Spurs Transfer News: PSG To Offer £85 Million For Gareth Bale

by Joseph Dempsey

Daily Mail. In an intriguing twist, PSG are hoping to replace their Real Madrid-bound manager Carlo Ancelotti with Andre Villas-Boas and will be hoping his appointment could help persuade the PFA Player of the Year to follow suit and move to the Parc des Princes also. However, even if AVB ops to stay at Spurs, that will not lessen the resolve of the French champions in their persuit of the Welshman, who also won last season's PFA Young Player of the Year Award. PSG have spent an eye-watering £200 million on transfers since their 2011 takeover by ultra-rich Qatar Sport Investments, with high-profile players such as Zlatan Ibrahimovi‡, Lucas Moura, Javier Pastore and even David Beckham all moving to the club in recent seasons. Yet they accept it will take a world-record-breaking fee - which is currently the £80 million Real Madrid paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 - to land the superstar. PSG and Real Madrid are but only a handful of clubs who could realistically afford Bale, although United have also been linked with the midfielder, who will listen to what all three European heavyweights have to say if Tottenham decide to cash in.

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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.