If you include Bale, Madrid are responsible for 5 of the top ten most expensive purchases ever.
Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Kaka.
What Levy gets for Bale has zip to do with his negotiating skills.
Madrid need their marquee signing and part of their act is actually spending big - outside of Neymar Bale is the marquee player this summer
Simple as that.
A younger RVP without the years lost to injury could have fetched twice what United paid, unfortunately Madrid weren't interested in the 29 year old version.
Bad luck on us.
