Absent with Real since the start of the season, where he had participated in the first three matches, Gareth Bale is on his way back after a knee injury.
Back at Valdebebas, Real Madrid's training centre, the Welshman appeared in different physical form.
“
When did Bale lose so much muscle mass
?” asked one user, posting two photos six months apart.
Automatically arousing the reaction of other
aficionados
, all taken aback by the loss of muscle mass, especially in the legs, of the 32-year-old striker, who has not played since mid-November and the rally with the Welsh selection .
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“
He played too much golf
”, laughs a surfer in relation to the passion of the former Tottenham for the sport.
"
Wales, Golf, Madrid, in that order",
is the inscription on the flag he proudly displayed during the Welsh qualification for Euro 2020. An episode that marked the relationship between the Madridistas and the ex-player who was worth 100 million and who should leave free at the end of his contract next June.
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Bale has never found the flame with Real since returning from loan from Tottenham last year.
In the group for the reception of Elche last weekend (2-2), the Welshman, dispossessed since of his favorite number 11 (he now wears 18) had not come into play. Earlier in the month , his coach Carlo Ancelotti had confided that "
Bale is not injured, but he is not in his best form
".
“
We must do everything to make him feel the best,
continued the “Mister”.
We need to assess his situation.
»
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And these equivocal reactions from Madrid fans do not go in the direction of the former Spurs, who had not published a photo in a Madrid ensemble since last August on these social networks, where he sports the Wales shirt on his profile pictures.
But grounds for hope exist for Bale, long injured and a time infected with Covid-19, in view of the regular return of Eden Hazard to the Madrid attack.
The 31-year-old Belgian, another expensive signing from the Florentino Perez era, has also been a source of desperation for Madridistas for a long time.
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