Spurs could have a fight on their hands keeping hold of Gareth Bale after the winger admitted he prefers playing in the Champions League to the more ‘defensive’ Premiership.
The PFA player of the season has been linked with a move to United although, Real Madrid remain favourites to sign him as the Spanish giants have been reportedly preparing a record-breaking bid to bring the former Southampton star to the Bernabéu.
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Bale said:
“When you play in the Premier League against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time,”
“They set up to block you off.
“But when you play in the Champions League, all the teams are used to winning every week so it’s more of an open attacking game, it’s end-to-end.”
“The music is a massive thing.
“When we first got into the Champions League, it was one of the things most of the lads were looking forward to, hearing it in the stadium.
“It’s things like that which make it special.”
Whether Spurs will sell their prized-asset remains to be seen, but should the winger decide he doesn’t want to stay at White Hart Lane then chairman Daniel Levy will without doubt want a massive fee for one of the world’s most sought after players. United can offer Bale the chance to play in the Champions League without moving abroad, something which he may prefer especially with a young family to think about.
Should he come down to a bidding war though, there’s little chance United can compete with Madrid who’ve a track record for signing the world’s most expensive players. Spurs fans seem confident that Bale will give them one more season, but if he loves the Champions League that much, he may just decided it’s one season too many. Watch this space…..
Oh dear. Bales going nowhere, do you really think a player like him is going to do anything but increase in value? We’re gonna get as much out of him as possible! GK- Lloris RB- Walker CB- Kaboul CB- Vertonghen LB- A fit Assou-Ekotto RM- Lennon CM- Sandro CM- Paulinho CAM- Bale/Dembele LM- Bale/Townsend ST- Villa then players like Holtby, Rose, Dempsey, Adebayor, Defoe, Caulker, Siggurdson, Parker, Huddlestone, Dawson plus stars from our youth team (we have a few!) that’s 24 players and only a muppet would argue against any of them being good quality. Even you lot struggled to deal with our quality last year and we’re set to improve massively again, everyone knows tottenham are the club to watch and bale wants to be a part of it
Desperate reporting. Read the article and you’ll see it is not a hint at all, just a newspaper taking a magazine interview and twisting it to try and make it mean something it isn’t.
The arrogance of Man Utd fans is astounding.You lot are so presumptuous it makes me sick.The guy who owns Bales contract has stated he is NOT for sale for sale for ANY price.Bale hasn’t asked to leave because he isn’t thinking about it so why should he put in a request to do so or make a statement stating otherwise just for you lots benefit? He’s staying at Spurs.We have him signed for 3 years at least as of now and in 3 years a lot can happen,especially if we keep bringing in players like Paulinho to play along side the likes of Sandro and Dembele.With Bale and either Gilfy,Dempsey or Lennon or even Holtby and a new striker just to convert the many chances we make already,we will be a force.You know this to be true already as we took four points off you last season with a lesser team who weren’t even as used to playing with each other yet! Bale hasn’t hinted at all that he want’s to leave.That’s just your wishful thinking.Even £80 m8il (which you couldn’t afford) wouldn’t get him.Levy knows that even with that amount of money there is no guarantee that we could successfully replace him even with 3 good players not to mention subsidising the wages needed fo 3 such players.We will keep our Welsh wonder and even if he doesn’t re-sign this summer we will be competing with the best by the next and will offer him a new one next summer.3 years and Bale’s great attitude say’s we are in no hurry and he knows he still owes us some loyalty for sticking with him through the dark times when the likes of you lot,Man Utd fans,were slagging him off declaring how lucky you were at not landing such a loser when he was just 17 years old and for those that can’t or choose not to remember,here’s a link,read the comments by you S.cum fans at the bottom.Really,you make me sick.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1221871/Spurs-flop-Gareth-Bale-January-Birmingham-boss-Alex-McLeish-eyes-3m-defender.html
The arrogance of Man Utd fans is astounding.You lot are so presumptuous it makes me sick.The guy who owns Bales contract has stated he is NOT for sale for sale for ANY price.Bale hasn’t asked to leave because he isn’t thinking about it so why should he put in a request to do so or make a statement stating otherwise just for you lots benefit? He’s staying at Spurs.We have him signed for 3 years at least as of now and in 3 years a lot can happen,especially if we keep bringing in players like Paulinho to play along side the likes of Sandro and Dembele.With Bale and either Gilfy,Dempsey or Lennon or even Holtby and a new striker just to convert the many chances we make already,we will be a force.You know this to be true already as we took four points off you last season with a lesser team who weren’t even as used to playing with each other yet! Bale hasn’t hinted at all that he want’s to leave.That’s just your wishful thinking.Even £80 m8il (which you couldn’t afford) wouldn’t get him.Levy knows that even with that amount of money there is no guarantee that we could successfully replace him even with 3 good players not to mention subsidising the wages needed fo 3 such players.We will keep our Welsh wonder and even if he doesn’t re-sign this summer we will be competing with the best by the next and will offer him a new one next summer.3 years and Bale’s great attitude say’s we are in no hurry and he knows he still owes us some loyalty for sticking with him through the dark times when the likes of you lot,Man Utd fans,were slating him declaring how lucky you were at not landing such a loser when he was just 17 years old and for those that can’t or choose not to remember,here’s a link,read the comments by your fans at the bottom.Really,you make me sick.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1221871/Spurs-flop-Gareth-Bale-January-Birmingham-boss-Alex-McLeish-eyes-3m-defender.html
Agreed, Spurs most definately are in the drving seat on the contract front and Bale is being appropriately diplomatic in his comments. Spurs squad is looking increasingly worthy and I feel they will do well this season and probably overtake Aresenal in that particular battle, but no disrespect and arrogance intended……….Utd are big team and all big players strive to play on the biggest stage.