{"id":885,"date":"2020-09-21T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:10:00","slug":"bale-i-came-back-to-tottenham-because-of-mourinho-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Bale: I came back to Tottenham because of Mourinho as well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gareth Bale has revealed that coach Jose Mourinho played a key role in his decision to return to Tottenham from Real Madrid last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old winger returned to his home on a one-year loan from Real Madrid, seven years after leaving to join the Spanish giants for a world record amount &#8211; 94 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bale has said he looks forward to forming an attacking partnership with Harry Kane and Hueng-Min Son after talking to Mourinho about his role on the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He has talked to me about some positions in which he wants me to play and of course I am happy with that,&#8221; Bale told BT Sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was a big reason why I came back here, he is a winner. He is the perfect fit for Tottenham. We have to win trophies and Mourinho knows better than anyone else how to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Bale has revealed that coach Jose Mourinho played a key role in his decision to return to Tottenham from Real Madrid last week. The 31-year-old winger returned to his home on a one-year loan from Real Madrid, seven years after leaving to join the Spanish giants for a world record amount &#8211; 94 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-premier-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}