Throwing a Curve Ball - Bale
THBN Tottenham Transfer Talk - Gareth Bale
I saw a headline that Real Madrid were looking to the MLS to offload Gareth Bale, although they have salary caps there and a recession so can anyone afford him?
Have Real Madrid shot themselves in the foot trying to sell him then refusing to let him go?
His contract runs out in 2022 and, at this stage, they are unlikely to offer him a new contract. Zinidine Zidane is not a fan and has tried to push him out.
Could we be getting to the point where a world recession means he has to lower his wage demands?
Would that bring him within our scope?
Would his presence boost our marketing appeal at a time when it might dwindle and businesses have to think twice before entering into new sponsorship deals or commercial partnerships or any other name you care to call them?
Would Gareth Bale and Heung-min Son together make us a marketing powerhouse in Asia? Would that help to increase our fan base and thus appeal to Asian sponsors like out current shirt sponsor?
I know we have discussed his situation a lot and looked at the finances it would take to make such a deal happen and rejected the idea each time. He might have been off their hands if they had lowered their transfer fee demands.
Clubs can't afford a huge fee and huge wages. I a recession that becomes eve worse so will they have to let him leave for free and does that make him financially viable?
Yes he has had a lot of injuries but so has Danny Ings and he has been banging in the goals for Southampton. Bale is 30 years old, 31 in July and started only 41% of games this season, Danny Ings is 27 years old, 28 in July and has started 79% of Saints games.
Would the Welshman be worth a few years back at Spurs? Opinion will certainly be divided on that.
It has never been realistic before but when it dawns on people that we will be moving into a new financial climate then who knows, it might become a more realistic proposition.
By looking to go to the USA or China, Bale is not considering his football, but his earning potential off the pitch and personal commercial deals. If he is now so money orientated, then perhaps he will remain out of reach.
He says that football is just a business, all he wants to do is spend time playing golf with his friends. That is someone who has lost their focus, another player who should be working with a sport psychologist to get it back.
At Spurs, it was his dream to play for Real Madrid, his dream from childhood. Well he achieved it and now he has relaxed, he is there he doesn't have to bother seems to be the mentality.
This echoes many a youth player who get too much too early and don't think they have to put the effort it, they feel entitled, like Marcus Edwards and Josh Onomah.
Harry Kane shows the opposite mentality, one always striving to improve.
A club needs 25 players with the Harry Kane approach. The more you have the better and more successful your club will be. It really is that simple.
However, finding those players isn't. You are using a crystal ball when assessing a players mantality and leaving it to amateurs is simply compounding the problem.
Reducing the risk in any transfer is of paramount importance, yet in the most important area, we don't take it seriously, thus we get more wrong than we would if we took a more professional approach and continued that professional approach as part of the weekly training.
Zinidine Zidane is an example. A manager who has a player who has lost mental focus and he can't seem to do anything about it with his amateur psychology approach. The player knows the manager doesn't want him, the fans don't want him, he doesn't want 80,000 fans booing him and thinks they should be cheering him to help.
It is so amateur it is untrue. Get a psychologist in the sort the issue out, it's their job, they are the professionals, why, oh why would you not use them to their fullest?
It simply doesn't make any sense not to when you have an asses (player) worth £80m or more.
They could help a new signing settle in a new country, in a new culture, in a new style of football. They become a focus point for all your troubles, someone to offload to, leaving solely concentrated on achieving your goal and importantly, enjoying the journey.
If all Bale wants to do is play golf, then China or the MLS are going to get a shadow of a player who will produce a flash of brilliance here and there and live off his reputation, rather than achieve new heights.
The man is only 30, not 35.
Is a player who has lost the will to perform find it at a new club or would the novelty soon wear off and you are left with an expensive player who would rather be on the golf course?
As a club, in the present way things are done, you would be taking a wild guess. Is tat sensible?
He says that football is just a business, all he wants to do is spend time playing golf with his friends. That is someone who has lost their focus, another player who should be working with a sport psychologist to get it back.
At Spurs, it was his dream to play for Real Madrid, his dream from childhood. Well he achieved it and now he has relaxed, he is there he doesn't have to bother seems to be the mentality.
This echoes many a youth player who get too much too early and don't think they have to put the effort it, they feel entitled, like Marcus Edwards and Josh Onomah.
Harry Kane shows the opposite mentality, one always striving to improve.
A club needs 25 players with the Harry Kane approach. The more you have the better and more successful your club will be. It really is that simple.
However, finding those players isn't. You are using a crystal ball when assessing a players mantality and leaving it to amateurs is simply compounding the problem.
Reducing the risk in any transfer is of paramount importance, yet in the most important area, we don't take it seriously, thus we get more wrong than we would if we took a more professional approach and continued that professional approach as part of the weekly training.
Zinidine Zidane is an example. A manager who has a player who has lost mental focus and he can't seem to do anything about it with his amateur psychology approach. The player knows the manager doesn't want him, the fans don't want him, he doesn't want 80,000 fans booing him and thinks they should be cheering him to help.
It is so amateur it is untrue. Get a psychologist in the sort the issue out, it's their job, they are the professionals, why, oh why would you not use them to their fullest?
It simply doesn't make any sense not to when you have an asses (player) worth £80m or more.
They could help a new signing settle in a new country, in a new culture, in a new style of football. They become a focus point for all your troubles, someone to offload to, leaving solely concentrated on achieving your goal and importantly, enjoying the journey.
If all Bale wants to do is play golf, then China or the MLS are going to get a shadow of a player who will produce a flash of brilliance here and there and live off his reputation, rather than achieve new heights.
The man is only 30, not 35.
Is a player who has lost the will to perform find it at a new club or would the novelty soon wear off and you are left with an expensive player who would rather be on the golf course?
As a club, in the present way things are done, you would be taking a wild guess. Is tat sensible?
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