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50Weeps

Yes Gareth, why would you do that


blicky-stiffy

His legs are massive


That_Research_8948

When he was at Madrid they had to order a custom seated leg curl machine for him because the max was too light.


Beginning-Sundae8760

Keep going


SmartestUtdFan

Stop bro


Economy-County-9072

Thick thighs.


my_united_account

[You must have seen this before](https://www.mensjournal.com/.image/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTk2MTM3MzI1MjczODg0MTY1/gareth-bale-l-varane-c-and-theo-hernandez-of-real-madrid-during-training-for-tour-2017-on-the-campus-of-ucla-july-13-2017.jpg)


SpearofTrium05

He is one of the most physically gifted players ever.


Loud-Value

Goddamn


CaucasianDelegation

"Oh it's just a kick to the shin, get up you drama queen". You take a blow by someone built like that whose profession is to kick things really hard, never understood why people seem to forget footballers are in absurd physical condition.


Yetiassasin

Makes Varane of all player look meek


Anforas

r/oddlyterrifying


Hopeful_Outside_8711

that's the reason he was sending rockets left and right in both tottenham & madrid, also he was one of the fastest football players ever (said bartra probably)


EnvironmentalSpirit2

Why are you looking at his thighs? Should be focused on his cheekbones mate


babygrenade

It's all the golf


verykiasu

Just like puddings


abhi1260

Klopp: “why would you score that Bale? Are you stupid?”


Emotional_Split_3434

r/soccercirclejerk leaking from this comment


VaderOnReddit

can I google something, to know more about this?


Aschvolution

It's an overused meme on the said sub. Another example would be, let's say a game is 0-0 after 90 mins, you can just farm karma there and be like, "Why won't they just shoot it to the back of the net, are they stupid?"


spartakovic

woosh


Aschvolution

Well whooshed it might be, i'm just trying to explain it in case they genuinely want to know more. I'll take the L


TheBrownMamba8

Klopp: [“I can’t believe you’ve done this”](https://youtu.be/wKbU8B-QVZk?feature=shared)


PZinger6

That hair transplant is A+ tier


ltplummer96

Is it a transplant? I don’t remember his hairline being bad, just always had it tied up.


Turbokind

That top knot didn't fool anyone. Bald cunt.


TherewiIlbegoals

A top knot doesn't cover up a receding hairline tho


TheLimeyLemmon

He was supposedly suffering from spot baldness at the crown, and a top knot does cover that quite well.


ErrantThumbs

But this video doesn’t show the crown of his head, so I’d assume the comment about his hair transplant is referring to the forehead hairline.


TherewiIlbegoals

Right but the comment here is clearly talking about his hairline. A top knot doesn't help your hairline, it makes it worse by pulling it up.


TheLimeyLemmon

Regardless, the common speculation for years about Gareth Bale's balding has been near exclusively about losing it [at the back.](https://www.veraclinic.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Gareth-Bale-Bald-Spot-.webp) Hence the extensive use of the top knot. Bale adopting a new hairstyle, one which would be harder to hide a balding crown under, suggests he's had some treatment for it.


ryan_goal

Always curious why he didn’t do it sooner for someone who liked to change his hairstyle so often early in his career before he settled with the top knot.


WiddleBlueBert

you gotta shave your head and not sweat + the scars are obvious for a while, and it takes time to heal. Difficult things to find when you're a big football player, let alone a big name at Madrid.


Larz_has_Rock

But his hair is just swept back. It could still be hiding a bald spot.


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TherewiIlbegoals

I know.


Confident_Land_4121

It’s a line from game of thrones


asyf

It's a line from Game of Thrones.


BriscoCounty83

underrated line from the Hound :)


No_Data3541

Top knot doesn't cover your hairline. Always had a great hairline.


Turbokind

The top knot covered the second hairline on top of his head. Jokes aside, I was just referencing Game of Thrones.


supplementarytables

That line was brutal, I felt that burn even though it was a fictional character


PZinger6

He certainly had a thinning crown. His hairline wasn't as bad but you can see from this video there's certainly much thicker volume as well. https://assets.goal.com/images/v3/bltfe399902fd10a9d5/Gareth_Bale_LAFC_2022.jpg


SgtPepe

Finisteride fan help with that


TheLimeyLemmon

Probably not a transplant but from other pictures of him recently, he looks to have had treatment for his thinning crown.


eipotttatsch

He definitely had a transplant. His hairline wasn't bad before, but it's definitely less regressed now than it was before. That doesn't happen naturally in men.


Riskiverse

his hairline is literally the exact same, here it's covered by hair hanging over the edges


agaminon22

Remember to take your meds after transplanting kids.


Ok_Anybody_8307

I used to think transplanting was a one off thing. Turns out you need to take constant meds and hormones to keep it intact. Not worth it


agaminon22

Generally speaking you can take a moderate dose of a DHT regulator like finasteride. Your hair will still fall off otherwise cause it's the same hair you always had, just from someplace else.


gainful_fern

Or….. Just go bald


ndksv22

Depends so much on the shape of the head. People with a big forehead and/or a narrow head look horrible without hair. A friend of mine lost most of his hair very fast when he was in his late twenties and he went from being a 8/10 to maybe a 4/10. He 100% needed that hair to cover his head.


eipotttatsch

It's less about the size of the forehead or how wide the head is. It's more about the head having a nice "oval" shape.


[deleted]

Going bald is not an option for everyone, i'll take my chance with transplant if I ever lose my hair


Ok-fine-man

And kiss goodbye to your dating life - which is already a massive challenge


piccalilli_shinpads

The potential side effects are enough to scare me into just going bald.


WernerHerzogEatsShoe

Worth trying. Vast majority of people will be absolutely fine. If not, stop taking them.


xanot192

Finastride been in use forever but people always care about ED issues. Have a coworker that got a transplant, but all that money and you can see the hairline is receeding again 2 years later because he hopped off finastride.


WernerHerzogEatsShoe

Of course, everyone should make their own decisions. But it's always worth being aware of reality and not getting scared off because some people online have bad experiences.


Automatic_Acadia_766

Exactly what I was thinking. At least he can now live without that man bun.


nolefan5311

He’s always had good hair lol


Electronic-Heron9645

When he played for us the second time he had no hair on his crown, it was pulled back to cover it


NaiveElk

Ngl I prefer the man bun


CCFCLewis

Wales. Golf. Mugging off Klopp. Madrid


Extreme_Nectarine_29

Totally off-topic but Bale is the reason why I support Spurs as a Benfica fan. I remember that 2012 season where Bale alone carried Spurs to the 4th place. It was just unplayable.


CCFCLewis

That was an incredible season. Every match seemed to end in a Bale 30-yard screamer in the last minute. As a Welshman I always loved him, but the Euro 2016 qualifying and tournament cemented that love


Hopeful_Outside_8711

he was GOATED that season, [especially this on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0D7Ijz2_A)e


InfiniteSun51

Him, Suarez and RVP in 12/13 might be the best Player of the Year race I've seen, all three carried and won games on their own with moments of magic


IWatchTheAbyss

he just did whatever he wanted to that season and it worked. unreal player


Fgge

Unlucky man


Arcadela

The answers in this interview really are Wales. Golf. Madrid.


pagawaan_ng_lapis

and stir fries apparently


terra_filius

Christian Bale as G. Bale: *"Well, I Grew Up In* *~~Gotham~~* *Tottenham, And I Turned Out Alright.”*


Slackintit

My man just fucking loves golf


BIackBlade

My favorite player and my favorite goal.


BIackBlade

Crazy how neither his or Ronaldo's bicycle won Puskas. Won by a goal that Ribery used to scroe weekly


Constant_List6829

Not even Salahs best goal smh


troparow

Truly the stupidest Puskas ever


TenderNutsackScratch

Yea but its just a puskas chill


viserys8769

I think very few players can shoot the ball as good as Bale from distance and under pressure. His long range dips were all bangers.


IWatchTheAbyss

also underrated is his shooting from an angle. he has so many goals from really tight angles which he scored with perfect placement while also absolutely cunting it


throwfaraway898989

I'm a massive Arsenal fan but Bale is one of my favorite players ever. Just a weird story and incredible player


zarfidemha

His hair looks so good, that transplant is 🔥


KentuckyCandy

Same place Rob Holding went, clearly. None of this Turkish nonsense.


KillerTurtle13

As a Liverpool fan I'm glad that goal happened, if we lost purely to the ridiculous fuckups it would have been more painful.


Ok_Anybody_8307

>ridiculous fuckups To the deliberate arm twisting and the deliberate concussion you mean


squeda

Yeah I hate when this game gets mentioned without mentioning the Ramos cheap shot that fucked the keeper. Fuck Real Madrid.


TheRealPeterLim

ALWAYZ 😎


PEEWUN

Thank you for actually telling it like it is.


CuteAnimalFans

Great guy


Burtonta

It is so cool that playing for their countries means so much to even the top footballers.


DanOwen46

Love that some of his best football memories are with Wales


Onedweezy

Best CL final goal ever. The speed of the cross and the height of the bicycle kick made it sooo much more impressive than any other bicycle kick.


loopy8

I agree Gareth, that dragon kit is cool


Pure-Fan-3590

Sexy Celtic man. I can see why the Romans were afraid of the Gauls after seeing him.


throwfaraway898989

he looks like how I envision characters in Beowulf


Elite_Alice

?


ryanofthefunk

british footballers love entourage, feel like they always mention it in interviews or podcasts.


gravedigga1313

Real Madrid legend! Love this guy.


DevilWithin

Bro could've been a GOD if he was more into football and had his mindset locked in, he was physically more gifted than Ronaldo, was as fast as ⚡ and stronger than any defender yet he just didn't care enough to go all the way... One could argue that the injuries could've been avoided with better planning but yeah... One of my few favorite RM players ever and that's less than 10 players, so that's something.


bydy2

Gythy, dm me. It's been years.


DontLikeThisUsername

I've loved these Bale interviews during the finals, he looks so happy and more candid than he's ever been.


KentuckyCandy

Lovely man. Incredibly dull though.


p90love

Is his right arm significantly thicker than his left? Is that a golf thing or... ?


Inside-Finish4611

Nah mate he definitely jackhammers his giant welsh dragon dongus to build up that muscle. There’s probably some baby oil involved and some sort of incomprehensible number of voweled welsh curse words being yelled as he slams down from absolute length that is his tip to his giant flawless balls.


InfamousIroh

top stuff u/inside-finish4611


PM_UR_HYDROCARBONS

> Which football moment do you still think about? He should have said my overhead kick against liverpool


m0xa

He is looking increasingly similar to his brother, Christian.


KapiHeartlilly

As a big Christian Bale Fan, that would be something, Bale as Bale.


Disastrous_Chain7148

Dis he get a hair transplant?


Anforas

Now I understand his move to the US... He watched Entourage.


yungchigz

“Funny”


TH3OD0R3

This guy has the charisma of a Trout


chunky-kat

one of the most boring people i've ever seen


SuvorovNapoleon

You haven't seen Harry Kane or Jordan Henderson.