{"id":72949,"date":"2025-07-11T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=72949"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:34:58","slug":"gareth-bale-makes-brand-new-offer-to-buy-cardiff-city-after-seeing-bid-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/gareth-bale-makes-brand-new-offer-to-buy-cardiff-city-after-seeing-bid-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Bale Makes Brand New Offer To Buy Cardiff City After Seeing Bid Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales legend Gareth Bale has confirmed that his consortium has submitted a fresh bid to buy Cardiff City. The former Real Madrid and Tottenham winger is hoping that Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan will &ldquo;take the new offer seriously&rdquo; as he seeks to take over his hometown club.<\/p><p>Bale, who is fronting a group of investors, previously saw an initial &pound;40 million offer turned down by Tan. However, speaking on Front Office Sports Today, the 35-year-old revealed a &ldquo;brand new offer&rdquo; is now on the table as he looks to spearhead Cardiff&rsquo;s return to the Premier League.<\/p><p>Bale revealed,<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s exciting news, we have a brand new offer on the table, it&rsquo;s recently just gone in. We think it&rsquo;s a great offer, one that we&rsquo;re very happy with. We think it&rsquo;s very fair, if not more than fair, and it&rsquo;s something we hope the current owners will take serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;d love them to accept so we can take full control and get on with what we want to do and create Cardiff into a club that we know it can be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wales great Gareth Bale says the consortium he leads has submitted a &ldquo;brand new offer&rdquo; to buy Cardiff City &#127988;&#917607;&#917602;&#917623;&#917612;&#917619;&#917631;&#9917;&#65039;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ufnj0VQNz\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/1Ufnj0VQNz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Sport Wales (@BBCSportWales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSportWales\/status\/1943593522503823646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>July 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bale&rsquo;s Long-Held Cardiff Dream<\/h2><p>Bale retired from football in January 2023 after a decorated career with Southampton, Tottenham, Real Madrid, and LAFC. The Welshman has long expressed a desire to own and transform Cardiff City, calling it &ldquo;a dream come true&rdquo; in his earlier interviews. Despite never playing for the Bluebirds, he hopes to lead the club back into the Premier League after their relegation from the Championship last season.<\/p><p>The Welsh club are currrently under the management of Brian Barry-Murphy. Under his reign, Cardiff City are preparing for their first season in the third tier since 2002-03 after finishing bottom of the Championship. Malaysian businessman Tan has owned Cardiff since 2010 and has invested over &pound;200 million during his tenure but is understood to have little interest in selling.<\/p><p>Cardiff City has not yet publicly commented on the latest offer from Bale&rsquo;s consortium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales legend Gareth Bale has long expressed a desire to own and transform Cardiff City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4038],"tags":[8073],"class_list":["post-72949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","tag-gareth-bale"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gareth Bale Makes Brand New Offer To Buy Cardiff City After Seeing Bid Rejected - 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