Reply With QuoteAgreed.Originally Posted by Pug
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The media and fans spend way too much time talking about what professional footballers can, should or will do with their lives.
Gareth Bale is pestered about what he intends to do with his career and hasn't said anything unreasonable in response.
Agreed.
I didnt call him a prick.
You did refer to RM fans being spoiled brats. The overwhelming majority maybe all who love their club and would pull on their clubs shirt on for nothing without the mega millions Bale has taken and would have walked away from for China if allowed.
Announcing it at our training ground is rubbing it in just a little
I agree.
He could have ruled us out weeks ago and ended the speculation.
Is that why he was there?Announcing it at our training ground is rubbing it in just a little
Bale just needs somewhere to get match fit. He’s chosen to join a successful team in a place with a warm climate and fantastic lifestyle for his family, can’t say I blame him. Cardiff would have offered him something much more uncertain including the significant risk he’d be joining a struggling team.
And at the end of the year what then? Another 5 months of Championship football which lets face it after the career he’s had he wouldn’t be remotely interested in.
Dalman and the board are probably happy for the distraction this has offered from the real issue which is the club’s inability to invest and compete in the market with leading Championship sides due to the last 3-4 years of their utter incompetence.
You quoted my response to someone who does think he is a prick . A couple more of you are trying to make out he has wronged you in some way.
I don't really understand your second sentence but Real Madrid fans are awfully fickle....especially the ones involved in the media. There are numerous examples of how petty and infantile they can be.
This whole thing is actually very similar to the Mbappe situation and some of our fans appear to be reacting in a very similar way to the Madrid fans who turned on their hero in waiting the moment he rejected them.
All football fans are fickle to a greater or lesser extent
Do you think that everyone is just going oh well never mind about this ?
Probably. If that was the case, I think he or Barnett should have saidIs that why he was there?
I don’t really see why not tbh.
Dear Gareth
Are in interested in signing for Cardiff ?
1 . Yes , talks are ongoing
2. No
Thanks Gareth
Do you think RM fans were infantile reacting to Bale laughing behind Wales Golf Madrid flags. Not giving interviews in Spanish.?
No offence because of his undoubted ability you and loads of others think he can do no wrong.
The Madrid criticism goes both ways 50/50 id say and with the China transfer id say thats being nice to Bale.
I think we were spoiled with Bellamy really caring about his hometown club and getting us up. We thought the same might happen again.
Bale couldnt care less about our club. Same as thousands of others who prefer to support Man u Liverpool etc.
Do feel us strung us along though.
Anyway would you be happy for say a player like Bacuna laughing behind a similar flag Bale did?
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing. I was never sure how bringing in someone like Bale would work, allowing someone to come and go as they please, given how Morison is very much building a squad that basks in hard work and graft. I never thought he would have featured that often for us, meaning we'd need someone to fill his role when he didn't play or have squad upheaval as a result. Neither would be that satisfactory.
He's decided to go to America on a wage less than we'd offer him. That's the kick in the teeth. In a recent interview he didn't care where he played as it was only his fitness, not his ability, that was the issue. He's having an elongated holiday at a place he loves.
Let's not pretend that Cardiff means anything to Gareth Bale. He's a global superstar, and why not? I hope that, in 18 months or whatever, we don't bother with him.
As much as it’s really disappointing, I agree it’s the best all round.
I always felt it would be a short term deal
Which wouldn’t have suited us
A deal based all around him getting fit so cardiffs results don’t matter
Hardly starting any games
His stock in the capital going down because it all starts to go a bit sour.
From his point of view great to join the home club but unless it was his last move with nothing else going on (wc) then he’s not going to be all out Cardiff. Add into that it’ll likely
Be a struggling team, and then add Vincent tan.
I’d have done the same as him
For all the moaners saying he’s strung us along, he’s probably been giving it a lot of thought but genuinely if you were In his shoes, with wales clearly your number one priority and about to play in a World Cup, would you join Cardiff right now?
The guy is a legend end of and I’ll still hold onto a scrap of hope he’ll join us to finish his career
I wonder if his sponsor Adidas had anything to do with the move, seeing as they are also the shirt supplier for Los Angeles…
This thread is bonkers. Years of shite at Real Madrid so wants to go live the life in LA for a couple of years where he’ll be relatively unknown and not have a circus around him like he would everywhere here. How anyone can knock him for that instead of wanting to help us to 12th is mad
It made no sense him coming to us and probably would have been a disaster both financially and from a results standpoint. Whilst his recent goals from set pieces have helped Wales his open field play has been disappointing. his best years are behind him and we should now be focussing on the exciting youngsters.
He wants the penny and the bun
If a premiership club had been interested he would have been there like a shot
Not knocking him for that. It’s probably why we were never realistically going to sign him. The fact we’ve been strung along by him and his representatives is why this thread is bonkers and justifiably so.
Massive over reactions on here.
I think he has made his decision on what will be best for Wales at the World Cup.
As long he is match fit and firing for Wales in November, I don't care where he plays.
It really is for the best.
It would have been a circus if he was at City all the while we are trying to build a new team from scratch.
It really is for the best.
Indeed
He could easily have put the blocks on any deal when asked last week
He's 32 , he's a big boy now
Why have we been strung along by him? What does he gain out of that? Do you think it could’ve been a choice Cardiff v LA and he mulled it over and decided to go one way when he could’ve easily gone another.
He ruled out Getafe straight away, everything indicates he spoke to the club, including Dalman’s comments earlier. Not sure how people are leaping from that to him and his agent were having a chuckle all along. Baffling
He didn't make the decision to go over to Los Angeles for what was right for Wales
He clearly did what was right , in his view , for him
That's obvious
Now that's fair enough but let's not pretend Cardiff City were not pissed about in this matter
Bale could have dealt with that
But he chose not to
So plenty of people are a bit pissed off about it
And I think that's perfectly understandable
He probably looked at our squad and thought **** it, I’ll take the easier option.
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