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Tottenham have re-signed Welsh forward Gareth Bale from Real Madrid, the Spanish champions, on loan for one season.
“It’s good to be back. It’s a very special club for me. It’s where I made a name for myself,” Bale said.
“Hopefully now I can get fit for the game, get going and really help the team and hopefully win trophies.”
The Spurs said Bale signed for them with a knee injury he suffered playing for Wales earlier this month and that “they anticipate he will be in good shape after the international break in October.”
That would mean the forward would miss his next five games, with the club’s first outing following the international break at home to West Ham on 17 October.
‘I’m hungry and motivated’
Bale originally joined Tottenham when he was 17 from Southampton in 2007 for a £ 5 million down payment.
“When I left, I always thought that I would love to come back,” he added.
“I feel like a good fit. It’s a good time for me. I’m hungry and motivated. I want to do well for the team and can’t wait to start.”
At Real, Bale has also won two La Liga titles, a Copa del Rey, three UEFA Super Cups and three Club World Cups.
“I think that by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going far with the national team I feel like I have that kind of winning mentality, how to win trophies,” he said.
“You don’t realize until you’re there and in those situations, in the finals, how to deal with the situation, the nerves, the pressure, and I think it all goes with the experience.
“Hopefully I can bring that into the locker room, get everyone to believe a little bit more that we can win a trophy, and the goal is to do it this season, fight on all fronts possible. I want to bring that mentality here.” , back to Tottenham. “
Bale remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the British player with the most goals in La Liga, with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league games, averaging one goal or assist every 104 minutes.
However, a series of injuries, indifferent form and a deteriorating relationship with coach Zinedine Zidane had made Bale a marginal figure.
From the world’s most expensive transfer to a marginal player
Real eclipsed the £ 80 million they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to bring Bale to the Bernabéu, and the forward signed an initial six-year contract for £ 300,000 a week.
He extended his stay with a new six-year contract in 2016, reportedly worth £ 600,000 a week, and £ 150 million over its duration – in salaries and bonuses.
The Welshman had great success in his first seasons at Real, scoring in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals, as well as the 2014 Copa del Rey final.
BBC Sport Readers voted Bale best British export From the Premier League era earlier this year, his 42% stake comfortably dwarfs the 29% of David Beckham, former England, Manchester United and Real Madrid.
| Champions League | 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 |
| The league | 2016-17, 2019-20 |
| Copa del Rey | 2014 |
| UEFA Super Cup | 2014, 2016, 2017 |
| Club World Cup | 2014, 2017, 2018 |
But frustrated by the lack of playing time, Bale was about to move to China last year. Real blocked it.
After celebrating Wales qualification for Euro 2020 with a banner reading “Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order” in November, he received backlash in Spain and was booed by Real fans in his first game back for the club.
His relationship with Zidane deteriorated to the point where Bale asked not to travel with the squad for the Champions League knockout knockout tie against Manchester City in August because he knew he had no chance of being involved.
He started just one match when the 2019-20 La Liga season resumed after the coronavirus shutdown and played just 100 minutes as Real Madrid won their first league title since 2017, and was conspicuously on the sidelines of the team’s celebrations.
Bale joins the other coach José Mourinho signings from this transfer window, joining goalkeeper Joe Hart, defender Matt Doherty, midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Sergio Reguilón, left back, at the club.
Tottenham, a 2019 Champions League finalist, were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first game of the 2020-21 campaign on Sunday.
They finished sixth in the English top flight last season to qualify for the Europa League, seven points behind Chelsea in last place in the Champions League.
Mourinho, who started his first full season with Spurs after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino in December, tried to sign Bale when the Real Madrid manager arrived, but the player arrived the season after the Portuguese left.
The opposition will be afraid of Bale’s surprise factor: analysis
Former Spurs and England midfielder Danny Murphy:
Gareth Bale has that “wow” factor, something that only a few very special players in the world have.
When they play, they have a different aura and a presence on the field that affects everyone, even before kicking a ball.
Therefore, Bale will not only have a positive effect on his new Tottenham teammates and give them a huge confidence boost, but he will change the way opposition players feel against Spurs.
They will be worried when they see his name on the score sheet and then when they face him on the field, I can tell you that now they will go down five yards because they will be afraid of him, whoever they are.
More about the deal
Simon Stone, BBC Sport
The signs are that Tottenham will pay 40% of Bale’s salary, which exceeds £ 600,000 per week.
This figure may involve bonuses, so the actual pay may be less than £ 260,000 per week, but it will still put Bale above even Harry Kane, who signed a £ 200,000-per-week deal in 2018.
However, less than six months after President Daniel Levy put the staff on leave, and less than four months after Tottenham got a £ 175 million loan from the Bank of England, which it expressly says will not be used to buy players and is most likely to help pay off the loans for his £ 1 billion stadium, still raises questions about the deal.
A canny operator with a great entrepreneurial brain, Levy can presumably justify the move for two reasons.
First, the impact Bale could have on Mourinho’s squad, which will lead to success on the field and therefore more money. Second, Bale is a global star and will have a great commercial impact.
Bale’s arrival raises questions about the short-term future of two midfielders: Dele Alli, replaced at halftime during Sunday’s home loss to Everton, and Tanguy Ndombele, a club record signing of £ 63 million last summer. .
Bale Key Statistics
- In 146 Premier League games for Tottenham, Bale scored 42 goals. In his last season at Tottenham, 2012-2013, Bale was involved in 37 goals In all competitions for the club (26 goals, 11 assists), only Robin van Persie (39) and Juan Mata (49) participated in more for a Premier League club that season.
- Nine of those 21 goals came out of the box; the most of any player in a single season in the history of the competition.
- Bale is one of four Premier League players to win the PFA Player of the Year twice, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. He was also the second Premier League player (along with Ronaldo) to win this award alongside the Young Player of the Year award in the same season.
- Bale is one of seven players to score at least twice in a solo Champions League final, and the only British player to do so.
- Since joining Madrid in the summer of 2013, only Ronaldo (318) and Karim Benzema (235) have participated in more competitive goals for Real Madrid than Gareth Bale (162).
- For the past three seasons, Gareth Bale has seen his dribbling attempts drop to three or less every 90 minutes, compared to a maximum of 6.2 when he was at Tottenham and 5.8 in his first season at Real Madrid.
What does Bale’s departure look like in Madrid?
Andy West, Spanish soccer writer:
The view in Madrid is … finally, it’s gone.
Whether fair or not (and the man himself seems beyond concern), that will be the immediate reaction of most Real Madrid fans to the news of Gareth Bale’s departure.
In their minds, Bale’s undeniably significant role in an impressive number of silverware, including some truly sensational moments of match-winning brilliance, has been overshadowed by his surprising lack of contribution over the past two years, during which his attitude toward the club changed. between disinterested apathy and hostile mockery.
In time, the acrimony of his last two years will be forgotten and a more generous perception will emerge, and it is now widely recognized that Bale was an undoubted success during his first five years in Spain.
But there’s no denying that he became an expensive burden in the end, and few fans will regret seeing him go.
| Player | Clubs | Share |
| Neymar | Barcelona to Paris St-Germain | 200 million pounds |
| Kylian Mbappé | Monaco to Paris St-Germain | 165 million pounds |
| Philippe Coutinho | Liverpool to Barcelona | £ 142 million |
| Ousmane Dembélé | Borussia Dortmund to Barcelona | £ 135 million |
| Joao Felix | Benfica to Atlético de Madrid | £ 113 million |
| Antoine Griezmann | Atlético de Madrid to Barcelona | £ 107 million |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid to Juventus | £ 99.2 million |
| Eden Hazard | Chelsea to Real Madrid | £ 89m |
| Paul pogba | Juventus to Manchester United | £ 89m |
| Gareth Bale | Tottenham to Real Madrid | £ 85 million |
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