Open Thread: July 8, 2021 Share this story The Open Thread/Daily Merengue is a place where you can discuss anything and everything related to football. Feel free to discuss the topics presented here, or start your very own discussions! The Open thread will be posted every day by one of the mods: Valyrian Steel, Felipejack, YoSnail, Ezek Ix or NeRObutBlanco. Pre-season continues. Rumours. Bale is not retiring, he wants to complete his contract with Real Madrid; Miguel Gutiérrez has an loan offer from Getafe and Arsenal is also considering paying his release clause. However, Real asked player to stay at Castilla, while he’ll be regularly called up for the first team;