Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
You may well be right, but he certainly had more natural talent than Walcott so he probably would have been a more effective player than he has been in his 11 years here. Walcotts' major strenght was essentially his pace, anything else needed to be taught, Bale had more than that.
We are going back a long way here. However, I can’t remember anyone anywhere mentioning Bale when we were competing with other teams including Manchester United for Walcott.

Sure we could have signed Bale, but this was not an either/or.

Can’t believe I’ve joined in such a pointless discussion.