adminLONDON. — Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas appeared resigned yesterday to seeing star forward Gareth Bale leave for Real Madrid for a proposed world record transfer fee. Bale does not intend to return to Tottenham’s training ground again. But Villas-Boas said Spurs would still consider fining Bale after the Wales forward did not turn up at the north London club’s training ground on either Tuesday or yesterday.
“He is involved in a big transfer move to Real Madrid and in the end if it happens, we wish him all the best, but the fact that he hasn’t turned up is not the correct behaviour…,” Villas-Boas said at a news conference.
“That is the position they chose to take and it’s up to the club to decide if it’s a fineable offence,” the Portuguese added.
Villas-Boas confirmed Bale was on the brink of joining Spanish giants Real.
“It could happen very, very soon,” he said.
Villas-Boas added he did not expect to see Bale at Tottenham’s training ground again. “Will he be in tomorrow? I don’t know. I’m not really in
control of the situation I’ve left it up to the club to decide what they want to do,” the manager said.
“It’s up to Gareth (whether he wants to come back again). He has a good relationship with everybody and he has saluted the players the other day, myself included.”
Real manager Carlo Ancelotti angered Tottenham by speaking of Bale as though he’d already joined the Spanish club while erecting a stage at the Santiago Bernabeu for the presentation of the Welshman as one of their players.
“I cannot comment on actions that another club has taken, I showed my disappointment before and I think Carlo did extremely well because he didn’t speak about Gareth again after the first time,” Villas-Boas said. — AFP.
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