SoccerPunter: Gareth Bale will join Real Madrid

Posted on July 31, 2013 by SoccerPunter

Gareth Bale will report to training as usual with Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday to prepare for club friendly matches.

He is one of the hottest football asset after scoring 26 goals in English Premier League 2012-2013.

Although Real Madrid bid offer for Gareth Bale is in excess of the record £80 million ($122 million, 92 million euros) paid to Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009, Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy remains unmoved.

Apparently there has been rumours that Tottenham Hotspur want Luka Modric as part of the transfer deal, the Croatian left White Hart Lane for the Bernabeu last year and failed to shine in Real Madrid.

Last month, SoccerPunter predicted that Gareth Bale will move to Real Madrid before the start of the new season. Despite the complicated situation, we are confident that the Wales winger will seal a deal to Spain Primera Division. No business owner in his right mind will turn down a £100 million offer for a footballer. Daniel Levy is no exception.

Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas said during the club’s pre-season visit to Hong Kong last week that they were in talks with the highly rated Wales international about a new contract.

He said he was optimistic of reaching agreement on a deal but fuelled speculation that the 24-year-old would leave the club after saying that there was currently no agreement.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has also been reported as having set up a meeting with Real president Florentino Perez in Miami next week, where the Spanish club are due to play in a pre-season tournament, to broker a deal.

Bale’s family were even said to have met Levy earlier this week to persuade him to allow the player to go, even though he has reportedly not submitted a formal transfer request.

France legend and former Real player Zinedine Zidane, currently an ambassador for the Spanish capital club, was reported as saying: “If he (Bale) has expressed a desire to join Madrid, then Tottenham should give him permission to speak with us.

“The chance to play for Real Madrid might only come around once in a player’s lifetime — and it’s understandable that Gareth doesn’t want to miss out on it.”

Real and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas added that Bale would be welcomed as he was “one of the top three or four players in Europe”.

As such, Spurs’ return to training on Wednesday was being closely watched, with Bale’s appearance — or non-appearance — likely to spark further speculation about his immediate future.

A number of newspapers said without quoting sources that the winger would join the first-team squad but was unlikely to train because of a muscle injury that ruled him out of the club’s two games in Hong Kong.

Tottenham play a friendly against newly promoted French Ligue 1 side Monaco in the prinicipality on Saturday, although it is unclear whether Bale will feature.

Bale, who was born in Cardiff, joined Tottenham from Southampton in 2007 and signed a new four-year contract in June last year.