Bale to Bellingham: "If you don't play the puppet of the Madrid media, you'll get a lot of criticism"

Former Real Madrid striker Gareth Bale gave some advice to the star player of the creamy team, Jude Bellingham.

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- The most important advice is to play Madrid's game. If you don't do that, if you don't do what the media want, if you don't talk to them, if you don't basically be their puppet, you're going to get a lot of criticism.

You'll see a lot of galacticos, they behave like galacticos, they turn being at Real Madrid into a kind of game, and that probably got in my way.

I didn't want to do that, I just wanted to play football and go home - and that probably hindered me, made them attack me harder. My advice is just to do everything in a realistic way off the pitch. You just kind of have to do your duty. Chat after the games, speak Spanish, do things like that," said Gareth Bale.

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