The new "Most Expensive Footballer in the World." Gareth Bale began his Tottenham career as a defender, a somewhat disappointing left-back who held the distinction of never having started a game that his team won. But a few years into his career something odd happened: Bale started scoring goals, seemingly at will.
Now playing as a winger, he used his exceptional pace, natural agility and dead-eye aim to lift a solid but limited Tottenham team to their highest ever points total. It remains to be seen how he'll do in Madrid, where British players have typically been rather poorly treated.
When asked about the man who replaced him as the most expensive footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo is reported to have said of his new teammate, "I have my own opinion on Gareth Bale, but I'll keep it to myself."
