GARETH Bale's pending $160 million move to Real Madrid dwarfs Adelaide United's $700,000 it made for Dario Vidosic's sale when he signed a three-year deal with Sion.

But Vidosic's fee is destined to be the A-League's money record deal for this current FIFA window which ends next Monday.

Adelaide striker Bruce Djite still holds the Reds transfer record when Turkish club Genclerbirligi paid $850,000 in 2008.

Considering Tottenham Hotspur is tipped to earn a world record fee for Bale and the English Premier League, Spainish Primera, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A have spent $2.6 billion in total during this window, Australian football business is miles away.

Australian clubs have earned just $1.67 million in transfer sales during this transfer window for Vidosic, Bernie Ibini (Mariner to Shanghai SIPG) and Oliver Bozanic (Mariners to Lucerne).

And Adelaide football director Michael Petrillo yesterday claimed the club had no intention of reinvesting any of Vidosic's transfer fee back into signing a marquee player.

But it's understood Adelaide is less than 24 hours away from naming a new signing now that Vidosic and the departure of Iain Fyfe to Iran's Mes Kerman has left two of the 23-man squad spots vacant.

''No the board certainly won't be using the type of money for that type of marquee player,'' Petrillo said.

''We never have in the past and we're certainly not going to start now.

''We just don't believe it's the right kind of thing for Adelaide at this point in time.''

Vidosic seemingly preferred to be tied down to Sion during a FIFA World Cup year given he had less than 12 months left on his Reds contract.

If Vidosic is part of Holger Osieck's Socceroos squad and does have a superb tournament in Brazil he could be inundated with offers but he could also find himself playing second division football for Sion after the World Cup.

Sion - a side which was coached last season by Italy 2006 World Cup winner Gennaro Gattuso and was Socceroos assistant Aurelio Vidmar's club in 1996 - is in relegation danger.

Sion after six games in the Swiss Super League hasn't scored a goal and has recorded just three draws but has 30 matches remaining to rectify the deficit.

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