Cardiff City had been holding out hope that Gareth Bale might return to his hometown, but he opted for Los Angeles instead. twoht on the Welshman making the pragmatic choice rather than the romantic one...
Gareth Bale choosing to see out next season with Cardiff City would have had an exceptional emotional pull, not least in the year that the national football team reached its first World Cup finals since 1958 and in the stadium which became so central to Wales’s qualification. But there are coherent reasons why Bale might be better off in California than in Glamorganshire next season, especially if those World Cup finals are his primary focus for the second half of 2022.
On top of that, it is commonly accepted these days that players need ‘game time’ in order to guarantee selection and/or peak performance in a major tournament. Coaches are less likely to pick a player who hasn’t been playing fairly regular league football because they’re less likely to be match fit. And even though this particular tournament is being played in the winter, the temperature in Doha is still likely to be in the mid-eighties.
And it’s not that the Championship is a ‘farmer’s league’, but football in the UK has a reputation and this particular division has a reputation within that framework. In 2020,found that the Championship had nearly 50% more red cards, 14% more yellow cards, and 12% more ‘duels’ during the 2019/20 season, on average, than the Premier League.
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