Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[damon loves JT]

The story I heard is that the Village People wore the distinctive costumes to hide the fact that the line-up changed continually. They were very badly paid by their management and always under threat of getting the sack if they asked for more money.

I expect Ellis had a hand in it, somewhere

[LeeB]

The story I heard is that the Village People wore the distinctive costumes to hide the fact that the line-up changed continually. They were very badly paid by their management and always under threat of getting the sack if they asked for more money.

I expect Ellis had a hand in it, somewhere

There's no need for that kind of smut on a Sunday.

[VinnieChase84]

Bale is exceptional but worth about 50 in today's prices.

This! If spurs are being offered Di Maria and Coentrao plus £50m they should
Snap their hands off

[villa kicks]

Bale is n't worth more than 60mil. 80mil means He is twice as good as Rooney or Suarez

[damon loves JT]

Must be terrible to support a selling club like Spurs.

[Malandro]

Bale is n't worth more than 60mil. 80mil means He is twice as good as Rooney or Suarez

I agree he's at least 10x as good as the jug-earred moron

[ozzjim]

he is better but not that  much. 82 Million is pure madness. To reject that is even more crazy.

[Percy McCarthy]

Bale is exceptional but worth about 50 in today's prices.

This! If spurs are being offered Di Maria and Coentrao plus £50m they should
Snap their hands off

Decent lyrics, need to hear the tune though.

[Clark W Griswold]

Bale is n't worth more than 60mil. 80mil means He is twice as good as Rooney or Suarez

It doesn't really work like that though, if a player is seen as the best that money can buy in that position, that is why the price sky rockets. It can be determined by how many top clubs would be willing to buy him, a lot of those clubs may feel that Rooney or Suarez are excellent players but would they greatly improve on what they already have? They probably feel that Bale would. Also contract situations come into play on price.

In actual fact, i'd say with current world transfer fees and the way he played last season (i assume he's got plenty of contract left) you wuldn't be too suprised at £75m

[LeeB]

Bale is n't worth more than 60mil. 80mil means He is twice as good as Rooney or Suarez

It doesn't really work like that though, if a player is seen as the best that money can buy in that position, that is why the price sky rockets. It can be determined by how many top clubs would be willing to buy him, a lot of those clubs may feel that Rooney or Suarez are excellent players but would they greatly improve on what they already have? They probably feel that Bale would. Also contract situations come into play on price.

Also, Rooney and Suarez appear to be a pair of classless fuckwits, whereas Bale does seem to be a decent chap and a good pro.

[DB]

Bale is one hamstring twang or knee twist from turning into Owen. Loads of injury time out and never getting back his form ne once had.

[Stu]

Bale is one hamstring twang or knee twist from turning into Owen. Loads of injury time out and never getting back his form ne once had.

So like any footballer, he's a bad injury away from retiring from the game.

What effect does that have on his value?

[eamonn]

Aren't they all?
There's a lot more to Bale's game than pace if that's what you're saying.

[OCD]

Bizarrely, Bale was spared a lot of injury time when he went over on his ankle towards the end of the season. He didn't have any ligament damage because he's already had to have the ligament removed in the past.

[olaftab]

Bale is n't worth more than 60mil.

How did you work that out? He is no more worth £60m than he is worth  £80m. It's an artificial value that is driven by complex and inflated market place and either of those numbers have no realistic value.