REAL MADRID could free up funds for a Kylian Mbappe swoop if they offload Gareth Bale to Tottenham.
The Welshman, 31, has finally found form in a Spurs shirt after his season-long loan deal.
Real Madrid are delighted that Gareth Bale is finding form at TottenhamCredit: Getty Images – Getty
And they could use Bale to help fund a £135m Kylian Mbappe moveCredit: Rex Features
SunSport earlier reported that Real are now ready to capitalise on that by shipping him off permanently.
And clearing Bale’s £650,000-a-week wages off their books would help them in their Mbappe quest.
Los Blancos are reportedly lining up a £135m swoop for PSG superstar Kylian Mbappe.
The Spanish giants hope it will persuade Tottenham to extend Bale’s stay for the final year of his contract next term.
And the good news for them is the North Londoners will look at taking him on loan again for next season if he continues to impress between now and the summer.
That will have Bernabeu bosses jumping for joy as they are desperate to get the Welshman, 31, off their wage bill.
So desperate, in fact, that they agreed to let him rejoin Spurs in a ridiculously cut-price deal that involved no loan fee and the Premier League club paying around half of his weekly wages.
Real hoped this deal would lead to Tottenham taking it up again next season, though the execs based at Lilywhite House were always eager to point out there was never any agreement in writing.
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Especially when Bale — after nearly two years left out in the cold by Zinedine Zidane — was blowing out of his backside and struggling to get into a Jose Mourinho side that was hardly pulling up trees.
That frustrated Bernabeu bean counters who, with bridges to China burned by the collapse of his megabucks move to Jiangsu Suning last February, faced the prospect of their highly-paid and underplayed employee spending another 12 months getting his golf handicap down on local courses on their time.
Worse still, from a football point of view, it seemed the career of one of the modern greats, and arguably the greatest British export of all time, was fizzling out with hardly a whimper.
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But, less than a month after even his own agent appeared to admit his client was coming to the end of his career, Bale hit back with a bang to cast a new light over his Tottenham future — and, indeed, his own.
After encouraging cameos in both legs of Spurs’ Europa League last-32 romp over Wolfsberger and as a sub in their 2-1 Prem defeat by West Ham, the four-time Champions League winner reminded us there is still plenty of life in the old Dragon yet against Burnley on Sunday.
After his brace and assist in the 4-0 win, boss Mourinho said: “Now he is better than ever. It’s not just the two goals, it’s about his physical performance. Now he’s not flat.”
Jose Mourinho hints Gareth Bale may have earned Prem start for Tottenham with goal and assist in Europa League
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
