Zinedine Zidane refused to be blamed for driving Gareth Bale out of Real Madrid. The Welshman’s return to Tottenham on a season-long loan — with an option for a further season — is expected to be rubber-stamped in the next 36 hours.
The total cost of the package for Bale will be £11million, with Spurs agreeing to pay a loan fee and a chunk of his £650,000 weekly wages.
Bale’s future at the Bernabeu was plunged into doubt when Zidane returned in March 2019. The pair had a fractions relationship during the Frenchman’s first spell in charge and nothing changed when he took over for a second time.
Bale, who won four Champions League and two La Liga titles in Madrid, almost joined Chinese side Jiangsu Suning in the summer of 2019, but Real
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