Bale's season was to forget before confinement and it is to forget after confinement. The break due to the health crisis, the time to reflect and work, to be the best in the physical tests of Madrid when the squad returned to work … Nothing has worked, the balance of the Welshman in the eleven final matches of the league championship will be 100 minutes in two duels (one starter, the other substitute), zero goals and zero assists. And the general in League does not improve excessively: 16 games, almost 1,100 minutes, two goals and two assists. He has not seen a goal in the League since the beginning of September 2019. And he will not be able to do it today for a simple reason: he is not called up.
Today's could have been the last chance for Bale to say goodbye to the Spanish League, since he knows he is on the market and that Madrid wants to take him out to please a Zidane who does not have him and, in addition, to lighten the white wage bill (Bale, with 17 million net per season, is the best paid of the template), nothing less in times of pandemic in which Madrid has lost revenue from the public in the stadium.
Yesterday afternoon, after the publication of the call, Zero Wave reported that Bale was not in it of his own free will: He had asked Zidane not to be summoned due to the little prominence that the coach from Marseille has been giving him (he has not played a minute in the last six league games). The Welshman, according to the aforementioned radio, followed the example of James Rodríguez, who already did the same before the San Mamés match against Athletic and accumulates five lists without being called by Zizou.
AS contacted the Bale environment to confirm the news of Zero Wave, but from said environment they refused to comment on it. Equally, This newspaper contacted Madrid, who denied the news and specified that Bale was out of the call due to Zidane's technical decision., in no case at the request of the British. The question is what Zidane will do in the game that will be left for Madrid after today's, the visit to the City on August 7 (and the later ones, in case of a comeback): Will Bale still be missing or will he be a weapon to search for the 14th?