Reply With Quoterate these days is that which someone is prepared to pay. They are buying players with the best potential, along with Barca who bought Neymar. With Ronaldo they bought a proven, finished, article, who had already done it on the biggest stage.
Bale had flashes of brilliance in the CL, but a certain Paul Vaessen did Juventus for us back in the day, John Hartson scored in a Euro final, so those can be one off's that you can't measure until you see him in there with a team that has a fair chance of winning. I wish him well. Of course, you know he's gonna murder one of us in the CL this year.
