Spurs Transfer News: Gareth Bale Agrees Personal Terms With Real Madrid

by Joseph Dempsey

BBC. However, Real are still in negotiations with Spurs over the fee, having already submitting an £86 million bid, one of two offers put forward for the 24-year-old. The second was of £70 million, to be paid in a one-off instalment and to also include a player. Both would eclipse the £80 million Real paid to Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009. Bale has been the subject of one of this summer's most enduring of transfer sagas and was absent for the bulk of Tottenham's pre-season campaign, while he has also yet to feature for them this season. The Wales international also skipped training with Spurs earlier this week in protest at what he believed to have been his club dragging their feet over the move, provoking anger from his manager Andre Villas-Boas. But at last it would appear the deal will come to fruition, just two-and-a-half days away from the closure of the transfer window next Monday at 23:00 BST. Spurs have been busy buying replacements for Bale, breaking their club-transfer-record three times on Paulinho, Roberto Soldado and Erik Lamela.

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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.