Gareth Bale is edging closer to a sensational return to Tottenham Hotspur.- $4 Tottenham is in talks with
Real Madrid over a potential loan move. - The Spanish club is reportedly willing to keep paying half of the Welshman's $780,000-a-week wages in order to make it happen.
- Tottenham coach Jose Mourinho refused to comment on the proposed move, but Bale's agent told AFP, $4 that a deal is "close but not done."
- Bale left Spurs for Real in 2013 and has since scored over a century of goals and won four Champions League titles.
Gareth Bale is edging closer to a sensational return to Tottenham Hotspur, $4 which reports the North London club is locked in talks with Real Madrid over a potential move for the Welshman.
Bale left Tottenham to join Real in 2013 for a then world record fee of $110 million and has since scored over a century of goals and won four Champions League titles.
The 31-year-old has $4, and has expressed his desire to leave the club on numerous occasions.
Bale is understood to be keen on a return to North London, and The Athletic reports Madrid is willing to pay around half of Bale's $780,000-a-week wages in order to get a loan deal over the line.
Though Bale has yet to publicly comment on the proposed move, his agent, Jonathan Barnett, $4 "Gareth still loves Spurs. It's where he wants to be."
Barnett also told AFP, $4 that a deal is "close but not done."
Mourinho opens up on admiration for Bale
Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho refused to comment on Bale's potential return to the club, however did reveal he previously tried to sign him during his tenure in the Spanish capital.
Bale joined Madrid just months after Mourinho's three year spell as manager of Madrid came to an end in 2013.
"Gareth Bale is a Real Madrid player and I don't comment on players from other clubs," Mourinho told reporters ahead of his Tottenham's Europa League second-round qualifying clash with Lokomotiv Plovdiv on Wednesday.
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"That is not my job to have contacts with agents. I don't want to comment on that."
He added: "I tried to sign him for Real Madrid, which was not possibly to do during my time there but the president followed my instinct and my knowledge and the season I left he brought Gareth to the club. There's no secret to that.
"Even [Gareth] knows that but I'm not going to speak to him any more because he's a Real Madrid player."
Bale has also previously spoken of his admiration for Mourinho.
When asked about Tottenham's appointment of the Portuguese coach last November, $4 "Having Mourinho there is an amazing statement from the club, I think he's a serial winner.
"Tottenham want to win trophies and I don't think there's a better partnership than Mourinho and Tottenham together to try and win some trophies."
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