If people power counts for anything, Gareth Bale will sign on the dotted line for Cardiff City in the coming days.
After that utter nonsense he had to put up with at Real Madrid, you'd hope the love he so evidently has in his home city would count for something.
Bale may have been a villain to sections of the Madrid fan base and media; the precise opposite would be the case here. There could be no bigger sporting idol in the Welsh capital.
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Cardiff fans have made their views absolutely crystal clear. They are desperate to see Wales' captain put pen to paper on a contract with his home town club. They want Bale, they love Bale, they'd afford Bale far more latitude for the odd poor performance than he'd get from any other club fan base anywhere else on earth.
Bale won't be hearing the horrible comments, nor reading the negative headlines here.
He already knows, from Wales duty, what that kind of love-in from his own people means and how it helps inspire him to such incredible deeds in the red of his country. If you're happy in your work, you tend to give of your best.
Bale's last months in Spain can't have been comfortable for him. Yes he was picking up a sizeable pay packet, said to be £650,000 a week. Nice money if you can get it.
But given the way things soured so toxically, he will also have been relieved it's come to an end.
So, what next? Bale is genuinely considering Cardiff. It's his chance to come home, do the ordinary day to day things most of us take for granted - be at his own house, the school run, around those who love him the most.
Same for his wife Emma Rhys-Jones, who also comes from the Welsh capital.
These are strong emotional pulls. It is hoped they yet sway the day and the highly improbable of Cardiff City landing a footballer of Bale's stature actually happens.
On the other hand, this is perhaps Bale's final chance of a really big pay day and there are clubs in America keen to offer that opportunity. Indeed, DC United are said to be keen to pay Bale a bigger salary than the one they stumped up to attract Wayne Rooney to the United States.
Other clubs hover too. Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham, German teams. A higher standard of football.
This is a highly complicated, and indeed delicate, situation. Which way will Bale turn? Cardiff, we understand, have put together as impressive a package as possible given the circumstances. But if Bale comes home it will be very much for personal reasons, rather than finance.
And tied into everything is what's best for his World Cup dream. Is that the Championship, where Bale could work closely with Wales' medics who are also based at Cardiff's training HQ on the outskirts of the city?
Would it be in America, where the standard of football is clearly lower and far less physical? Could it even be in the Premier League still, or on the continent?
These are among the issues Bale is weighing up together with his close advisors before setting upon a decision.
Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett says that call 'will be made in the next few days'. This is because Bale shortly heads out for a proper summer holiday and won't be back until mid-July.
He knows it wouldn't be fair to keep Cardiff, or that adoring Welsh fan base, hanging on. One way or the other, closure is needed on this. For the last few transfer windows, Bale has very much been the dominant figure capturing the headlines. Historically it was whether he was joining Manchester United, or Tottenham. This summer it has very much been about the Bluebirds.
For me, it's win-win if he joins Cardiff. Bale would raise the profile of the club, give them a greater chance of pushing towards promotion and be in around a fan base who'd loudly sing his name and who'd barely have a bad word to say about him.
That love from his own people would surely help Bale's football, thus prepare him best for the World Cup? He'd be incredibly happy in his work, and that certainly wasn't the case towards the end of his time with Real Madrid where, for me, he wasn't afforded the respect he deserved.
Coming home has to be a strong pull in every sense, not least for that World Cup dream.
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