Gareth Bale’s future will be decided in the next 48 hours, the Mail on Sunday reports.

Tottenham owner Joe Lewis will take control of talks over the sale of the Welshman to Real Madrid — and he will not settle for less than £100million in cash for his star man.

The Bahamas-based billionaire will meet Real Madrid president Florentino Perez in Miami or Phoenix, along with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.

Lewis knows Perez is under massive pressure to land Bale for Madrid and Real may try to negotiate payment of the transfer fee in instalments to avoid falling foul of the financial fair play rules. 

But if the Spaniards want five years to complete payment, Spurs could try to push the transfer fee up to £120m.

The Sunday People reports that Real Madrid will agree a world record fee for Gareth Bale – but only want to pay £20million up front.

But Levy will push for better terms than the instalment plan Madrid are hoping for, with the Spanish giants aiming to spread their massive £100m transfer outlay across several seasons.

Bale has already started looking ahead to life in Spain and has even made plans to take a childhood friend with him to help him settle.