Gareth Bale

[BarcaGirl]

Johnathan Barnett (Bale's agent): "Bale is better than Neymar. Bale played in the EPL and won lots of individual awards." [la sexta]

lol

 

[barca1899]

Johnathan Barnett (Bale's agent): "Bale is better than Neymar. Bale played in the EPL and won lots of individual awards." [la sexta]

 

[coco1247]

Ah of course he's gonna say that, he's his agent.
Hopefully everyone else is smart enough not to take him too seriously.
But a bit of comedy is never bad in football

 

[Cule4life]

Johnathan Barnett (Bale's agent): "Bale is better than Neymar. Bale played in the EPL and won lots of individual awards." [la sexta]

lol

 

[coura]

Agents should shut up. Every one of them. They are like leeches. I dispise all of them.

 

[Poor_Sunyol]

Bale's pretending to be injured. The pressure has got to him already.

 

[Aryagorn]

Bale's pretending to be injured. The pressure has got to him already.

a melt down would be sweet

 

[Theconomist]

This is what you get for a one season wonder (the 1 thing he did previously that could even remotely justify his price tag was the 2 good games against Inter).

 

[Meitux]

Can't say anything on him yet, unfit and not adapted to his new team. Not a distinct image to judge yet.

 

[Capitan Puyol]

100 million euro wheat runner.

 

[pEllee]

Don't blame the player, blame the manager in this case. Why would you try to play possession-football when you have Ronaldo and Bale in the same team? They look lost and confused.

Still very overpriced though. And they certainly didn't need another selfish player in the team.

 

[Aryagorn]

So I have this doubt... If a galactico turns out to be a disaster, will the whole business to buy him still turn out to be a financial profit for Madrid?

Even though Kaka was a horrendous failure, he was a global super star before he came to Real! So I presume he did cbring them profits?

 

[jamrock]

i lol at his price at much as the next man, but its early days, he will produce something for them, not 100m worth. but he will be ok

 

[oz187]

Even though Kaka was a horrendous failure, he was a global super star before he came to Real! So I presume he did cbring them profits?

It's hard to measure the impact of a single player. But you can see the annual revenue, and Madrid have increased theirs significantly and consistently every year. In that respect the overall financial strategy has paid off, although how much of that is because of Galacticos and how much is because of good work of the marketing department is unknown publically.

 

[BarcaOG]

it wasn't that he was bad today. its that he wasn't great. which, at 100m euros, he better damn be.