GARETH BALE REAL MADRID MOVE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED SAYS CATALAN MEP RAMON TREMOSA

Barcelona fan and Catalan MEP Ramon Tremosa says he wants a "transparent" view of the €101 million transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid from Tottenham in summer 2013 -- amid questions over whether the deal may have broken European Commission competition rules.
And asked in an interview by AS, Tremosa said he had not personally instigated the questioning, but was keen for all details of the transfer to be made public.
"I am one of the three MEPs who signed the question -- with a Flemish and British colleague," Tremosa said. "The initiative for the question about Bale was not mine, they invited me to join. It is happening as we want to be transparent. I do not accuse anyone, but after the reports in the Telegraph we want to clear up all the facts."
"The question asks if Madrid received money from banks which have taken public money and used it for transfers," Tremosa said. "I want this case to be investigated with same professional diligence and zeal that [Spanish finance minister Cristobal] Montoro has investigated [Lionel] Messi or Neymar. It does not seem wrong to me that the tax authorities want Barca players to fulfill their obligations -- but it also seems right to clear up where the money came from for Madrid to sign Bale."
AS also spoke to a European Commission spokesperson Ricardo Cardoso, who said his body did not look individually at each business decision that Bankia's management decided to take.
"The Commission supervises the implementation of a restructuring plan for Bankia, but does not supervise each of Bankia's commercial decisions," Cardoso said. "Although we would want their activities to be purely commercial, aimed at maximising returns."