Gareth Bale’s loan deal from Real Madrid to Tottenham will cost the Lilywhites around £12 million, The Sun has revealed.
The Welshman is set to sign on-loan for the rest of the season, but with his current Real Madrid contract expiring at the end of next season, the loan deal might be extended to cover that period.
Spurs will have pulled off one of the biggest transfers of the summer with the signing of the winger whom they sold to Real Madrid in 2013 for more than £80 million.
He had fallen out of favour with Zinedine Zidane and needed to move to play football again.
Spurs have managed to convince Madrid to let him join them on loan with the Lilywhites paying only a fraction of his huge wages.
He is joining Spurs with his Real Madrid teammate, Sergio Reguilon, who moves to north London in a separate deal worth £25 million.
This has been a very positive transfer market for Tottenham as they have now landed at least four top players.
Bale and Reguilon will join Matt Doherty and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg as new players and the club will hope that they can help Jose Mourinho as he looks to end their trophy drought.
Even with the big wages, £12 million for a genuine world-class player is cheap by any standards, especially if he ends up staying far longer than the initial one year.
Say what you want about Daniel Levy but he can pull off a great deal.