Gareth Bale to Spurs: I’m sorry but it’s just another sticking plaster.
— Oliver Holt (@OllieHolt22) September 15, 2020
The return of Gareth Bale to the Premier League is an exciting prospect, but one that doesn’t have everyone convinced. There’s the 31-year-old’s age, and a track record of injuries are enough to make anyone wince. What is most important of all, is what tangible good would the Welshman bring to Tottenham?
Bale has been a serial winner at Real Madrid, and no matter how disgruntled some Spanish fans have become, nobody can take away his silverware; La Liga: 2016–17, 2019–20, Copa del Rey: 2013–14, Supercopa de España: 2017, UEFA Champions League: 2013–14, 2015–16,2016–17, 2017–18.
A source close to the club believes that whilst Jose Mourinho is excited at the prospect of Bale at Spurs, the Portuguese needs assurances that the boy is here to work, and once he has them from Bale, he also requires Levy to use this stopgap to get a deal in a place for another striker. Gareth Bale would as Ollie Holt above suggests, be a great sticking plaster, but if this deal were to go through, then it would be no more than Daniel Levy catching the break of his career.
What Gareth Bale is most definitely not, is a long term solution. If Levy were to fail to prepare the squad again, then it’s difficult to see Mourinho’s contract running beyond the 2022/23 season, when it is set to expire.
Harry Kane is an avid golfer mate 😆
Loved that man watched it about ten times in awe.. Outrageous pace.
Aye.. Bale and Kane are the two best british players as well for me… Those two linking up is mouthwatering.. Bale has world class free kicks in his locker too.. Lamela is our best at dead balls and he rarely starts.
What about the goal in the Copa del Rey final where he ran off the pitch to go around his player, then came back on, bore down on goal and scored. I’ve never seen that done by anyone. Left him for dead like a traffic cone.
Would lift the team’s morale that’s for sure. Just having Bale on the pitch will give the opposition defenders a desire to use our marble and gold plated crapper’s!
Almost as bad as Kane’s lol. We’ve got to take the risk, anyway he hasn’t picked up any injuries playing golf has he?
Bale gingerly walking! 😆…… Mate the roadrunner is a more accurate description…. He has always picked up little knocks and strains, because he is so rapid.
😆 Score overhead kicks from 35 yards in CL finals when losing 1-0…. Not even Kane could pull that one off.
No serious injuries. No long term injuries or surgery…… Bale and players like him will always pick up niggling little injuries and knocks.. When anyone can run at extreme pace and turning and getting hit at speed means you are likely to pick up knocks… He wasn’t much different ten years ago.. His style invites them… What a player… Reguilon too it’s a miracle this window, positions are being addressed and Bale coming home makes me want to weep with joy…… Don’t give Madrid Dele though. Give them Ndombelly.
Including suspensions 4 times and an illness seems pointless when talking about injuries.
Bale on song is (in my view) one of Europes top players. He is a machine. If he wants to play, and can stay fit, him feeding Kane we may actually get some real creativity. Could you imagine being an opposition defender trying to choose between marking Kane, Son or Bale? That said though, Bale wont be able to play every game, I think he is not the true force he could be anymore and his injury record scares me.
He is a plaster over the cracks, hence why he would be a loan. Alli going to Real as a loan too could do wonders to that kid, teach him that he has not made it, there is no such thing, you need to work hard every week. Plus learning the role from Zidane, one of the best to ever play it cant hurt. This would be a short term fix, but gets over covid, could get us top 4 and then who knows.
We would still need a back up for Kane, but at least we would have a spark going froward.
9/9?? Seems he picks them up quickly too.
Perhaps you could put up Harry’s injury list as a comparison.
Bale seems to recover pretty quickly.
Knee injury 9/9???
Bale averaged 35 games a season over 7 years at Real Madrid.Simon Jordan thinks the players won’t be happy if Spurs pay him £300,000 per week,I would say to the same players come back when you have won as much as Gareth and we will pay you the same.
What would Gareth bring? A good short game. Does anyone know if we have any other keen golfers in the squad? We could clean up at those corporate golf tournaments.
Personally I would be happy just to use him for set pieces. Have him “gingerly” walk up and down the pitch for most of the game and just be ready to curl one in when we need it.
We have been missing a real threat from free kicks for ages, and even though he is older and more injury prone, he should still be more than capable of scoring for us that way.