It’s not the boards fault he hasn’t signed and they’d not have deserved much credit had he signed. It was always going to be bale’s decision based on very little else.

I would say though that had we been riding high in the champ and he’d had the carrot of being the final piece of the jigsaw to get his hometown club promoted it may have been more of a temptation? But years of mis management meant that wasn’t possible as he would’ve been joining a side in the middle of a complete transition and training/playing with far from household names.

It’s why I’ve never really got too excited about it, think he’d have been the difference between finishing 9th and 17th rather than suddenly making us promotion contenders