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Transfer Business at Other Clubs (aka the other Wish List)

Timbob

I would be delighted if Barcelona spunked £30m up the wall on Bale. Would make my summer.

Claudius

He'd be a good signing for them. Would give the, the pace and power they sorely lack. Bale to Barca, that is. I wish we'd manged to buy him. He's a handful

Ricky1985

As a left back it might be a worthwhile signing, as a left winger - he would be hilariously out of place, and out of his depth.

Timbob

He's a good player (at left wing or left back imo), but for what he'd cost and considering that Barcelona can have anyone they want more or less, he'd be a ridiculous signing.

And he definitely wouldn't be bringing anything to the table that Barcelona 'sorely lack'.

lorddulaarsenal

Ricky you underrate bale a tad. He's a flat track bully

Ricky1985

He's a good player, but not a Barcelona player. Nowhere close.

lorddulaarsenal

Maybe if he puts in more hours on the training ground though hey Ricky?

Captain

He's twice the player of anyone they have at leftback and thus would improve them. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks his actual level of ability is.

Ricky1985

Carl Jenkinson wrote:
Maybe if he puts in more hours on the training ground though hey Ricky?

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He better giving up sleeping 8 hours a day in that case.

Klaus

Caligula wrote:
He'd be a good signing for them. Would give the, the pace and power they sorely lack.

We're talking about the same team here? The one with the fastest forward and right-back in the world?

Rex

Bale´s main strength is his crossing. Who is he going to cross the ball to at Barcelona?

Captain

Same people that Alves crosses to.

Rex

True. Do you think Bale could hack it though playing against teams that defend deep and don´t really give much space to work with? Part of why Bale is so good for Spuds IMO, is because teams don´t really take Tottenham as seriously as they should.

Captain

From the 'free' fullback role at Barcelona? Certainly. Not from left wing forward.

Rex

Hmm. Is it just me who doesn´t particularly rate monkey boy as a defender?

Captain

He doesn't need to defend at Barcelona. Well not in the way that he would have to at Spurs anyway.

Captain

Put it this way, if Alves moved to Spurs at 20-21, Harry would have turned him into a winger too.

Claudius

I find it funny that a lot of people who refuse to watch Spurs play are able to come out with very strong statements about their players. Watch video of even yesterday's game. Bale has impressive ability to just power past defenders, and he creates a lot of goal-scoring chances. He is NOT yet good enough to be considered for one of the front six positions, but he would be starting left back without much difficulty.

Ricky1985

Funny you can come to the conclusion that he can "start left back without much difficulty" and yet you've probably never seen him play left back!

We all know exactly what Gareth Bale plays like, I'm sure there's not a member on here that hasn't seen him play at least 10 times, many more in most cases. And general consensus seems to be he could be exciting as an attacking left back, so could Stewart Downing for the record, but is quite a long way off the standard needed to play in his actual position for them.

Captain

That's mostly because his 'actual position' doesn't exist at Barcelona.

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