Will Mourinho be able to motivate Gareth Bale?
The Welsh footballer lived very comfortably in Madrid playing golf and going to the sports city for a couple of hours to train. Madrid is a very attractive city to live in and being a millionaire you can ask for more...Good climate, good food, good schools, good security and good golf courses in Madrid (or very close to Madrid for a millionaire).
31 year old player with great conditions to play football. And an equally magnificent record with Real Madrid. Any player would give his all to have those conditions to play football and above all to be in the best team in the world for many. The departure of Madrid has been very decaffeinated. We will not forget that start in the final of the 2014 King's Cup against F.C. Barcelona where Bartra saw the Welshman pass like a plane to score the winning goal. Nor will we forget the goal scored against Atletico de Madrid that same year in the Champions League final which put the score at 2-1.
Bale won his third Champions League at home in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. He entered the game with nine minutes to go in the 4-1 victory over Juventus in Turin. This year was not at all decisive. But it was decisive in the 2018 final. On 26 May 2018, he was the hero in the 3-1 victory over Liverpool in Kiev. Madrid won the thirteenth Champions League, the third in a row and the fourth in their personal history. Minute 61 of the match, he enters through Isco and only two minutes later he scores a goal that will go down in the history of Champions League finals, an incredible Chilean 2-1. At 83 minutes of the match, a powerful shot from outside the area escapes Karius and supports the victory of Madrid.
Jose Mourinho has a very complicated job of motivation ahead of him. Let's see if he can convince a 31-year-old player that, to be an elite football player, no matter how many conditions you have, you can't spend five hours on your feet playing golf almost every day. The body needs rest after every training session and after every game. The legs get loaded if they don't get the necessary rest and the back suffers from playing golf.
It is said that Zidane did not know how to motivate him and that being a member of the club he should have paid more attention and more love to him. The club already paid him a pile of millions, more affection than that... I believe that Zidane did try by all means to integrate the player back into the dynamics of the team, but when one does not want to and is attracted by something else than what one should professionally, nothing can be done.
Motivation has when he goes with the selection of his country, but lately already alone with the motivation it has not reached him to yield to the high level that of him is expected from him. It's been years and the body is not the same. A strange guy, not very sociable and not very integrated. In six years he hardly speaks any Spanish. But what I said: an athlete with extraordinary conditions for football.
Mou you have it difficult ... with Reguilón, quite the opposite
