Gareth Bale: Cardiff City step up attempt to signal Wales captain after Real Madrid exit
Cardiff City are stepping up their efforts to drag off the implausible signing of Wales captain Gareth Bale.
Bluebirds chairman Mehmet Dalman has flown into the UK to gu negotiations.
Bale, 32, is to be had on a loose switch having left Real Madrid after 9 years in Spain, at some point of which he gained 5 Champions League titles.
On Sunday, his deflected loose-kick secured Wales' 1-zero win over Ukraine and an area on the World Cup in Qatar.
A go back to Tottenham or a flow to a Major League Soccer membership withinside the United States have additionally been mooted as viable alternatives as Bale seems to spherical off his stellar career.But Championship membership Cardiff also are withinside the picture.
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Bale became born in Cardiff but, having had spells at Southampton, Tottenham and Real Madrid, he has in no way performed membership soccer in Wales.
Cardiff are visible as an choice due to the fact Bale's number one attention is to guide Wales of their first World Cup for sixty four years.
But Cardiff are searching past Qatar in November and December. They wish that imparting Bale the danger to guide them returned into the Premier League might be a using issue at the back of him signing a settlement even past the 2022-23 season.
Financially, Cardiff are up towards it. At Real, Bale earned £600,000 according to week, extra than the weekly salary invoice of Cardiff's first-crew squad.
But Bale is thought to be open to taking a considerable pay cut, even as the flow could have big advertising and marketing attraction for the membership.
Cardiff are refusing to comment.