Gareth Bale

has settled into a very consistent/effective presence in the past twelve months imo, avb a good influence on him so far in keeping his performances at a high level and maybe limiting his wandering that was encouraged far too much under redknapp

hmm maybe not limiting so much (given a hat-trick from central last night) so much as working on the discipline of the wanders

aren't tottenham playing 442 atm? which is very attacking when one of the wingers is bale

it's kind of more a 4 3 2 with bale one of the two, adebayor being the ' '

adebayor is such a weirdo

he should be owned by an investment company like tevez cuz he never plays well for whoever owns his contract

otm, but long forseen tbf. that said, 7m of an outlay was worth the gamble and imo avb will drop defoe as soon as it's in any way justifiable, it must really annoy him on an instinctive/tactical level that this midget is working so well as a point man

http://i.imgur.com/rLr3M1u.png

smh

http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/wreck-it-ralph-box-office.jpg

anyone?

Ha

wrecked newky defence today tbf

i cant wait to watch bale-ozil-ronaldo

Paranorman btw

Outside of the boot is subtly different to the cron dip or beckham instep n'est pas

Were people not saying (last season I think) that he didn't have skill to play in the centre and should stay out left? If so, what's changed?

Eh, not that he didnt have the skill tbh, i think it was more that the balance of the team required his staying left (remember that modric and vdv v adequately occupied the middle and an in-form adebayor prob deserved his service from wide).

i'm not sure his increased roving doesnt impact negatively on dembele, but tbf it's not like dempsey nor ade are gonna do fuck all even if bale was swinging in peach after peach so as well for him to roam to some effect.

this feeling that an optimally performing spurs wouldnt release bale into this free role is part of what keeps me from embracing it, it's a plan b tactic and my gut feeling is that it's not reliable in the long run.

There's a difference between Redknapp playing him in a free role (when he would just bomb around all over the place and no one would really know what he was doing) and AVB switching him to the middle, where he has a defined role. Like you get the feeling it's actually been worked on in training this time.

Also this:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/gareth-bale-has-scored-tottenhams-last-6-goals-gifs/

Wish they'd work on not starting dempsey ahead of holtby in training tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BD-2f5XCUAEoSsY.jpg:large

Eck would have curbed those attacking ambitions and made a proper shite left-back out of him.

Not often you see Kris Boyd in the same company as the likes of Bale but there it is. Ailsa dug up another article yesterday sticking him in the Torres bracket (pre-shit Liverpool Torres, that is).

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/gareth-bale/club-after-summer-transfer-window

Spurs not even quoted.

Bayern at 12-1 looks good value.

Ribery still has 2 years left on his contract and has been great this season. Don't think they'll be interested.

Maybe. There was some talk of Pep wanting to move Ribery on but that might be nonsense.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00002657917

haha

has anyone done a 'shop of that yet with the Wu-Tang logo in the middle

goatseeeee

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67521000/jpg/_67521553_168311540.jpg

Gareth Frank Bale (born 16 July 1989) is a Welsh footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team as a winger.

for posterity

Not going anywhere.

http://distilleryimage4.ak.instagram.com/8916abf6f5a711e2a61a22000a9e06f0_7.jpg

spotted in times square

billboard has apparently been taken down already.

the best british players (apart from the actual best ie scholes) do tend to conform a force-of-nature type, gerrard is the best example and rooney when he is indulged, oxlade chamberlain is another of those players who 'could play anywhere' which usually means 'will play everywhere'

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:03 (1 year ago)

ross barkley is another to add to that list, he is very gifted but he doesn't have any sort of composure or natural discipline in his play, and it's not just because he is young

I am always faintly surprised when I remember that you rate Gerrard.

gerrard without the long passes would be a hell of a player

gerrard is a hell of a player, the long passes would have been crushed out of him elsewhere but they show passion and desire and plus he can kick it really hard and these are v good things in the british isles obv

ancelotti's madrid will be such a different team to tottenham of the last few years that i imagine him becoming yet another sort of player, that he will be broken down and remade in a different image

he just isn't going to be able to play with the license he has had for most of the last two seasons

Gareth Bale has a slipped disc on the L5 -S1 vertebrae and a bulge on the L4 -L5. This amounts to a significant injury which, at least for the moment, isn't giving him trouble and won't prevent him from playing for the foreseeable future. However, further down the line it may force him off the pitch and, depending on how things progress, may even require surgery.

Real Madrid medical staff diagnosed the injury on 2nd September, the day of his official presentation at the club. The MRI scan left no room for doubt: a slipped disc on the L5 -S1 vertebrae and a bulge, which is the beginnings of another, on L4 -L5. An injury that set alarm bells ringing at the Sanitas clinic in La Moraleja, just outside Madrid, and from where Florentino Pérez was informed of the injury hiding in the former Tottenham player's spine.

Bale said he hadn't noticed any pain at all and claimed he had never had problems in that area before.

There was no going back on the signing. The deal was done and Florentino Pérez, who was now up to speed on Bale's secret, did not object. The € 91million deal was going to go ahead as planned and neither hell nor high water would prevent Bale from running onto the pitch at the Bernabeú in a Nº 11 shirt, in front of a 40,000 strong crowd.

Since he was in no pain, the club chose not to dwell on it. But those who saw that MRI scan know all too well that they may face a very serious problem with the Welsh player at any moment...

levy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvW6qiTkZdw

In response to the information that the newspaper Marca has published today regarding the player Gareth Bale, Real Madrid would like to state the following:

1. The information published, claiming that the player has a slipped disc on the L5-S1 vertebrae and a bulge on two others, is completely false.

2. The player does not have a slipped disc, as the club's medical services stated clearly to the newspaper before the information was published. Surprisingly, the version the doctors offered this media outlet on Thursday 10 October has been omitted.

3. The player Gareth Bale has a small chronic disc bulge, which is extremely common among football players and by no means prevents him from carrying out his professional activity normally.

http://i.imgur.com/iEpb7Uu.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvzxmUSEYk8

s'alright I suppose

Gareth Fail.

my friend insisted on showing me this goal on his phone

lol

valdano was negging him in midweek, some of the madrid press seem to be ever so slightly disappointed that all he does is run really fast and finish with impeccable technique from ever angle, this is what you get

10 in 17 in the league despite arriving injured and getting injured again midseason

i'm content seeing him have a quietly accomplished first season while he acclimatizes & gets over his injuries. it's so rare to see a successful british export, i've ended up wanting to see him excel despite myself