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GARETH BALE COULD EXTEND SPURS STAY BEYOND LOAN SPELL

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Tottenham Hotspur’s new loan signing Gareth Bale could extend his stay at the north London club beyond the season, the forward’s agent said on Tuesday (Sept 22) as the Welshman looks to end his spell with Real Madrid.

Bale returned to Spurs after seven years when Real Madrid sanctioned a loan last week following the 31-year-old’s fallout with manager Zinedine Zidane, who did not select him for matches towards the end of last season’s league title run.

Signed from Southampton as a promising left back in 2007, Bale scored 56 goals in 203 games for Tottenham before leaving them in 2013 for a then world record €100 million move to Madrid.

“I’m sure that if things really worked out well, we’d have no problem (extending his stay),” Bale’s agent Jonathan Barnett told the BBC on Tuesday.

“This is the club he wants to play at. I don’t see any problems if he wants another year.”

Bale, who has scored more than 100 goals for Real and won the Champions League four times, has two years left on his contract at the Spanish club.

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“Hopefully, the subject (of returning to Madrid) won’t come up,” Barnett added. “He will be so successful at Tottenham, he’ll want to stay and it will be a simple deal to do the rest.”

Spurs confirmed last week that Bale, who injured his knee while playing for Wales in the Nations League this month, is likely to be match-fit only after the international break next month.

Reuters

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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