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Zidane: “No player is worth €100 million”

By on September 9, 2013
Zinedine Zidane has become the latest football star to admit the €100 fee Real Madrid payed for Gareth Bale is "incomprehensible."

Zinedine Zidane has become the latest football star to admit the €100 fee Real Madrid payed for Gareth Bale is “incomprehensible.”

Zinedine Zidane has described Real Madrid’s world-record €100 million acquisition of Gareth Bale of being “incomprehensible” and admitted that “no player is worth €100 million.”  Madrid’s new assistant manager has told French TV channel Canal Plus that it’s to early to access whether Bale is worth the astonishing €100m figure Madrid paid Tottenham Hotspur on the summer transfer window’s deadline day, which Tottenham, just to show how massive the amount of money is, can spend on buying the entire population of Slovenia their 2013/14 home jerseys, with nearly €2m left over.

The ex-France captain has, while also highly praising Madrid’s newest signing, rightfully questioned if Bale is really worth the hefty fee paid for him, telling Canal Plus:  “The question of whether he’s actually worth the price paid for him should be asked in a year, because they paid €75 million for me ten years ago and I myself said I wasn’t worth that much.”

“I would say that a player is not really worth that much. The clubs agree on a price and nobody forces them to do that, but that’s how football works, unfortunately. It’s baffling seeing how much they end up paying when you consider what’s happening in the world these days”.

However, Zidane said he is ready to offer advice to Bale and improve the Welsh international’s skills.

“My role will be to tell him to play his football the way he knows how, and not to pressure himself too much”, said the former attacking-midfielder.

“He has an incredible potential. Over the last three years he’s shown himself to be one of the best players out there. He could still improve too, being just 24 years old.”

Bale is expected to make his Madrid debut against Villarreal on September 14th after returning from international duty, and will be looking to improve on the outstanding form he produced at Tottenham last season.

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