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The Premiership big four are set for a bidding war for £7million-rated Southampton full-back Gareth Bale, according to reports.Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool have been alerted after Saints chairman Michael Wilde revealed the club would have to sell in the January transfer window in order to sign new players.
Manager George Burley spent £7 million in the summer rebuilding his squad and Wilde told the Daily Mirror: "£7million is not a small sum for a club like ours. If we wanted to bring in anyone new in January it might depend on us having to offload players."
Bale has been watched on a number of occasions by Chelsea, United and Liverpool while Arsene Wenger is known to be a big fan of the 17 year-old left-back - who became Wales youngest ever player when he made his debut against Slovakia last month.
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Credit: Yahoo! Sport
I haven't actually seen Bale play, but I've heard some great things about him and it would certainly seem like he has a great future in the game, so I wouldn't mind seeing him make the move to United. Though I believe due to their time together at the Saints, him and Theo are quite friendly so that could lure him to Arsenal I guess. But either way, from the look of this article, he'll be Premiership bound come January with perhaps a mini-bidding war for the youngster.