Report: D.C. United in talks with Gareth Bale

D.C. United have "exchanged proposals" with star winger Gareth Bale, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

The MLS club initially spoke with the 32-year-old Welsh captain's representatives months ago "but it didn't go anywhere," the newspaper's soccer writer posted on Twitter.

In a reply to his own tweet, the writer characterized a scenario that would bring Bale to the nation's capital as "very far-fetched."

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