Gareth Bale’s Tuesday comments about not seeing himself at Tottenham Hotspur beyond the end of this season, and very much planning to go back to Real Madrid for his final year of contract, caused a fuss both in the UK and Spain.
There’s endless takes on why he said what he did, with claims on Wednesday that he can’t stay at Spurs because they won’t match his wages and he’s not willing give up a penny of his final year with Real Madrid.
Sport have a brief, but to the point, look at the situation. The newspaper states ‘alarms went off’ at Madrid on Tuesday as the comments from Bale filtered through to them.
The current Tottenham man isn’t wanted by Los Blancos fans and ‘much less’ by Zinedine Zidane. With the Frenchman in charge, there’s simply no place for Bale at the club.
Even Florentino Perez, once one of Bale’s biggest fans, won’t welcome him back with a ‘pyrotechnic display’.
All of this is likely to continue until the end of the season.