In September 2013, Bale transferred to Real Madrid for 8,530 pounds, equivalent to 100 million euros, which was the highest price at the time.

Real Madrid is a club with quite unique characteristics, and these characteristics are not only reflected in Real Madrid's achievements and honors - Real Madrid loves to buy world-class stars to form a galactico. All players are the best, even substitutes. However, no world-class big-name player can surpass Real Madrid.

In Real Madrid, the dragon has to coil up and the tiger has to lie down; no player can be bigger than the club.

This is also the reason why even though Ronaldo is so strong, Real Madrid wants to suppress Ronaldo from within and keep looking for his replacement.

In Real Madrid's view, if Ronaldo is allowed to dominate the team, he will definitely not want to give up his core position when he gets old, which will inevitably cause unpleasantness with the club and will inevitably damage the club's performance.

Therefore, even though Ronaldo is already the unrivaled star of the league, Real Madrid still deliberately suppresses Ronaldo.

Because Real Madrid firmly believes that there are no century-old players, only century-old clubs.

Real Madrid has a rule that any player over 30 years old, regardless of their status, can only sign a contract once a year as long as they are over 30 years old.

It is impossible to retire in Real Madrid.

Of course there are exceptions, such as Bale, who Real Madrid spent 100 million euros to buy as Ronaldo's replacement.

Before C Ronaldo started his retirement life, Bale has already started his retirement life in Real Madrid. Before C Ronaldo retired, Bale has already retired and started playing professional golf.

But no matter what, the wealthy Real Madrid gave Tottenham a transfer fee of 100 million euros.

In 2013, prices were not so high and money had not depreciated so much. 100 million euros was really, really, really a lot of money.

Before Ray took over, Tottenham Hotspur had always been at the lower-middle level in the Premier League. After Ray took over, the club began to move into the upper-middle level of the Premier League and embarked on the road of Bai Lily's revival.

However, the real revival began with the inflow of 100 million euros.

Tottenham used the 100 million euros to supplement the club's operating funds and improve the club's training facilities, especially those for the youth teams. The direct beneficiary of this improvement was Harry Kane, the future legendary captain of Tottenham.

In addition, Tottenham also signed seven strong players including Paulinho, Eriksen, Soldado, Chadli, Capoue, Ziricches and Lamela, which greatly improved Tottenham's overall strength.

One year later, in 2015, Tottenham used 30 million euros of the money to sign Son Heung-min from Bundesliga Leverkusen.

At this point, Tottenham's road to revival is getting wider and wider.

Of course, it was also from this time that the players' values ​​began to rise.

What? Bale was sold for 100 million, but my golden boy Torres was only sold for 58 million? He needs to pay more! What? Torres, who doesn't score, can be sold for 58 million, so Suarez must be sold for 86 million! What? Suarez, who bit someone, can still be sold for 86 million? Then Pogba, who is loved by everyone, must be sold for 105 million?

What? Pogba can ask for 105 million? Then it is normal for Neymar to ask for 222 million, right? Such a price also made the old stars in the past stunned. They originally thought that 10 or 20 million pounds was already a sky-high transfer price, but they didn't expect the price pressure to get more and more severe. If they had known this, they would have been born a few years later...

Having said that, Bale's fame and value are indeed greater than his ability, but Bale's true strength is definitely one of the strongest wingers of this era. His speed and burst, especially his ability to overtake directly from the backcourt, were indeed almost unmatched during his peak period from 2012 to 2015.

Aaron Lennon is the most promising super winger of this era, no doubt about it.

In 2011-2012, even Bale, who was on the same team, was not as famous as Lennon and had higher expectations.

Lennon, 23 years old, is only 169cm tall and weighs only 66kg, but he is super fast.

Let me put it this way, when Lennon was a child, he was not trained to play football, but to be a 100-meter track and field athlete.

In 2003, Lennon started his football career at Leeds United. At the age of 16 years and 129 days, he became the youngest player to appear in the Premier League. He and Milner are also known as the twin stars of Leeds United.

Even Leeds United manager David O'Leary praised Lennon in front of the media many times, calling Lennon "a future superstar with more promise than Rooney."

In 2005, Leeds United faced a financial crisis and had to reluctantly sell Lennon to Tottenham.

Lennon is short and weak in confrontation, but his speed and sprinting ability are so strong that he can often use his speed to break through the opponent's defense into a sieve.

Compared with Bale who is used to relying on physical strength, Lennon's breakthrough method is more technical. Although both of them have absolute speed advantages, Lennon's breakthrough is mixed with more changes of direction and feints.

More importantly, Lennon also has excellent crossing skills. Lennon's only shortcoming on the field is that his physical confrontation is too poor. Once he is caught up or his breakthrough path is discovered and intercepted, he will not be able to form a threatening cut inside.

But no matter what, at this period in Tottenham, Lennon and Bale were definitely the most terrifying devil wingers in the Premier League.

Logically speaking, a player like Lennon should be a world-class player, but in fact, Lennon's speed had already declined significantly in 2015.

Speed ​​players have a very serious flaw, that is, once they are injured, their advantages will be greatly reduced.

In addition, Lennon himself has poor confrontational ability, which also means that his ceiling is not too high.

In this regard, there is no comparison between Lennon and Rooney.

In 2015, Lennon's halo as a wonder boy was gone. Tottenham's new head coach Pochettino rarely gave Lennon a chance to play, and Lennon fell into depression for a long time.

Afterwards, Lennon transferred to other clubs and his depression gradually improved, but his strength and fame were far less than when he was at Tottenham.

However, in this season, Lennon is definitely the fastest winger in the Premier League, no doubt about it.

The fast cooperation between Lennon and Bale is also a symbol of Tottenham's cutting-edge attack.

In today's League Cup final, Southampton's two defensive midfielders must limit Bale and Lennon, the strongest wingers in the Premier League, otherwise, Southampton's left and right sides will be penetrated like a sieve.

...(End of this chapter)