adminReal Madrid will wait to appoint a new coach before considering a bid for Tottenham Hotspur winger Gareth Bale.
The Welshman is in high demand following his Player of the Year exploits in the English Premier League, and Real have been tipped to make a move between £60-£80million for the player.
Club president Florentino Perez – the brainchild of Real’s “Galatico” policy – admits that is a distinct possibility, but says they will first have to wait for a new coach to be appointed following the exit of Jose Mourinho.
“Madrid always want the best,” he told Marca. “Tottenham is a very amicable club, but first we must see who our new coach will be and after that we will begin to arrange our new squad.
“I think the same as if we were to have a tennis team and Rafael Nadal asked me for these millions. For players like this, the investment they generate you and the revenue they produce, you can give everything to try and get them.
“I demonstrated in 2000 that with players like this you can change the dynamic, going from losing to winning.
“Then you have to look carefully at the player involved. We are not going to talk too much about Bale because he plays at a very amicable club and they will be annoyed by too much talk about him I know their chairman well and he doesn’t like things like that.
“But I repeat, we have a long list, but there will be one particular player, of course.” — Kickoff
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter