Gareth Bale happy to stay at Real till the end

Madrid

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Gareth Bale wants to stay at Real Madrid for the rest of his career and never came close to leaving the Spanish giants in the transfer window, his agent said yesterday.

“Not at all - it was all stupid paper talk,” Jonathan Barnett, one of the football world’s most influential agents, said of reports linking the Welsh international to Manchester United.

“He is very happy at Real Madrid. Hopefully he’ll stay for the rest of his career at Real Madrid.

“He’s loving it there and things are going well for him,” Barnett added at the Soccerex convention in Manchester.

Barnett said that 26-year-old Bale, who cost an estimated £83.5 million (110m euros),  would remain the world’s most valuable player for the “foreseeable future”.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi would also command huge prices. but Barnett said their transfer was also unlikely.

“In Spain they have clauses which come out and state how you much you have to pay so at the moment he (Bale) probably is the most valuable and it will be a while before someone breaks it.”

The head of the Stellar group with a stable of several hundred footballers said the failed transfer of Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea from United to Real was a “complete mess up.”