2. He's Only Just Started Adding Goals To His Game
The reason why Bale's not five and six times better than each of those aforementioned players is because he's only just started adding goals to his game. Last season, the 24-year-old scored 21 Premier League goals and was the third highest goal-scorer in the division, a feat which earned him a double swoop at the PFA Player of the Year Awards. But as you roll back the years, you see that Bale's goal-scoring ratio actually decreases season on season. In 2011/12, Bale scored nine Premier League goals, in 2010/11, seven, in 2009/10, three. His first two seasons at White Hart Lane - which saw him score two and then zero league goals - were blighted by injury, as we have already pointed out, so it would be unfair to take those into consideration. And besides, he did start his career as a left-back. But as the years went on, and as the statistics show, Bale has never been the prolific goal-scorer. Definitely not the goal-machine his soon-to-be-new-team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo is, who has struck 201 goals in 201 appearances for Los Blancos,
an average of a goal-a-game. Which we will get too now.