While I don't rate Bale particularly highly, to be fair to him he isn't even fit. He only played about 30 min of Wales two qualifiers and had had about 4 training sessions in 2 months before meeting up with them.
Gibbs is better than Monreal both going forward and defending in my view. Monreal was brought in as cover because Santos turned out to be so unbelievably shit. I suspect Monreal will still get a lot of games though, because Gibbs seems to get injured all the time.
It's against the rules for a club to send someone to tap another players club up without consent, yes. I didn't post it to single out Barca, I just wanted to see if the condemnation of tapping up here would be even handed, I guess I got my answer...
If RVP were to get injured, Ozil isn't going to replace his goals the way Rooney would. To lose Rooney you'd have to replace him with more than just Ozil.
"Barcelona sent Alves and Neymar to convince me to join them, but i was clear to them. I wanted Chelsea"
"Barca made an official offer, i confirm. But I wanted Chelsea. It's a personal decision."
Classy stuff from Barca...