Gareth Bale is being linked with a move to Real Madrid (Picture: Getty)

Gareth Bale. You might have heard of him. Plays for Spurs. Winger, free-roamer, loves a goal or two. Spectacular goals too, none of those boring tap-ins.

If you believe most of what you read in the press he’s distraught, angry, imprisoned, in turmoil etc etc. Stony-faced on his arrival back in England. Nothing to do with the long flight, everything to do with capturing a split second on camera in the way of a photograph which perfectly illustrates his desire to leave Spurs for Real Madrid.

Whatever.

I’m almost done with this. I haven’t written about anything else all summer long. With Tottenham on the brink of announcing Roberto Soldado (a striker, an actual bona fide striker!) we are all still obsessing about much ado about nothing.




Have Real Madrid made a bid for Gareth Bale? No.

Has Gareth Bale asked to leave Spurs by way of a transfer request or going on strike? No.

Is he unhappy at Spurs? No. Unless everyone has direct access to his inner thoughts. Why do I think he’s happy at Spurs? Because he said so himself, countless times already.

In fact he’s even spoke about next season at Spurs.

Bale has been behaving with professionalism (Picture: PA Wire)

Bale is behaving with immaculate professionalism. He’s obviously not going to come out and say one thing or the other in terms of wanting to stay/go. That would strengthen/weaken his position and ours.

The upper hand currently belongs to Levy and Spurs. Until an actual bid (rather than hyperbole and rhetoric) is made by Real Madrid, will Tottenham’s resolve be tested.

A record breaking bid? I doubt Spurs will say no and I’m sure Bale will be happy to go to Madrid this summer rather than the next. I’m not naive. I know he’ll end up going abroad at some point.

He wants that, he’s said as much in the past. Every player wants the best for their career and you can’t stand in the way of that. A record breaking bid will be undeniable to all concerned.

But if no bid is made, then for now, he remains a Spurs player and nothing, absolutely nothing, has been proved otherwise to suggest he’s another Berbatov or Modric.

How ironic that we’ve had a summer’s worth of headlines and rumours and alleged bids, but in among it all not a single confirmation from the ones with the biggest mouth (Madrid, Zidane and Perez) that a bid has been made. You’d think they’d tell everyone about that considering they are privy to every other nuance of information.

Tick tock tick tock, let’s see the colour of your money. Put up or shut up!

With love, a Tottenham Hotspur supporter.