Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon admits it is “a pity” that Gareth Bale is having to return to Tottenham on loan, as he arrived in Spain with people “thinking that he would be better than Cristiano Ronaldo”.
The Blancos broke the world transfer to lure the Wales international forward away from north London in 2013.
The €100 million (£91m/$118m) deal took Bale to Spain, with that agreement worth more than the package for Ronaldo in the summer of 2009.
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