Last summer, Real Madrid made the world record signing of Gareth Bale. LIAM NEWMAN looks back on a highly productive first season in which the Welsh Wizard proved to be the Real Deal

When Gareth Bale inherited Cristiano Ronaldo’s title of most expensive player last summer, the world salivated at the prospect of seeing the latest member of football royalty begin his reign on the Bernabeu throne.Not since the Real Madrid arrival of David Beckham over a decade earlier had we seen such a frenzied media circus surrounding the transfer of a British player and, as the new prince of...