• Crónica.Bale launches Madrid at the premiere
  • Zidane. "Bale is going to stay"

Gareth Bale was not enthusiastic about the praise after his good game in Vigo. They both slip, his people say, the criticism and the exaggerated compliments that Spanish football spends. He was struck by his involvement in the turf, his sprints or the bankruptcies he left in making Madrid's first goal in the League. He has been happy with his physical condition since the first summer training, and with hot legs, he feels superior to most. The Balaidos thing for him is simply a first step towards his goal: to show Zinedine Zidane that he still has a lot to contribute to the team.

The Frenchman does not need to convince him of his qualities. The coach played a lot and good football, and knows the category on the lawn of the Briton, provided he runs on. What disappointed him was to conclude that the ball was not his priority, his greatest passion. Bale faced the profession with professional surgeon, something squeaky for someone who always lived in a raptured way, from the first to the last moment he was on the lawn. Let them tell Materazzi .

If that change of attitude arrives, if you consolidate what you saw in the league premiere, the end will have room in the plans of a technician in need of goal and quality in the attack, especially after the injuries of Asensio and Hazard . The costumes look the same as their introverted companion. No one has to remind them of their potential. The problem is the bumpy irregularities (and injuries) that Zidane trusts do not arrive this season.

Bale has been the name of summer at Real Madrid when his departure became a soap opera, with peak voltage spikes. The most delicate moment of the stormy white preseason came in a routine press conference where Zidane was asked again about him. The French then released a phrase as blunt as unusual in his speech, almost always temperate and formal, with hardly any controversial edges. This time he replied in a traditional way: "If you can go tomorrow, the better."

The explanation continued with a "it will be better for everyone" that gave the exact meaning to his words, but the hard headline went viral with speed, reaching the ears of the player and his surroundings at the worst possible time, just as they refined their departure to The Chinese League The phrase caused stupor in the club, since it devalued a little more a player who, at the time, broke records in the transfer market. Zidane justified himself immediately by pointing to his rusty Spanish, down in those months that passed away from the white bench. He has been in Madrid for almost 20 years, but his personal life is completely Francophone, like his collaborators in Valdebebas . In the following appearance in the United States he tried to clarify the blunt statement.

To China yes, to China no

At the same time, the Welsh march got stuck. China was the only destination that could respect his extraordinary salary (more than 15 million euros per year), but it meant for Madrid to have to open the door almost free, a difficult formula to digest despite being an already amortized player , according to the club. The operation suddenly fell, with Jonathan Barnett , his representative, blaming the white direction of the slowdown and remembering the little desire to move Bale and his family, so happy in Spain. The truth is that the Briton never showed much enthusiasm for the Asian championship, beyond the security of keeping his salary. He never wanted to leave Real Madrid because he looked hollow in the team, considering himself better than the competition. "I'm not leaving here , " he told his agents at the end of last year, with Zidane again in charge. He intended to win the coach's pulse, even risking being in the stands.

Without personal conflicts between the two or an intimate talk about their situation ("Zizou is more about acting than talking," they remember in the club), the unpredictable summer curves have ended up placing Bale in the first eleven start of the season. Now he has to grab the square with quality and passion that his coach demands.

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