Some of the best tweets as the country reacts to Bale’s £85m fee and his £300k-per-week wage packet…
To all the Spurs fans, your support the last 6 years has been incredible and I’ll never forget it, thank you #COYS
— Gareth Bale (@GarethBale11) September 2, 2013
Kettering Town, who were in the Conference a couple of years ago, were wound up today. The debt was less than Bale earns every 3 days. :o( — Miles Jacobson (@milesSI) September 2, 2013
Wait, what? Bale has gone to Real Madrid for £85.3m? You should have said @SkySportsNews — Dudley Patience (@DudleyPatience_) September 2, 2013
Dear Sky Sports, we know Gareth Bale has gone to Real Madrid and he spoke a bit of Spanish. No need to repeat it. Thanks from everyone — Phil (@PhilKSS) September 2, 2013
Now it’s been announced that Bale’s gone, I feel I can finally give my honest opinion… Gareth… your hair is terrible k bye. — Sam Hepher (@Spurred_On) September 1, 2013
Gareth Bale’s wage breakdown at Madrid: Yearly: £15,600,000 Monthly: £1,200,000 Weekly: £300,000 Daily: £42,857 Hourly: £2,040 Minute: £34 — TheSPORTBible (@TSBible) September 1, 2013
Gareth Bale’s £86m transfer fee would cover just the interest on the UK’s government debt for 16 hours and 12 minutes. #Balenomics — Oliver Cooper (@OliverCooper) September 2, 2013
I have contacted the Prime Minister regarding Gareth Bale’s obscene transfer fee. pic.twitter.com/cUiMqgqdgx
— Iain Duncan Smith MP (@IDS_MP) September 2, 2013
Ronaldo’s reaction to Bale transfer fee captured! pic.twitter.com/K8Ki7b98HH
— Nemanja Vidic (@mufcrelated) September 1, 2013
People moaning about footballers wages do my nut in. Andy Murray earns more than Gareth Bale, but Murray is a British sports hero. How come? — Alan Ravenhill (@ALRavenhill) September 2, 2013
Gareth Bale can already afford to buy 12,000 cans of Tango with his Real Madrid wages http://t.co/4OR7LyzHgK — When Saturday Comes (@WSC_magazine) September 2, 2013
Don’t compare Bale earning £15m a season to nurses/teachers wages. Compare it to S.Bullock getting $15m a film or Madonna earning $50m p/a
— Joseph Richardson (@gradulthood_jr) September 2, 2013
I disapprove of the whole saga but given his stupid wages, please tell me at least one tabloid rag went with the headline, “Bale Makes Hay”?
— David (@theplaguedoc) September 2, 2013
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