Real Madrid News: "He needed to go to bed!" – Thibaut Courtois displeased with Gareth Bale for skipping his team's meal

Thibaut Courtois is apparently angry against Gareth Bale for not having made more efforts to integrate with his Real Madrid teammates.

The goalkeeper, signed from Chelsea this summer, explained that his Welsh teammate was one of two players missing a team dinner and claimed that Bale's talent was often "prevented from shining" .

The former Tottenham winger, Bale, was regularly badociated with a return to the Premier League and was not in the starting group since Madrid sided Sunday against Girona.

His team-mate Marcelo had previously said that Bale, who moved to Madrid in 2013, still does not speak Spanish, and Courtois now hinted that Bale, nicknamed the "golfer" by his teammates, is not not integrate with the Spanish giants.

"It's very difficult to describe Gareth in one word," he told the Belgian newspaper HLN.

"I would say that he's so talented, but that's such a shame that this talent is often prevented from shining."

Courtois added: "I live as someone who was born and raised in Madrid, I eat late, I go to bed late … that is their way of life.

"The other night, we had dinner with the whole team.

"But Bale and [Toni] Kroos did not show up. They felt that the dinner was too late at night.

"We had planned to go to the restaurant at 9:30 pm and we started eating around 10:15 pm At midnight we had coffee.

"We go to bed around 1 am We have to train every morning at 11 am I think the time is right.

"But Bale had told us – I'm not coming to join you guys, I'm going to bed at eleven o'clock."

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After Sunday's result, Madrid are now nine points clear of Barcelona, ​​leader of La Liga, as the club enters a crucial stage of the season.

They are then in action against Levante on Sunday, while Madrid will face the return leg of a Copa del Rey semi-final against Barcelona and the Clasico league three days later.