What next for Gareth Bale?

Manchester City won’t risk signing an injury-prone playerhaving struggled without Aymeric Laporte and Leroy Sane for the majority of thisseason.

And with their impending Champions League ban, they may notbe able to attract Bale without a place in Europe’s headline competition, whichwould likely rule out Arsenal and former club Spurs as well.

China

The Chinese Super League became a viable option for talentedplayers in recent years following an influx of money and Bale was linked with amove to Asia in January.

But the government have introduced a wage cap of£49,000-a-week for foreign players, which has seen many European-based playerscome back.

The eye-watering wages were the main draw for upping sticksto a league with less quality so he’s unlikely to consider uprooting his lifeand moving to China for such a significant pay cut.

Stay at Real Madrid

Let’s face, Bale is living the life in Madrid.

He’s on good money in a hot country, with golf coursesgalore. And he’s still playing reasonably regularly for Real.

With two years left on his contract, he’s probably not in ahuge rush to leave and while he’s fit he’ll always be the first name on theteam sheet for Wales.

A move would only materialise if he was forced out or if hereceived an offer that was impossible to turn down. He’s previously been linkedto other top European teams, including Bayern Munich and PSG, but they’d haveto move on one of their higher earners before committing to signing Bale.

And with the state of football currently up in the air, it’sbecoming increasingly likely that Bale will still be a Real Madrid player nextseason, whenever that may be.

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