Gareth Bale reveals new Cardiff City takeover offer after seeing bid rejected

Gareth Bale has confirmed that the consortium he is fronting has tabled a new offer to purchase Cardiff City which he hopes the club's current owner, Vincent Tan, will 'take seriously'.

Bale, 35, is fronting a group of investors who are seeking to acquire his home club, who were relegated from the Championship last season. The Bluebirds have been owned by Tan since 2010 and its estimated the Malaysian businessman has invested north of £200million during his tenure.

It was reported earlier this month that an offer worth around £40m was put to Tan, who rejected said proposal and is understood to have little appetite to sell.

But Bale has now revealed that a 'brand new offer' has been put to the Cardiff chief in the hope of achieving a deal.

"It's exciting news, we have a brand new offer on the table, it's recently just gone in," the former Real Madrid and Wales star said on Front Office Sports Today.

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"We think it's a great offer, one that we're very happy with. We think it's very fair, if not more than fair, and it's something we hope the current owners will take serious.

"We'd love them to accept so we can take full control and get on with what we want to do and create Cardiff into a club that we know it can be."

Though Bale never played for Cardiff in his stellar playing career, the Welshman has made no secret of his desire to acquire the club and help it fulfil its potential.

Cardiff will play in the third tier of English football for the first time since the 2002-03 campaign following their relegation last term but Bale and Co have aspirations of taking the club back into the Premier League should they succeed in a takeover.

He told Sky Sports in June: "It [Cardiff] is a club close to my heart. It's where I grew up and I would love to be able to be a part of growing Cardiff and taking it to the Premier League where it belongs.

"I know how amazing the Welsh fans and Cardiff fans are. It would be amazing to try and do something together.

"We are trying to engage with Cardiff and more news will come out on that in the future but hopefully we can get something done."

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