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Bale: I can't see myself at Manchester United next season

Gareth Bale says he is more than happy at Real Madrid and has no intention of leaving to join Manchester United or any other club.

Former Tottenham winger Bale joined Madrid for £86 million in summer 2014, and scored key goals in the finals as Madrid won both the Champions League and Copa del Rey in his first season.

However some fans and pundits at the Santiago Bernabeu have yet to fully accept the Welshman as a true 'galactico' and persistent speculation has linked him with a big money return to the Premier League.

In his first big radio interview in Spain, the 25-year-old told Cadena Ser that he was content to remain at the Bernabeu for years to come.

Bale has scored 14 goals for Real Madrid this season © Getty Images

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Asked if he saw himself at Manchester United next season, Bale said: "No, not at all. I am happy here. I have still got a few years left on my contract. I am happy, we are winning trophies I and want to keep doing that here at Madrid. It is different football. I am enjoying a lot this experience, this culture, and trying to take it all in and enjoy it."

Much of the more recent transfer speculation has come among a growing feeling among Madrid fans and pundits that Bale is not a team player, especially after twice in different games this January he was through on goal and shot wide rather than pass to Cristiano Ronaldo. Such incidents happen all the time, Bale said, and there had been no issue with Ronaldo afterwards.

"All I remember is going through on goal, and being very focused on trying to score," he said. "If I had scored nobody would have said anything. I did not see [Ronaldo] and it seemed like a difficult pass. I do not actually know how much importance was given to it. We did not speak about it at all afterwards. I think it happens all the time, in all teams, and what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch. Nobody takes it personally afterwards."

Generally speaking the opinions of media pundits was not something he paid much attention to, Bale said.

"I do not understand it and I tend not to look at it," he said. "I just concentrate on my football. When I am at home I talk about other things, golf, my life in general, not about what other people say. People have their own opinions, that is what they do for a living. On the pitch I give assists, and score goals, playing my own way."

Asked whether he has had trouble with his back all through his career, Bale said he had some issues as a teenager but the more recent stories of a chronic injury problem were "lies".

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