La Liga giants are desperate to keep their Wales flier away from Manchester United and the rest of Europe’s big spenders
REAL MADRID plan to make Gareth Bale the highest-paid player on the planet — with a £195million deal.
The Spanish giants want to give star Bale, 27, a new £750,000-a-week, five-year contract.
Bosses are eager to keep Bale out of the clutches of Manchester United — as well as Europe’s other big spenders.
His current £525,000-a-week contract does not run out until the summer of 2019.
But Los Blancos want to tie the former Tottenham ace down before their Fifa transfer ban kicks in next year. They cannot register new players over the next two windows.
Bale’s Madrid team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo is also in negotiations over a similar bank-busting deal — although Real are stalling on offering him a five-year contract as he will be 32 in February.
With Spain’s top rate of tax sitting at 52 per cent, both players are seeking annual net salaries of around £20m.
Such eye-watering sums would even eclipse the £18m after-tax salary of Barcelona’s Lionel Messi.
Real have already given new long-term mega-deals to key midfielders Luka Modric and Toni Kroos with the transfer ban looming over them.
Bale was the most- expensive player in the world when he moved from Tottenham for £86million in 2013.
But he was overtaken by Paul Pogba’s £89m switch to Manchester United this summer.
Bale has bagged the Champions League twice during his Madrid stint.
