Gareth Bale linked with move to China

Bale is expected to leave Madrid after boss Zinedine Zidane said it would be best for everyone if he left after six years at the club.

Two Chinese clubs Jiangsu Suning and Beijing Guo’an had offered him lucrative contracts but Suning won out.

Billionaire Zhang Jindong is the president of Suning Group, which owns the club and his company also holds the majority of shares of Italian football giants Inter Milan.

If Bale completes his move to Jiangsu Suning, he will join Brazilian former Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Alex Teixeira and Italian striker Eder as the team’s other foreign stars.