Bale drops hint he's ready to leave Spurs for Champions League (and forget winning the trophy, it's the MUSIC that attracts him)



Gareth Bale has reiterated his desire to play in the Champions League.



Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid are both desperate to land Bale this summer in the wake of Tottenham's failure to qualify for the Champions League.

And in an interview with Esquire, Bale has spelled out what Europe's elite competition means to him.

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New look: Tottenham and Wales star Gareth Bale is featured in the latest issue of Esquire

He said: 'When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.



'No one's used to defending, everyone's used to attacking and trying to win games, so it's just all against all.'



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He added: 'The music is a massive thing - Zadok the Priest (Handel's anthem that announces the arrival of the teams). When we first got into the Champions League, it's one of the things that most of the lads were looking forward to, hearing it in the stadium. It's little things like that which make it special.'

Winger Bale scored 26 goals in 44 appearances in all competitions for Spurs last season, but insisted he does not feel any pressure to perform. He said: 'I don't feel any pressure. If I'm the one scoring all the goals and winning us the games, then I just carry on as normal. I don't feel any different.'



Read all about it: The full Gareth Bale interview appears in Esquire’s August issue, on sale Wednesday, July 3



Referring to his father, Frank, as his harshest critic, Bale added: 'He always told me off if I did something wrong. Even now he still does it. But he makes me get better and I kind of want to keep proving him wrong to keep him quiet. He's always got something to say.'







