The Independent
·11 July 2025
Gareth Bale investment group submit new offer to buy Cardiff

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·11 July 2025
The investment group involving Gareth Bale has made a new offer to buy Cardiff City.
The former Tottenham and Real Madrid star revealed that a fresh offer to take full control of the Welsh club has been tabled.
And Bale, 35, believes he is the right person to help lead the League One side back to the Premier League.
Speaking on Front Office Sports Today, Bale said: “We have a brand-new offer on the table which has recently just gone in.
“We would love them to accept so we can take full control and get on with what we want to do and create Cardiff into the club that we know it can be.”
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The investment group Bale is working with has tabled a new offer (PA Archive)
A source close to Bale says the Welshman will take a hands-on role at the club if the offer be accepted.
Asked what sort of role Bale might take on, the source said: “A very significant one. He is not going to be a bit-part player. This is a guy who has been super-successful and doesn’t need to put his name to something just for the sake of it.
“He would be heavily involved. He believes he is the right person for this. Cardiff is the only club he wants to do a deal for. Now’s the time, with the club in the doldrums, to put some TLC into the club and get them back to the Premier League.”
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Current Cardiff owner Vincent Tan (PA)
However, it is understood Bale’s camp accepts the decision to sell ultimately rests with Cardiff owner Vincent Tan.
“If (Tan) is willing to sell it, there is no better person as far as custodianship, and with the correct intentions to the place, than Gareth,” the source close to Bale said.