Bale lives another 'black autumn'

Any season is ripe for a Bale injury, but autumn takes the cake. The Welshman has fallen again, this time after a great start to the season in which he has scored four goals, one with Madrid and three with his national team. But he returned from the break with discomfort, which was more in training last Saturday, and tests that have been carried out have confirmed a small tear in the hamstrings. An unfortunate slowdown now that it seemed indisputable for Ancelotti. More, taking into account the explosion of Vinicius, which will make it more difficult for him to regain his status when he returns.

That Bale is injured in the fall, or at the doors of autumn as now, has become a nefarious tradition. There has not been a season that has not suffered a misfortune in that season of the year since he signed for Madrid in 2013 for 101 million euros. And all muscular ailments except two. In 2016-17 he was out at this time due to a blow to the hip and last season a discomfort in the knee forced him to be unemployed for 37 days (during which time his transfer to Tottenham for one season was consummated).

Since he arrived at Madrid in 2013, Bale has missed 96 games due to injury with the white team, with which he has only been able to play half of the possible games. With Mourinho, at Tottenham, it was also the main reason for the bad relationship between the two, since the Portuguese was not used to a player who trains self-manage. Bale cannot train as much as the other players. And it has difficulty, it is obvious, to play during the week and at the weekend in a consecutive way.

At 32, Bale is in the last year of his contract with Real Madrid. Author of very important goals that have given titles such as the Cup against Barça (the career with Bartra) and two Champions (Atlético and Liverpool), he is now the highest salary of the squad together with Hazard. Both charge 15 million euros net per season. The Welshman had illusion to do a good season with Madrid that allowed him to give himself options to renew one more year, even if it was downward, with the aim of reaching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in good shape that takes place between November and December.

Your injuries can complicate everything. Real Madrid follows a very different roadmap. The one to remove the important chips of Bale himself, Marcelo and Isco, to make room for the two great stars who must arrive next season: Mbappé, who can already sign from next January 1, and Haaland, for whom Madrid will have to bid with PSG if Mbappé comes to Madrid.