Spurs don't pay more than £65k a week, and VDV is only on something like £45k.
If you say so.
He only started playing in January when Assou-Ekotto went off to the ACoN and spent a proportion of those games at fullback.
Never said he was as good as Ronaldo or Messi yet, I'm saying it's going ot take a massive amount of money for 'Arry to even consider a bid.
Last year he may of only started play in Jan, but he played over 1700 minutes, he only played 35% less than Malouda, 3 goals, 5 assists, x 1.35 doesn't equal Malouda's 12 goals and 9 assists, it doesn't come even remotely close.
Most top players don't play 3000minutes, infact wingers/strikers playing 30 full games a season is fairly average, which is 2700 minutes.
The problem is Malouda wasn't even fastastic last year, scoring almost all his goals in games Chelsea utterly utterly dominated where his goals made no difference. 12 goals and 9 assists is decent, but by no means world class for a winger. Pires would routinely score 15 and above with a bunch of assists and he very rarely played the whole season.
It really wouldn't take all that much to prise Bale away, and come the end of the season(or Jan) if real offers come in they won't be the BS 50million ones we've seen.
As for saying if I say so, Ronaldo was significantly better and impacted the entire season, theres really no opinion about it, he did, 3 goals isn't even remotely close to 17. PS that season at 21 he got 26 goals, and 20 assists in all competitions, of which only 3 of the goals were for Portugal, everything else was for Utd, at 21. Again Bale did not come remotely close to that Bale played the best part of 20 games in the league alone, more in the cups I don't know. Ronaldo started 58 games that year, again multiply Bales stats by 3 and you still don't come remotely close to true world class effectiveness.
Consistancy is the MAJOR difference between world class and flavour of the month players. This season, in 18 starts, he's got assists in a single game, and got goals in 3 games I believe, but the majority of his goals and ALL his assists, came against ONE player Consistancy and world class status, or even world class potential would include the ability to shine against more than one player, but thats just me.
Don't we already know that Bent was on more than 65k a week, and VDV, 45k a week, you're having a laugh aren't you. I'm sure he agreed to come to Spurs and get paid substanstially less than many of the other players there.
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( to be fair, you'd have to see how much extra champs league cash actually effects them, but if you get 2-3 players including VDV their wages will eat the entire CL income).