The Gunners broke their club record transfer fee when they forked out £42.5 million to bring the Germany international to the Premier League from Madrid on deadline day in summer 2013. However, Law explained that the deal might have never gone ahead if it wasn’t for negotiations that were taking place across town. “Real Madrid, for all of their firepower, really stretched themselves when they bought Bale,” he told Goal. “They paid an extraordinary amount of money for him and they gave him an extraordinary contract, what that meant was they needed to sell somebody. So it’s the Bale story that leads us to Ozil. “We got signals from Madrid that they had players for sale, so I...
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