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Gareth Bale believes his joy at the trophy at Real Madrid can allow Tottenham to finish a 12-year wait for trophies after completing his return to the Spurs on a one-season loan agreement on Saturday.
Bale will have compatibility to make his debut at the time with the club until the end of October due to injury.
But after being frozen through coach Zinedine Zidane in the Spanish championship, the Welshman said he was motivated to remain one of the most productive players in the world.
“I think when I left, I’d like to come back someday, and now the opportunity has come up,” Bale told the Tottenham website. “I feel like it’s a smart fit, it’s a smart time for me. “I’m hungry, I’m motivated, I need to do it right and I can’t wait to get started. “
Bale, 31, won 4 Champions League titles and two La Liga titles with Madrid after moving for a world record of 85 million pounds (now $ 110 million, 93 million euros) in 2013.
“Our club wishes luck to a player who has been part of one of the most successful stages in our history,” Madrid said in a statement.
However, he had gotten out of his way since Zidane returned as coach in May 2019.
The former Southampton winger made just two appearances for Madrid after football returned from the break triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and even for the Champions League Real Madrid did not leave for Manchester City in June.
– Winning mentality –
“I think that by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going with the national team, I feel like I have this mindset of winning, how to win trophies.
“You don’t realize it until you’re there, in those situations, in the final, and you know how to take care of those situations, nerves, pressure, and everything comes with experience.
I hope to bring this to the locker room, to bring this confidence that we can win a trophy, and the time to do it is this season, not just one, to fight on each and every front imaginable. I need to bring that mindset. back to Tottenham “.
Tottenham would pay part of Bale’s huge 30 million euro salary for the season, with Madrid still at the mercy of the rest.
He will wear the number nine shirt and form an exciting trio with England captain Harry Kane and South Korean Son Heung-min.
Jose Mourinho’s men are in great need of a special touch after not being able to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in five years last season and begin their new Premier League crusade with a daunting 1-0 home defeat to Everton.
In the Spurs, Bale is still remembered as one of the biggest in the club.
He twice won the Premier League Player of the Year award in his first season as a team, in which he scored 56 goals in 203 appearances and caused Madrid to pay record value for his services.
“This is such a special club for me. That’s when I made a call for myself,” he added. What an amazing club, amazing fans, and it’s just amazing to be back. I hope now I can regain form, the team and win trophies. “
Tottenham has shown that Bale will have compatibility until the end of October due to a knee injury in Wales before this month.
Spanish left-back Sergio Reguilón also moved permanently from Madrid to Tottenham on Saturday for 30 million euros.
Reguilón travels to London after being loaned in season to Sevilla, winner of the Europa League.
Madrid, however, would keep buying the 23-year-old for the next two seasons.
“Tottenham has world-class players and a world-class coach, and I’m going to paint myself with them,” Reguilon said.
“I think I’m in the toughest league in the world. I’m excited about this adventure. “
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