{"id":1099542,"date":"2019-07-31T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1099542"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:29:22","slug":"toshack-criticises-bale-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/toshack-criticises-bale-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Learn the language&#8221; &#8211; Former Real Madrid and Wales boss Toshack criticises Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Real Madrid and Wales manager John Toshack has criticised Gareth Bale for failing to learn Spanish amid the forward&#8217;s ongoing transfer saga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bale saw a move to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning fall through earlier this week and looks set to stay with Real Madrid for another season.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where does Bale stand with Real Madrid? Five key things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Zinedine Zidane confirmed the club was working on Bale&#8217;s exit earlier this month.<\/li>\n<li>The Welshman looked set to seal a free transfer to Jiangsu Suning, where he would earn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/jul\/28\/gareth-bale-move-china-blocked-by-real-madrid-board\" rel=\"noopener\">reported \u00a31m a week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>But Madrid pulled the plug on the deal at the last minute after suddenly requesting a fee for Bale.<\/li>\n<li>The La Liga giants left Bale out of their Audi Cup squad and he missed Madrid&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Tottenham.<\/li>\n<li>Zidane claims Bale was not fit to join up with the rest of the squad in Munich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7330203-it-s-easy-to-get-backwards-but-liverpool-s-dependence-on-their-front-three-isn-t-a-weakness<\/p>\n<p>Toshack managed Madrid in two separate spells, winning La Liga with the club in 1989\/90 before a trophyless stint in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old also handed Bale his senior international debut as Wales coach in 2006 but believes the former Spurs star is partly to blame for his situation at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know how difficult Real Madrid can be,&#8221; said Toshack. &#8220;Very, very difficult club. I was there twice and nothing comes out from Gareth. Nothing. Only his agent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This, that, goodness knows. Sad for football or the football I know and love. Saddens and sickens me, to be honest with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he would say to Bale personally, Toshack said: &#8220;Go and play. Just play the game. Say what you actually think. Don&#8217;t have somebody else telling people what should happen. You tell them what you want, what you like, where you want to play. A little bit more personality yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need agents or people to talk for you. You speak yourself. I haven&#8217;t heard Gareth say anything. I&#8217;m reading all this stuff about the criticism that Bale is taking, you know, and it&#8217;s justified.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How will Unai Emery setup Arsenal? | Squawka Tactics\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgL7-JR-P8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come out Gareth, do an interview. Speak yourself, you&#8217;ve been here six or seven years now and you don&#8217;t speak the language. That&#8217;s an insult to the people you&#8217;re working for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything with Gareth now here is negative because, at the end of the day, Gareth has won things here. He&#8217;s been important at Real Madrid over the last five or six years. It&#8217;s just a great pity that he hasn&#8217;t engaged himself a little bit more with the country that he&#8217;s living in, with the supporters that are there every week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gareth, come on, take a little bit of time out and learn the language. Nothing, nothing. 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