Gareth Bale has joined Tottenham from Real Madrid.
The captain of Wales has made a remarkable return to the Premier League, seven years after signing for the Madrid Spurs in what is a record move of 86 million pounds.
The 31-year-old flew to London on Friday after completing training in Madrid, and the Spurs agreed to pay about 20 million pounds in salaries and loan fees.
He joined through teammate Sergio Reguilón, who also moved from Real to the Spurs on a separate five-year contract.
“It’s great to be back. It’s such a special club for me where I made a call for myself, what an amazing club with amazing fans, it’s amazing to be back,” Bale said on the club’s website.
“I hope that now I can get back in shape, get going and help the team win trophies.
“When I left, I had the idea that I would love to come back one day, the opportunity has presented and I feel it’s smart to have compatibility at the right time.
“I’m hungry and motivated to do well for the team. I can’t wait to get started. “
“When I go to Madrid and win trophies, and when I go with the Wales team, I have this winning mentality.
“You don’t realize it all the way there in the final and in those situations. I hope I can convince everyone that we can win trophies. The purpose is to do that this season, I need to return that mindset to Tottenham. “
“Since I left the club built, the stadium is incredible, the floor is bigger than before. This is an exciting time. “
Bale, who has won two La Liga titles, 4 Champions League trophies, such as the Copa del Rey in a trophy-laden stage in Spain, will wear jersey number nine for Spurs.
It’s been an eventful year for Bale, who fell off his coach Zinedine Zidane, with whom he shared a tense date in Madrid, and almost went to Chinese team Jiangsu Suning last summer.
The player revealed in an interview with Sky Sports last September that he would be open to returning to the Premier League if the Spanish club let him go.
Bale controlled only 3 goals in 20 games for Real Madrid last season, but has now returned to the club where he has made a call as one of the world’s footballers.
It will take up to a month for the player to be perfectly fit, as it is the firepower of a team that already features Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
Tottenham’s head coach, José Mourinho, recently admitted that he had been a fan of the player, but did not signal him when he controlled Real Madrid.
Mourinho added that the Spanish club had followed his and bought the player after Mourinho left Madrid in 2013.
Ben Ransom, journalist for Sky Sports News in Madrid . . .
On Thursday, when Gareth Bale left Real Madrid’s education flat for the last time, his departure was greeted with apathy among the dozen enthusiasts waiting at the gates to see his heroes.
Compared to Luka Modric’s cry for giving them like a wave, I was surprised at how Bale fell into the public eye here.
Both players joined Tottenham Hotspur after notable seasons and both played a key role in winning no less than four Champions League titles.
But the similarities end there, because it will tarnish his inability to fully embrace what it means to be a Real Madrid player.
I have heard many complaints from Bale about my stay here, from other media professionals and supporters, with the highest accusation not unusual for her inability to integrate into Spanish culture, seven years of permanence.
Not learning the language has undoubtedly left Bale here in the public eye, as he has never been fully linked to them, and vice versa.
No wonder then hear anecdotes about him that gradually become ingested over time and seeking solace on the golf course.
This is despite Bale proceeding to rejoice on the field with moments of natural magic, such as the aerial kick against Liverpool in 2018, one of two targets that returned the European Cup to the city for the 13th time.
Goals like this deserve to have explained the race, and perhaps one day the enthusiasts here will reflect on all the smart things Bale has done for the club, rather than focusing on the inconveniences.
The injuries have wreaked havoc and almost caused the same player as much frustration as the club paying his salary.
A complicated date with Zinedine Zidane has further reduced Bale’s playing time, and Zidane’s preference to get rid of the type that was once the world’s top player is maximum productivity for all games.
I’ll have to go up that I found little animosity for Bale. Many enthusiasts only wish him the best for the future, but in many tactics it only reinforces the lack of hobby within this relationship.
Despite an incredibly beloved marriage, The Whites have never earned Gareth Bale’s heart, perhaps a return to their old love in north London once unlocks their love of football.
Bale has enjoyed much of his good luck on the right wing and, despite the notorious White Hart Lane chants reminding Harry Redknapp that he is betting left, that’s where the 31-year-old striker would expect to be deployed back to the Premier League.
In the fall of his career, those accelerations on the outside are likely to be rarer, but Bale will actually retain the ability to cut inside and locate enough area to shoot from a distance with his favorite left foot, which makes him better than almost anyone else.
In the final season of his first season with the Spurs, Bale scored no less than nine Premier League goals from outside the area, which equates to the combination of the two most productive players of the season. In fact, no one has controlled to fit, this in general since.
Even after a season of relative inactivity, clubs are interested in this type of firepower. Manchester United’s search for Jadon Sancho indicates that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is not yet in a position to hand over the right-wing role to Mason Greenwood alone and needs more than just an MP.
Read our full article here to read why Bale chose Tottenham over Man Utd and can be successful in the Premier League again.
Reducing playing time raises the question of whether Bale still possesses the strength and dexterity that galactic prestige earned him in 2013.
He has never finished more than 75% of the imaginable minutes in a La Liga season, basically due to injury and, more recently, misfortune, allowing him to score 31% of imaginable minutes last season.
The interactive chart below shows a diversity of statistics up to 90, revealing how much their numbers have fallen in recent seasons after reaching their peak with Madrid in 2015/16.
Since 2018/19, Bale has averaged fewer goals and created fewer opportunities, while its frequency of haggling attempts has decreased in five of the last six campaigns.
It is attractive to note that his number of recovered balls has decreased significantly in a time after his move to Madrid, which may be the result of his adaptation to the taste of the league, but José Mourinho waits longer and needs the tension of the Spurs. above the field.
Bale has basically deployed as a right winger with 174 openings in the position since 2013/14, but he has also had a lot of luck on the left with 20 goals in just 36 appearances, while he can also provide much-needed policy for Harry. Kane, up.
How do you compare to the most productive of the five most sensible European leagues?
Last season, his returns through the 1990s were still among the elite in terms of opposing surface touches and jumps won, but, as the radar chart below shows, he threw mediocre figures for most attack stats.
During factoring, he played for the elected champions of La Liga and his years of advancement, there are marks left on whether the Welsh magician has lost his hunger in the Real or his advantage.
The signings of Gareth Bale and Sergio Reguilon can cause the Tottenham team to be replaced when José Mourinho completes one of the biggest tactical adjustments of his long and illustrious coaching career.
Bale’s return would be a first blow to the Spurs and would rekindle the enthusiasm of the fans, but it would be up to Mourinho to make the most of his undeniable ability. The acquisition of Bale’s young partner at Real Madrid may be key to achieving this.
This will bring a formation replacement, evoked since the arrival of MourinhoArray.
Read the full article on how Bale and Reguilon’s signatures will be a taste for the Tottenham game
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