Gareth Bale (31 years old) continues to dominate the spotlight. They have never left him despite leaving the discipline of Real Madrid. His season at Tottenham with Mourinho is being a real roller coaster. But the truth is that he still has contract with the white entity until 2022, that his salary (30 million euros gross) is a great slab for the future plans of the white entity and that the player himself threatens to return: “The original plan was only to do one season at Spurs, and then, after the European Championship, I still had a year left at Real Madrid. My plan is to go back and that's what I have in mind, to be honest.
White and bottled. Por Bale's head does not happen other than to return to Real Madrid next summer. Real Madrid will have to bear his salary in the salary bill and Hazard's, which it seems difficult to recover (his second ankle operation after the entry of Meunier leaves many doubts about his future). In total, 60 million euros in the salary mass of the workforce who, practically, go to limbo.
Bale faces Belgium on Wednesday in a qualifying match for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. As this newspaper has learned, the Welsh player has many hopes placed in that competition, which he wants to be his last major tournament before looking to another minor league (United States), to which he would go after having finished his contract with him. Real Madrid (which expires, precisely, in 2022) and at zero cost.
“The main reason I came to Spurs this year was that, obviously, I wanted to play football in the first place, but being on the verge of the Euro Cup, I wanted to go to that tournament in perfect shape,” Bale said in press conference this Tuesday, demonstrating that his participation with the selection of the Dragon continues to be fundamental for him and that he gives it absolute priority. The Madrid leaders have already been able to verify it since 2013, when he signed for the white team for 101 million euros.
Despite having an irregular season, Bale's numbers reveal those of any Madrid striker, and are comparable even to Benzema's, having played much less.. Bale has scored 10 goals and given 3 assists in the 25 games he has played for Tottenham. Dial every 128 minutes. Benzema does it every 119 minutes (23 goals and six assists in 32 games). In any case, and as the Welsh player himself recalls, Bale belongs to Madrid, until 2022, and his idea is to return.