Gareth Bale is confident he can handle any pressure at Tottenham after living with a target on his back at Real Madrid.
The Wales star is back in north London and itching to get started at Tottenham, with a minor knee injury delaying his second debut for the club.
Bale spent six years at Tottenham before leaving for Madrid in 2013, winning four Champions League titles and LaLiga twice with Los Blancos before his time in Spain turned sour.
As his performances dipped, and as Zinedine Zidane stopped counting on him as a first-team regular, Bale began to lose the faith of the Santiago Bernabeu crowd.
Posing with a flag carrying the now-immortal line Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order while on international duty did Bale no favours.
Zidane s sidelining of Bale drew few complaints in Spain, but the Cardiff-born forward is back in the Premier League and looking to prove his career can lift off again.
He told Sky Sports: Obviously going into a different culture, a different country, I ve had to grow up as a person, never mind a footballer.
You just learn how to deal with the situations that you re in. Obviously I ve been in immense pressure situations. I ve had people on the pitch whistling in the stadium to me.
I ve just learned how to deal with those type of things, to not take it too seriously, [not] take it too much to heart, and just get on with it.
