I’ve seen a couple Tweets saying that Bale would be getting £25,000 a week plus image rights. I don’t know if that’s true, but, if it was, it’d be more than double the figure that has been rumoured to be the maximum City would be paying this summer. Therefore, I think it’s reasonable to deduce that a figure of 25,000 a week for any player who we sign this summer, is at the very high end of what we’re capable of paying, yet if Bale was in it for the money, he could, surely, do much better than that now?
City are only in a position to be in the running to get Bale because he is willing to reduce his demands - I don’t think he would be doing that with other Championship clubs.