When it comes to Tottenham and their best players, the media seems intent on driving them apart. It seems incomprehensible that Spurs could find some form of success and so the only viable response to this is to forecast a difficult future. What else explains the influx of stories concerning the future of players like Gareth Bale and Luka Modric? Yes they’re exciting talents and they are sure to have interested plenty of clubs, but haven’t Harry Redknapp and Daniel Levy proven that they’re capable of keeping hold of the players they want to keep hold of?
So I wonder what to make of the Metro reporting that Barcelona’s chief negotiator Andoni Zubizarreta has laid the foundations for the clubs pursual of Bale in what count amount to world record transfer. It’s claimed that Andoni has made phone calls, trips to London and met with the top brass at White Hart Lane to try and manoeuver Barca into the power position when it comes to Gareth Bale.
Catalan newspaper Sport claim that the process was started back in October, via a phone call and proceeded into talks with Spurs and Bale’s management firm, the Stellar Group.
If there’s any truth to these rumours, then I’m a little surprised that Barcelona have elected to make Bale their major transfer target. It’s clear that this is a club obsessed with having somebody to obsess over. Now that they’ve got Cesc Fabregas they need somebody else to pine for. But why Gareth Bale, a man with no Barca connection and no good reason to leave his club. He’s also a man that Spurs have shown no willingness to sell.
For Barcelona it just seems like a fool’s errand.
After all, Bale will surely have looked at the progress his side has made in recent times and view Tottenham as a club going places. They are a good shout for a 2nd or 3rd place finish this season and as Barca themselves look like they’ll finish 2nd (they’re currently 7 points away from leaders Real Madrid) in La Liga it’s hardly a big step up. Of course the current Barcelona first team is better than Tottenham’s, but who’s to say that Spurs can’t engineer a position over the coming years where they too have one of Europe’s best sides?
What’s more, who’s to say that Gareth Bale even wants to move to Spain? He’s settled in North London and likely to stay there for the near future. Any information to the contrary is surely just Barcelona propaganda.
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