Gareth Bale’s €46 million dream: Former Tottenham, Real star bids to buy hometown club

Former Wales and Real Madrid prima Gareth Bale is reportedly preparing a melodramatic instrumentality to football, but not connected the pitch, raher, successful the boardroom. The 35-year-old, who retired successful 2023, is starring a consortium bidding to acquisition Cardiff City, the nine based successful his hometown. Bale has submitted an connection exceeding €46 cardinal to get the Welsh side, a determination that would spot him wage little than fractional of the €99 cardinal Real Madrid shelled retired for his services backmost successful 2013. The erstwhile Galáctico said, “We’re funny successful Cardiff. It’s my hometown club, wherever I grew up, and my uncle (Chris Pike) played for them,” arsenic quoted by MARCA. Cardiff City, precocious relegated to League One, is presently owned by Malaysian businessman Vincent Tan, who is reportedly unfastened to selling.

The nine has already rejected an undisclosed archetypal connection from Bale’s consortium, but talks are expected to continue.

Earlier reports stated that Bale’s radical had explored acquiring different clubs, including a failed effort to bargain Plymouth Argyle. However, his involvement successful Cardiff appears profoundly idiosyncratic and long-term. “Being portion of an ownership radical would beryllium a imagination travel true,” Bale said. “I’d emotion to beryllium portion of Cardiff’s maturation and instrumentality it to the Premier League, wherever it deserves to be.”

If successful, Bale would articulation a increasing database of footballers turning owners, pursuing the likes of David Beckham and Gerard Piqué, arsenic helium aims to thrust Cardiff’s resurgence from League One backmost to the apical flight.