If You Can't Beat Him, Buy Him:I nter Milan to Make Big Bid for Gareth Bale

From Goal.com:

Inter are set to bid £40 million (€46.4m) in the summer for Tottenham star Gareth Bale, according to The Guardian.

If successful, the move would shatter the transfer record for a British player and will put the 21-year-old among an illustrious group of players.

The fee has only been beaten by transfers involving Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Kaka and Zinedine Zidane.

Maybe they just figured if Bale was going to be skinning international defenders like Maicon, better that he be doing it for them rather than to them.