Alvaro Morata, Paul Pogba and Gareth Bale

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Following on from yesterdays howler from Sky Sports who said Juventus striker Alvaro Morata had already re-joined Real madrid comes news that despite Juventus being told Real madrid will invoke the buy-back clause that he could still stay at Juventus if Real Madrid continue their pursuit of Paul Pogba.

He is not for sale and Real Madrid will get a swifty no, but we all know Real Madrid don't take any notice of that and that they need to do their transfer business for the next two seasons during this window. If Real madrid manage to turn Pogba's head and they have not met his wage demands then part of the deal will be that Morata stays at Juventus.

It is not a cut and dried picture. It didn't take long for a British paper to suggest that talks had already started  by Chelsea to bring Morata to Stamford Bridge. Dout very much that there has been a meeting between the two clubs myself.

On th subject of Real Madrid, the patently obvious was being revealed in the British press, that Gareth Bale would be staying at Real Madrid, possibly for life and that he would be the new face of the club. You don't pay for one of the top marketing brands in football and don't then use that asset. He is going to increasingly take over from Cristiano Ronaldo, who let's face it, can't go on forever. The marketing men will have planned ahead and Gareth Bale is a part of that.

There was never any chance of him going to Manchester United or any other club. It was an interesting statistic i the first-half of the Portugal draw, Ronaldo hadn't scored in 60 free-kicks he had taken for Portugal, Bale of course became only the second player to score from two free-kicks. One is in the ascendency right now and one is in the doldrums. How he scored his goals last night I don't know, I turned it over, was rather boring to watch.