Real Madrid, willing to pay to get rid of Bale

Real Madrid resign themselves to Bale. He knows that getting money from his sale is an impossible mission and the only thing left to the white club is to give the footballer, and even that may not be enough, since the main impediment is the player's salary, of 14.5 million net per season, which raises spending for Madrid to 30 million per year. Bale has two seasons left on his contract, until June 2022, so Madrid has the commitment to pay him (and the Tax Agency) 60 million euros. A huge expense, the largest of the squad, in a footballer who does not appear in Zidane's plans.

Thus, 'The Telegraph' reports this Wednesday that Madrid is willing to cover half of the Welshman's salary in these two seasons if this makes it easier for him to leave from the white club, preferably a Premier League team. The choice is logical: Bale knows the English championship well, where he was named best player of the season on one occasion and twice chosen by his own colleagues as the most valuable footballer of the course. In addition, the enormous television contract of the Premier League gives its clubs economic potential, which would make it viable to find a team capable of covering the other half of Bale's contract in those two years (just over seven million clean per season).

In addition, in England there are the clubs that have most decidedly opted for trying to sign Bale over the years, although in recent years they loosened their intentions in the face of the very low level shown by Bale: Manchester United, on more than one occasion, and Tottenham, his former team, especially now that he has José Mourinho on the bench. The Portuguese has never hidden his predilection for Bale, to whom he even said in a preseason meeting in the United States: “I can't sign you because you don't speak”; Mou appealed to the Welshman to rebel to leave Madrid, to which the white club reacted by renewing his contract until 2022 and substantially increasing his salary. At the end of the 2017-18 season, Bale lost his place in the eleven, but he closed the course as a hero, with two goals (one from Chilean) in the Champions League final in Kiev, against Liverpool. That was the last spark of the Welshman; since then, nothing.

Few goals, many controversies

In football terms, his level has dropped with a bang: this season he only played 20 games, 1,260 minutes, scoring three goals and giving two assists. And he has also accumulated controversies off the field: he left several games before the final whistle in order to avoid traffic jams, was caught playing golf in matches in which he was not summoned while Madrid visited other stadiums, he made fun of the white club with his selection (that banner: “Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order”), he did it again recently in a television ad … And days ago he blamed Madrid for the situation, blaming the entity for still not finding a team: “It is in the hands of Madrid, last year I was able to leave and the club blocked it. It is making it very difficult.”