Bale will not sign to Man Utd! This is where his heart belongs

Gareth Bale’s agent claims the Welshman “wants to play all his career with Real Madrid” even after the return of manager Zinedine Zidane, whose first spell in charge of the club often saw Bale dropped from the first-choice XI.

The Madrid winger has endured a frustrating season as injuries have yet again curtailed his involvement and team-mates have begun calling him out publicly for not being a more integral member of the squad.

All of this has led to speculation that Bale will finally leave the club this summer, but agent Jonathan Barnett says his client has no intention of doing so – though he admitted Zidane and the club could decide the player’s future lies elsewhere.

“He wants to play all his career for Real Madrid and if it does not work out, we will talk again,” Barnett said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast.

“He will talk with Mr [Zinedine] Zidane, take it from there and then see at the end of the season.”

Barnett alluded to Bale’s rumoured supposed strained relationship with Zidane, but also claimed that if the returning manager uses the player in the right way, the 29-year-old could be “right up there with Cristiano Ronaldo“.

“Gareth wanted to play one way and Zidane wanted to play another. That was the cause of it and over a period of time it got worse,” Barnett explained.

“If you let Gareth play the way he wants to play, having a run of games in a row not in and out, he can be right up there with Cristiano Ronaldo. He still has a great talent.

“Gareth is very strong. He is a very strong-willed person and does not care what the press say. The jeering [from fans] is not something that bothers him, he does not understand what he has to do.

“Look at his record, what he has won and how he has played. In years to come, these people who are booing him, their children will be looking at the goals he scored and will be saying, ‘what a wonderful player’.”

The agent also hit back at the accusations that have come from Bale’s Madrid team-mates, as well as the media coverage of the winger in general, reserving some criticism for the British press in specific for not backing a British player succeeding abroad.

“Bale is a very quiet man,” Barnett said. “He has been accused of some terrible crimes like not wanting to stay out until 1am. That is terrible and every paper said that was disgusting. Can you imagine the reaction of the papers here if they saw an English player out at 1am?”

“He loves to be fit, he has a regime and he sticks to it. He is the perfect pro. He is very friendly with everyone, they know what he does and playing golf on a day off is not a crime. If anybody from the club wants to play he is available. He is fine, loves life in Madrid and has always been happy. It is very unfair of the press.

“I assure you Gareth does not read the papers about himself. The press are wrong to behave like that, it incites the fans.

“I also have a big gripe with the British press in that he is one of, if not the best, export that has ever left Britain to play abroad, one of the best players Britain has ever produced and, unbelievably, even the newspapers in England don’t stop knocking him.

“Ronaldo would never get knocked in Portugal, Lionel Messi wouldn’t in Argentina, Neymar would not get knocked in Brazil.”

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