Spurs V West Ham: Bale Tells Mourinho Best Position To Play Him

Spurs V West Ham Bale Position To Play

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho believes Gareth Bale can regain the heights hit at Real Madrid and says he will be used predominantly on the right.

The Wales international at the Bernabeu mainly played on the right – excelling in a front three with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema – and now Bale has told Mourinho where his favourite position is.

“One of the first questions in my first conversation with Gareth – because the team is most important thing but the player is important too – was, ‘What’s your favourite position?’,” Mourinho said.

“I wanted to start from there and he answered me the question. Does that mean he will always be used in that position? No.

“Because the most important thing is the team, and he will play where the team needs him to play, but he was very clear by saying his favourite position is on the right.

“It’s not as a number 10, it’s not as a striker, it’s not any more on the left side like he did in the first years of his career at Southampton and Tottenham. His favourite position now is on the right side.

“So, that was a very good starting point of his development here.

“When he reaches his continuity and when he reaches his normal intensity and dynamic, I think he can be the player people saw being decisive when he went to Real Madrid, in a very similar position.

“Real Madrid was basically, Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo, with Bale playing fundamentally playing from the right and that’s the position he prefers.”

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Bale could make his second Spurs debut when West Ham visit on Sunday afternoon, having regained fitness following a knee injury.

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