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Gareth Bale appears to be fluttering his eyelashes at Tottenham Hotspur.

The Real Madrid superstar gave an interview to BT Sport in which he hailed the club’s appointment of Jose Mourinho and backed them to win silverware sooner rather than later.

He said: “Having [Jose] Mourinho there is an amazing statement from the club, I think he's a serial winner.

“Tottenham want to win trophies and I don't think there's a better partnership than Mourinho and Tottenham together to try and win some trophies.”

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AS has claimed that Spurs want to bring Bale back to the club he left for Real in 2013, and one has to wonder whether or not that would be the best idea.

Bale’s quotes, of course, could be innocuous, or they could point towards a desire to leave the Santiago Bernabeu.

Bale, after all, has been regularly booed by the Real fans and caused controversy after posing with a flag on international duty with Wales, emblazoned with the words “Wales, Golf, Madrid, in that order”.

Spurs, though, ought to steer well clear.

This is a player who is approaching the twilight of his career – he turns 31 in July – and who has little to no resale value whatsoever.

One could see the acquisition of Bale as a potential boon for chairman Daniel Levy and he’d be right to think that - shirt sales would soar and headlines would be written, but Bale is not the player he once was.

Last season, in 29 league appearances, Bale scored eight goals in La Liga; this season he has just two to his name thus far.

This is not to mention that Spurs already have a number of options up front, not least Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, who have 22 Premier League goals between them already this term.

Regardless of what Bale says, he simply isn’t worth the money he would cost.

It is of no surprise that his only serious suitor in the summer came from China; it is instructive of his current character that he wanted to go.

Forget the romance, Spurs shouldn’t go anywhere near their former hero.

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