REAL MADRID are reportedly desperate to offload superstar Gareth Bale – but it will be mission impossible due to his £15.1million-a-year wages.
The Wales ace revealed this week how he would be keen on a move back to the Premier League.
Gareth Bale would be sold by Real Madrid – if they could find someone willing to pay a transfer fee AND stump up his £15million-a-year wagesCredit: Reuters
But Los Blancos will find it hard to get someone to meet his huge pay demands.
Madrid newspaper AS, always close to the ear of bean-counters at the Bernabeu, say any transfer this summer is now ‘practically impossible’, despite the club wanting him gone.
Had they sold him last year to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning, they would have potentially saved £45.3m in wages as at that stage he had three years left on his Bernabeu deal.
But Real do not want to give Bale a pay-off even now – which means the 31-year-old could well rot in the reserves for another season at least.
He has two years left on his contract at Madrid.
The former Spurs star – who joined the Madrid giants in 2013 for £86m – spoke about his heartache when he met up with the Wales squad for their Uefa Nations League matches this week.
He said: “It’s not really in my hands, the decision is in Real Madrid’s hands. They make things very difficult to be honest.”
Speaking about the U-turn on his move to China – which Jiangsu have claimed was “90 per cent” agreed, Bale said: “They blocked everything at the last second. It was a project I was excited for last year but it didn’t materialise.
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“There have been other instances where I have tried to go but the club won’t allow it or they have done something.
“I want to play football. I’m still motivated to play football. I guess it’s on the club. I can’t do much. They are in control of everything.
“I have a contract and all I can do is carry on with what I am doing and hopefully something comes up. It’s in the club’s hands.”
Madrid also rejected selling Bale to Manchester United in 2018.
That decision could end up costing them £60m in wages to a player who has hardly figured since 2018.
Of course, the situation could change dramatically if Madrid struggle in the first two months of next season and boss Zinedine Zidane is sacked.
But it appears that after seven years Bale is ready to call time on his Spanish adventure – and if a Prem club could afford him he would return to England.
He said: “It’s one of those situations if those options arise it’s something I would look at, for sure. We’ll see what happens.
“We have plenty of time in this transfer window and I guess a couple of others as well. Time will tell.”
But with stubborn Real refusing to budge from their stance on demanding a fee for the player, there does not seem any likelihood of a change in this stalemate.
So that could well mean another season where Bale plays more often for his country than he does for his club.
And with the Euro 2020 finals just nine months away, that will not help the Dragons’ cause.
Bale, set to face Bulgaria in Cardiff tomorrow, had better play plenty of golf to keep himself fit!
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
