Gareth Bale is putting pressure on Spurs to let him go to Real Madrid
Gareth Bale's representatives hope to meet Daniel Levy this week to impress on the Tottenham Hotspur chairman their client's desire to move to Real Madrid this summer, with the standoff between player and club threatening to turn acrimonious.
The Wales international and his team-mates returned from the Barclays Asia Trophy in Hong Kong in the small hours of Monday morning, with the manager, Andre Villas-Boas, having granted his squad two days off before they reconvene for Saturday's friendly in Monaco. Bale has been suffering from a minor glute muscle complaint, an injury that prevented him featuring in south-east Asia but, while the manager had envisaged the player resuming training this week, the 24-year-old does not anticipate participating at the weekend
He and his advisers are aware of Madrid's determination to secure him before Carlo Ancelotti's first campaign in charge and have been left exasperated by Levy's reluctance to consider an offer that would be worth a world record ?100m (£86.3m), which the player believes is still on the table. The chairman, who had held informal talks with Bale during a brief trip to Hong Kong last week, is understood to have flown back to London from Florida, where he owns a property, and intends to reiterate to the player that he will not be sold. Spurs have indicated they are absolutely resolute and have previous form in this area, having delayed the departures of Luka Modric and Dimitar Berbatov in the past..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/29/gareth-bale-tottenham-real-madrid-levy
