IS GARETH BALE WORTH £100 MILLION ???

After a very successful season personally for Gareth Bale, he was always going to be subject to numerous transfers rumours. He had hinted on several occasions he would stay at least for another year with Spurs,but after hearing Zidane Zidane say "its now or never" to join Madrid, he has now set his sights on the Bernabeu. The deal looks set to happen, there is no doubt in his talent, but for a player who is a mirror image of Cristiano Ronaldo and is the same age as Ronaldo was when he left England,the question is to be asked,Is he worth £100 million. Is he £20milllion more than than what Ronaldo was at the time he left man utd.Is he double the player Luis suarez is?. Stefan El shaarawy had the same effect Bale had on Spurs with Milan in the 1st half of the season, had he continued till the end, would he be worth £100million? . In this article, we take a look at factors that are for and against the motion.
         FACTORS THAT ARE AGAINST THE BALE PRICE. Basically the first thing that comes to mind is that,is he a better player than Ronaldo was in 2009?. The answer is clearly NO. Ronaldo won a champions league,3 league titles,an Fa cup,2 league cups, a balon d'or,2 PFA player and young player of the year awards  and finished top scorer in both the champions league and the league at 24. Bale at that same age has won just the PFA player and young player of the year award (twice) and finished 3rd top scorer in the league this year.He may not have won the best player award this year had Van persie not run out of form mid-season and had Suarez not made a snack out of Ivanovic. Ronaldo played 290 times for united scoring 117 times,while Bale has played 203 times for spurs scoring 55 goals,although he started as a left back. Another factor is the fact that Bale has not played at the highest level for Spurs and Wales. The highest he can boast of is that sole season in 2010/2011,were ironically spurs were kocked out by Real madrid,the biggest, match he has played in would be the 2010 league cup final or a north london derby,thay cannot be compared to an El clasico or a big European night at the Bernebeu. Another factor against his price is the fact that this is his most impressive season in his career so far and hence another question can be asked,Does one season make you worth £100million?. Some will say its more than that, remember maicon,but does cleaning the san siro with the world best right-back (at the time) make you worth £100million?. Lewandowski battered Madrid in the champions league semi-final with 4 goals in one match at 24 but is he worth even £50million now? These are the factors that make Bale's price absurd.






        FACTORS THAT COULD JUSTIFY THE BALE PRICE. First and foremost you're dealing with Daniel levy,the hardest Chairman in the world,a man that many more millions will have to be added to the real value of the player to sweeten his mind to at least start thinking of selling,worst of all,the player now happens to be the best in England and the most sought after footballer in England commercially,you know you have your cut out for you, with him "money talks,bullshit walks" and when i say money alot of money has to talk. Again Bale is British,for some reason they are over priced,examples can be seen with Andy carrol for £35million,Stuart Downing for £20million,Gareth Barry for £6million and Xabi Alonso (a bid Aston Villa foolishly rejected in 2008 to keep Barry). So being that Bale is the best British player around,also adds a few more millions to his price. Another factor is that with this season Bale is getting to his peak, and can single handedly win matches and score in the big games (man utd,man city,Arsenal) so it will be best to pay as much as possible for him to spend his peak years at Madrid and help them win the big trophies. Florentino Perez has been known to spend big and break record transfers,but has been quite for 2 summers now, in that respect,i guess its time to break the record for a fifth time and what better way to do it than, bid for Gareth Bale, a player who with the factors around him will definately break the record. He said "great players pay for themselves" which is very true as the Real brand coupled with the Bale brand will raise mind blowing revenue and also win trophies that will recover the money spent, but with that statement it means we're getting ready to see a new record fee.








     In truth,i feel Bale is worth £50million but the factors that surround him double that amount. As said earlier in the article, his talent cannot be doubted, but his price can be. No matter the school of thought you are,be sure that a new world record fee is around the corner. We can only hope for his sake and that of Madrid that he doesn't end up like Kaka and majority of the British players that go to Spain and flop especially with the tag of being "The most expensive player in the world"



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