Gareth Bale should not be ‘killed’ for leaving Real Madrid games early as he just wants to beat traffic, says agent
GARETH BALE’S agent has told the Spanish media and supporters to “stop killing” the player after he was slammed for leaving Real Madrid’s 4-1 Copa del Rey humiliation early.
The Wales superstar was spotted in his car heading off ten minutes before the end of Los Blancos‘ shock loss to Real Sociadad at the Bernabeu, after being left out of the squad completely.
His agent, Jonathan Barnett, said: “He wants to avoid traffic, he wants to get home. He’s not in the squad and he wants to go home.
“You can’t kill him for that. They lost and he was very upset.”
It is the latest in a series of incidents involving the player, who was denied a multi-million move to China last summer.
Unpopular with the fans and the Madrid media, but Bale loves life in the Spanish capital, says Barnett in an interview with Spanish sports newspaper AS.
He said: “They boo him. He loves Real Madrid, no matter what you say. There’s so much rubbish written about Gareth Bale. ‘He doesn’t speak Spanish’ – he DOES speak Spanish!
“People who say he doesn’t speak Spanish don’t know him. They make complete idiots of themselves, they are complete idiots because they talk about somebody that they do not know.
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“They shouldn’t say things that they don’t know. They get up on television and, it’s disgusting, say ‘Gareth Bale doesn’t speak Spanish.’ How do they know he doesn’t speak Spanish?”
And Englishman Barnett also attacked speculation that Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane does not want Bale at the club.
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He said: “How do you know he [Zidane] doesn’t want him? I promise you he wants him. Real Madrid want Gareth Bale. There is not a problem between Zidane and Gareth.”
The closest Bale came to a transfer was last summer when Chinese club Jiangsu Suning offered him £1million-a-week – but that bit the dust when Madrid asked too much money for the Welshman they signed for £86m from Spurs in 2013.
Barnett said: “He got an offer that was impossible to refuse. But Real Madrid wouldn’t sell him. They couldn’t pay what Madrid wanted.”