As the Gareth Bale transfer saga continues on, new reports suggest that midfielder will be giving Tottenham the silent treatment as a way to force his way in with Real Madrid.
Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas has confirmed that Bale is not even discussing his future with his Tottenham teammates as the club grow increasingly closer to selling him.
Villas-Boas said: "His mental state nobody knows because the player doesn't speak. The only thing that we are able to see is the player arriving in and out of the training ground. It's fine."
Villas-Boas has already ruled Bale out of contention for their opening three games of the season, while chairman Daniel Levy is determined to take strong stand despite Bale doing everything possible to push a transfer through.
"Obviously he is very far off regarding his fitness compared to the others. So it will take some time to bring him back to the level that the others are after six weeks. But the player is a super athlete," added Villas-Boas.
"We've been very, very clear with everybody regarding the player and our willingness to hold onto him. But obviously in football anything can happen in the end.
"However, this is a player we cherish a lot and who has helped us progress. Ideally we want to continue with him.
"We are aware that Real Madrid are interested. But it doesn't mean that we are willing to negotiate about him."
Real's president Florentino Perez has insisted on several different occasions that the Spanish giants are prepared to make a world record bid for Bale, but Levy is holding out on a £105million bid and has not considered anything higher than £85m they are understood to have offered.
Perez has insisted that the offer they've placed on the table is more than enough.
He said: "If I do not talk about names, I do not talk about money.
"[But] 100 (euros) million seems a lot to me, a lot for everything."
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