Bale the one commercially viable player we could buy


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Brazilian Neymar going to PSG will mean an increase in commercial revenue for the French club, he is a marketing asset, which makes one wonder about another marketing asset, Welshman Gareth Bale.

Real Madrid it seems really want 18-year-old (19 in December) French international Kylian Mbappé and he wants them. Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City it seems don't interest him and why would they when one of the two Spanish giants come a calling.

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It is reported that Real Madrid will have to raise the transfer money and that one of their strikers will have to leave. While Bale doesn't want to leave, he has only managed 20-odd games each of the past two seasons because of injuries. The view of the Spanish press is that 28-year-old (29 next July) Bale could raise £90.37 million (€100m - AUS$149.43m - US$118.84m).

He signed a new contract in October that tied him to Madrid until 2022 but the CIES Football Observatory give his current transfer value in this market as £56.04 million (€62m - AUS$672.46m - US$73.68m).

According to the Sun newspaper he has a £450 million release clause, although they were probably just being lazy and meant euros, £406.76 million (€450m - AUS$92.62m - US$534.37m), if not then his release clause would be 500 euros, £451.77 million (€500m - AUS$747.17m - US$593.74m).

Spurs have first refusal on him so have to be informed of any offers accepted for him and given the chance to match it. He is a genuine superstar, one player we could pay more than anyone else and recoup through increased commercial revenue.

Daily Mail article from 2014: Bale to earn £2.5m from Far East jolly (one week trip)

He has the commercial global appeal than only a handful of players have and if his contract were tied in with marketing efforts and some of his income were for off the field marketing promotion of the club. They can't get enough of him in Asia.

CIES Bale ratings: 1009 minutes in 14 matches from 2/10/2016 to 23/04/2017


He isn't going to happen, but he is the one world class player we could buy who would pay for himself, the rest we would have to pay for.


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