they've gained from not having his distraction, and well, he's done okay-ish if you ignore his reputation(which i know is hard to do) for Spurs.
I'd say take your pick from the Chelsea bigs or Thiago really.... they've gone backwards, United/City haven't so I'm putting them over vdB and/or Ake. Though all but vdB and Ake would likely recoup good money... maybe vdB too, so in that sense, Ake or Brewster?
