Ridiculous Money For Bale

[bibblebub]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/transfer-news-tottenham-accept-93mincluding-fabio-coentrao-offer-from-real-madrid-for-gareth-bale--reports-8776888.html

It is now strongly reported that a Real Madrid offer of £93m plus a left back for Gareth Bale is about to be accepted by Spurs.

Real Madrid have always splashed the money around, knowing that the banks aren't going to refuse them, but this must be the most ridiculous transfer fee of all time.

[tonyav]

I agree bibblebub, totally ridiculous, and this will inflate a lot of transfer fee's imo.

[bibblebub]

You're probably right, unless other teams decide that it's Real Madrid and they're just bonkers.

[hippyhoppy]

Or even 'Bail'... I'll get me coat...

[hippyhoppy]

Oh - I'm rubbish... Ignore me...

[bibblebub]

already done

[Mattk]

I reckon this deal was done some time back. As Shearer pointed out, Spurs have already spent the transfer fee.

[bibblebub]

But would they have expected to get quite as much as it now seems that they'll receive?

[Mattk]

Don't think so but they were expecting £80m odd. So 13m for all the players they have bought is a very good deal.

Providing all the new players gel they have to be serious contenders for top 4 this year.

[bibblebub]

AVB won't be too popular if they aren't

[Mattk]

His job for sure. He's probably got until Xmas.

[VHG]

>Ridiculous Money....

The same was said when Jimmy Greaves went for nearly £100,000, and later it was said when Alan Shearer went for £15 million.

You only have to look at how much interest (and money) players like Messi and Ronaldo generate to see why some teams pay this sort of money.

[bibblebub]

I remember very clearly when Trevor Francis became the first £1m player (or did he?), and now you'd only get a donkey for that amount.

Bale reaching the same level of performance in Spanish football as Messi or Ronaldo? Doubt it imo.

[LazyGun]

VHGs comments reminded me just how spectacular the rise in transfer fees has been. Few assets can have appreciated just as much in such a short time.

I would broadly agree with other points mentioned. Probably a done deal, given Spurs summer spending, and AVB is putting his job on the line no question. If they do well, then he is a canny player of the transfer market; If Spurs miss out on CL qualification then he is useless.

On a more general note though- someone has to pay for all of this. Broadcasting rights paid to the Premiership now total around 3billion. We are told that tickets for the World Cup in Brazil next year are going to be above 600 squid. It's the fans attending the grounds who are being gouged for seat prices, all of the rest of us paying inflated monthly subscriptions to Sky etc which fuels this ridiculous inflation.

And if the Premiership is the richest league in the world, how is that Real Madrid can afford to pay such transfer fees?

[Ric.ror]

Cristiano repaid the money in shirt sales within three months - not sure if Bale has the same 'glamour' attached as he has though

[Stephen_G]

Guillem Balague (Sky Sports Spanish correspondent) just tweeted that the deal for Bale could be close to being completed - 93 million Euros and Spurs get Fábio Coentrão. Sounds like the I's have to be dotted and the T's to be crossed.

[bibblebub]

Ah, Euros would make more sense because €93m works out at about £80m - the fee that has been bandied about before now - so I wonder if the £93m figure has originated from someone who assumed the wrong currency.

[doctordb]

Lg, Real madrid are a members club and therefore avoid paying vast amounts of tax, this allows them to pay these huge fees. The spanish government are looking to stop this loophole.

ps. its the cost of average players like lescott, millner, bent and fellaini that i find staggering.

[bibblebub]

and then there are the salaries, being paid in a single year several times what the average person will earn for a lifetime of work

[douglas9401]

Insanity, pure and simple.

[ChillDoubt]

Frankly, that is shocking.
And given the current economic climate in Spain I fail to see how any football club is able to even attempt to justify it.