“I don't care what they say, my family and I know who I am”

Gareth Bale has returned to the charge after his departure from Real Madrid heading back to Tottenham and, after the controversial statements of Jonathan Barnett assuring that the whites should “step on the ground on which the Welshman steps”, he has assured that he “does not regret” having left the Santiago Bernabéu. However, and aware of the seven years he has spent in Spain, where he has won everything, he assures that this is where he “has grown up” despite the criticism he has received in recent times.

“Not, I do not regret anything. I just want to play soccer, that's all I can do and everything else, whatever is said from the outside, is beyond my control. As I have said, I do not regret what I have done, whatever whoever says it, because that is already up to him. I know what I think of myself and my family knows very well who I am, that's all that worries me, “says the 31-year-old in an interview for Sky Sports.

“It is clear that going to A different culture, a different country, makes you grow as a person, and I am not telling you as a footballer. You have to learn to face situations in which you find yourself involved, and, obviously, I have been under situations of immense pressure. There have been people who have whistled at me inside the stadium“, Bale says, surprised, who has left on loan to play under Mourinho's orders.” So yes, I've learned to deal with that kind of thing, not to take it too seriously or too personallySo I live with it It is football, something you love to practice and in which you simply have to give the best of yourself. Sometimes that's the only thing you can do. “

'I just want to play'

In addition, and about his second spell at Tottenham, a team that he left due to a then-record transfer that touched 100 million euros, the Welshman says he is eager to help the team take another step. “When you come to a new team what you want is to do well, to help the team as much as possible. We have a great team that has been doing very well. Obviously since I left the club has not stopped growing; they reached a final Champions League, they have a new stadium and every year they do better in the Premier, “he says despite the fact that the Spurs were relegated last year to sixth place. “What I want is to add to all that and try to give a little more to the team. You have to try to progress and keep moving in the right direction.”

All this despite the fact that, after barely counting for 20 games last season for Zidane, a knee injury will delay his debut under the orders of José Mourinho. “I just want to play, put on the Spurs jersey again. It is a very big disappointment that the fans will not be able to be there for my first game, because I feel like they would have given me an incredible welcome. Even so, now the only thing that I want to play football, play with the team, and do my best individually and collectively so that we have a great season. “