Bale advises Bellingham: Talk to the media. And above all, learn Spanish

Jude Bellingham is having a dream start to his new engagement. The Real Madrid fans immediately fell in love with him, while the media is also praising him. Gareth Bale, however, advises him to learn Spanish, because he has figured it out.

British footballers don’t go abroad very often. In their eyes the best league in the world is at home, they often don’t want to learn another language, so why would they leave.

One of the handful of elite players who have made it elsewhere in Europe is Gareth Bale. Sportingly, Welsh’s involvement with Madrid can be considered a success, but he admits he has struggled socially.

It’s no secret that Bale never learned Spanish properly, and he suffered for it. At the same time, he almost refused to talk to the media, which returned his “ignorance” with hard-hitting articles.

Bellingham has no such problems at the moment, he is currently a superstar in La Liga and the media treat him as such. At the same time, he communicates with journalists after every game and maintains a good relationship with them. And that’s what Bale advises him to stick to.

“My biggest advice is to play the game Madrid want with them. Because if you don’t play it and you don’t do what the media want, you’re basically just a puppet, you’ll get a lot of shots. You saw a lot of ‘Galácticos’ behaving like that, doing what the media wanted, ” Bale told Sky Sports.

“That was probably my problem because I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted to play football and go home. That made things a little bit harder and caused the media to attack me a little bit more. So you have to talk to them after games and especially speak Spanish,” the four-time Champions League winner advises Bellingham.

Bale later admitted that he did speak Spanish, but only with teammates in private and had no problem with them. However, he refused to speak publicly to the media, who constantly blasted him for it.

Source: Sky Sports