Bale fee was not enough – Sherwood

Tottenham got a world-record fee for Gareth Bale but head coach Tim Sherwood cannot help feeling they were short-changed.

After a marvellous few years at White Hart Lane, the 24-year-old last summer swapped north London for Real Madrid in a record-breaking 100m euro (£85.3million) deal.

What has happened in football that people can’t see anything objectively anymore and can’t react to an event without grossly exaggerating?

The fact that Bale cost more than Ronaldo was insane enough but now because he’s scored one goal against a Barcelona team imploding at the seams, what that means Real Madrid got him cheap?

Maybe if Tottenham didn’t fritter that money away and spent it properly and hired a proper replacement for Villas-Boas instead of hiring no-idea-what-he’s-doing-wood as a stop gap then this story wouldn’t exist.

What happened to waiting for a player to have two or three years playing at a consistently high level before he’s considered world class?

Now any player shows any promise for five minutes and he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, I’m not talking about Bale here I’m talking in general, it’s stupid and needs to stop because it’s becoming very wearisome.