09 June 2014

Gareth Bale Tops Best 2013 Signing Of The Year

Many of the players that figured in the nomination list for the 2013 Ballon d'Or changed clubs last summer. And after a full season, it is the name of Gareth Bale that comes out on top of the rookies starting afresh in new sides.

Bale has gone off on holiday with a Champions League medal in one hand and a Spanish Cup medal in the other, and both matches were decided in the dying minutes with his goals.

Those goals helped Real Madrid to two historic victories and filled Cibeles on two separate nights, and despite a tentative start, he finished the season with some more than decent stats. The fact that the first few months were difficult for him makes it even harder to believe how he managed to play a total of 44 matches.


Bale also managed 22 goals and 16 assists in his first year at the club and all that without ever quite being 100% fit. In total, he was involved in 38 goals, one every 87 minutes. From a starting position out wide he has managed as many goals as other top number nines in European football.

Of the new boys, it is Cavani who has the highest number of goals hitting 25 in his first season at PSG. Meanwhile the best goal-per-minute average goes to Negredo who got one every 111 minutes playing for Manchester City, followed by Higuaín at Naples who got one every 145 minutes and Bale every 151 minutes.

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