Real Madrid want to keep Gareth Bale, says Guillem Balague
Gareth Bale is contracted to Real Madrid until the summer of 2022
Real Madrid want to keep Gareth Bale at the
Santiago Bernabeu and have given the forward no timescale on his return
from injury, according to Sky Sports' Spanish football expert Guillem
Balague.
The Wales international joined Real in the summer of 2013, before signing a new long-term deal with the La Liga club last October that keeps him in the Spanish capital until 2022.
However, Bale has endured an injury-ravaged four years in Madrid and the player is currently sidelined for a month after tearing his calf muscle at the start of October.
Gareth Bale is currently sidelined with a calf problem
"Let's quote Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, who said, 'Poor Gareth, he is a little bit desperate because he wanted to recover and he is injured,' Balague told Sky Sports News.
"It seems like they have told him no date to return, forget Spurs, forget the date, get fit. Because what is important, as Cristiano Ronaldo showed last season, is how you finish the last three months of the season.
"Now Perez insists that he is here to stay and he wants him to stay, so do his representatives.
"So everybody wants this to continue and have a much better finish, or at least much better performances and more time than we have seen on the pitch so far.
"When he got injured, do not forget that he was Real Madrid's best player and everybody wants him to be like that again."
When Bale got injured, do not forget that he was Real Madrid's best player and everybody wants him to be like that again
In Bale's injury-enforced absence, the La Liga champions travel to face newly promoted Girona on Sunday afternoon looking to reduce the current five-point gap on leaders Barcelona at the top of the table.
Balague, however, expects Zinedine Zidane's side to prevail at the Estadi Montilivi in a game you can see live on Sky Sports Football.
"The interesting thing about that game is Girona is a hotbed of independence and there is a lot of alarm being created by the media," said Balague.
Gareth Bale will not be fit in time to face former club Spurs at Wembley
"But it is just an unnecessary alarm, the game will take place, there will be chants and banners, but that will be all.
"And Real Madrid should get the three points against a team that has only won one game and lost three at home and only scored two goals in the last four games. And Girona are finding it very difficult to come from the second division to the first."
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