I think he's definitely got something lined up. It's all a bit too quiet for my liking. There's a get out of jail free card coming somewhere.
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I think he's definitely got something lined up. It's all a bit too quiet for my liking. There's a get out of jail free card coming somewhere.
Everton, Woolwich and Wolves all on an upward trajectory i'm sorry to say. We're heading in the other direction.
#ENICOUT
It is quite funny when we have hojberg, sissoko & winks in midfield. But when thinking of possible signings, we say coutinho? Hmmm not feeling that one. James? Is he still around? I like our deluded cheekyness.
Speaking of which - I understand the logic of letting the transfer window run until early October based on how delayed the conclusion to the season was, but as soon as it was announced I just knew it would let Levy drag our business on unacceptably late.Waiting for October 5 to come:
He's a bit like an undergrad with an essay deadline. Baldie will procrastinate and then produce something, albeit underwhelming, after pulling a Red-Bull fuelled all nighter.
Another season started half cocked disgrace Jose won't be here next year of we don't sort it out and neither will Son and Kane.
Apologists will still defend this shambles though no doubt
Apologists will still defend this shambles though no doubt
If this is somehow true, which I doubt, and something could be worked out with wages, just do it. No matter what happens this year, we can say, “well, at least we got Bale back...so there’s that I suppose. Which is nice.”
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Don't get me wrong. So am I.
But you can't buy every player with sell on value. Sometimes you need a quick fix now. And the central midfield area is something we need now. Not someone who's going to grow into it, because we have players like Skipp, Bowden, White and Devine for that.
We need a striker. We need a creative midfielder. We need a LB. But most importantly, we need a new manager.
Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli) anyone know about this guy ? says we are finalising a deal ?
Does this mean they would accept that much in payment of his wages? It's not clear what some of this back and forth means.
Real owe Bale something to the tune of 60 million Euro pre-tax over the remaining two years of his deal.
Real want rid and it seems unlikely that anyone is willing to pay 60 million for two years of a 31-year-old Gareth Bale.
So then it's a question of who is willing to take the most of that financial liability off of Real's hands?
By far the simplest way to structure that deal would be to just do a two-year loan with Real retaining however much of the salary obligation the winning bidder won't be paying. A transfer fee would be beside the point, you could do a transfer fee, but it's just putting the same money in one bucket instead of another (maybe there are tax benefits, I dunno).
The one thing that would shake this up of course would be if Bale were willing to tear up his deal. But based on everything we know and have heard, that seems extremely unlikely, and he'd be losing out on a ton of money.
United landing him on Deadline Day for a snip in lieu of Sancho because Spurs won't pay up would be an outcome that's terrible for Real, Spurs, United, and probably Bale himself, and would be the perfect expression of everything about both Levy and Woodward, so I'm putting my money down on that being what happens.
That answered that for me then ! Cheers Totti
Been discussed ad nauseam on loads of threads.