Gareth Bale '100 per cent committed' to Real Madrid and wants to end career with club, says agent
The Wales international is available this summer but has expressed a desire to remain in Madrid
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Your support makes all the difference.Gareth Bale's agent has claimed the Wales star wants to stay at Real Madrid for the rest of his career, despite Zinedine Zidane's plans to move the winger on this summer
Bale joined Madrid in a €100m (£85m) move in 2013 and has won four Champions League titles in his time there, but the 29-year-old wideman still hasn't fully got to grips with the language and is seen as an outsider in the dressing room.
Zidane's return to the club this year was contingent on the Frenchman being afforded far greater control over the club's transfer policy, and the returning head coach is ready to dispense with Bale, a former favourite of president Florentino Perez.
Perez was told to sell Bale , and with the market proving weak for a 29-year-old winger who has struggled for fitness there is also the chance that Madrid will loan him out as they did with James Rodriguez.
Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett has, however, sought to remind the world that the former Tottenham man is happy in Spain
"Gareth is 100 per cent committed to Real Madrid," Barnett told BBC Radio Wales.
"Nothing has changed.
"He wants to play all his career at Real Madrid."
Bale, who was ranked among the Premier League's greatest ever players in The Independent's PL100 earlier this year, will almost certainly play his most minutes in a Madrid campaign since Carlo Ancelotti left the club in 2015.
Despite his improved fitness, the local media has soured on Bale and Vinicius Junior is instead seen as the club's great hope on the left.
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