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Tottenham have re-signed Wales forward Gareth Bale from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a year-long loan.
Bale, 31, left Spurs for a then-world record £85m in 2013 and went on to score more than 100 goals and win four Champions Leagues with Real.
He originally joined Tottenham as a 17-year-old from Southampton in 2007 for an initial payment of £5m.
Bale has also won two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, three Uefa Super Cups, and three Club World Cups with Real.
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He remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the top-scoring British player in La Liga – with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league appearances, averaging a goal or assist every 104 minutes.
However, a run of injuries, indifferent form, and a deteriorating relationship with manager Zinedine Zidane had seen Bale become a marginal figure.
(BBC)