article_snippet: Gareth Bale's has joined up with the Wales national team ahead of the Wales national team upcoming match against Israel .
article_snippet: Gareth Bale's has struggled to replicate the form Gareth Bale's had shown during Gareth Bale's first season at Real Madrid .
article_snippet: Gareth Bale's would not expect to have earned the same level of respect as the ‘Galloping Major’, who won three European Cups and scored 156 league goals in 180 games, but Gareth Bale's has four trophies in Gareth Bale's first year-and-a-half at the club, so the animosity Gareth Bale's has encountered is impossible to justify and hard to understand.
article_snippet: Gareth Bale's is already a Real Madrid legend,’ gushed Madrid sports daily Marca when Gareth Bale's won the European Cup in Lisbon last May. last May. rival publication in the Spanish capital
article_snippet: An estimated 400 million people watched Gareth Bale's struggle on television as Real moved four points behind Barca .
article_snippet: All this supposedly supports the theory that Bale is in decline.
article_snippet: But behind the numbers the story is a little more complicated than Bale critics care to admit.
article_snippet: Bale came back to pre-season training in peak physical condition last summer and was comfortably the club’s best player on the tour of the US, scoring in friendlies against Manchester United and Inter Milan.
article_snippet: But a thigh injury suffered in October saw Bale miss three weeks of the season and in Bale absence Bale fielded a midfield quartet of James Rodriguez, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Isco.
article_snippet: And that is where many of Bale current problems began.
article_snippet: Bale has been criticised by Real supporters despite winning four trophies since joining the club in 2013 .
article_snippet: Bale Bale will be hoping to lead Chris Coleman's Wales to Euro 2016 .
article_snippet: Wales, who are currently just one point behind Group B leaders Israel, need Bale to be firing on all cylinders .
article_snippet: The idea that Bale should make way for Isco now went hand in hand with the theory that Bale was selfish.
article_snippet: The under-current of competition between Bale and Bale is another factor.
article_snippet: It is no secret that president Florentino Perez sees Bale as Bale’s eventual successor both on the pitch as a match winner and off it as a big-money contract winner.
article_snippet: Bale is not enamoured with the idea of being replaced by anyone and, despite the fact Bale lives in the same luxury
article_snippet: And Bale will need to be a sure that Madrid is the right city to justify putting down deeper roots.
highlights_snippet: Gareth Bale's has been criticised despite winning four trophies since joining Real .
  
highlights_snippet: Gareth Bale's is under too much pressure at Real, says Gerry Armstrong .