Gareth Bale is a Real Madrid player

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Gareth Bale is a Real Madrid player after the Spanish giants agreed a world-record £85m deal with Tottenham. The 24-year-old Wales winger will undergo a medical before being showcased at the Bernabeu at midday UK time on Monday. A six-year deal worth £8.5m a year was agreed between Bale and Real long ago.

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Real Madrid confirm signing of Gareth Bale in reported €100m deal

• Bale signs six-year deal with Spanish club
• 'This is my dream come true', says former Spurs winger

• Guardian staff and agencies
• theguardian.com, Sunday 1 September 2013 19.44 BST

Bale expressed his thanks to Spurs and said, 'Tottenham will always be in my heart.' Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian.

Real Madrid have confirmed the signing of Gareth Bale with the fee thought to be a world record figure of €100m (£86m), which would surpass the £80m fee that Real Madrid paid for Cristiano Ronaldo back in 2009.
Bale has signed a six-year deal, thought to be worth in excess of £300,000 per week, and will be unveiled as a Madrid player tomorrow at the Santiago Bernabéu. Bale released a statement on Tottenham's website on Sunday night, and spoke of how the move to Madrid was a "dream come true."
"I am not sure there is ever a good time to leave a club where I felt settled and was playing the best football of my career to date. I know many players talk of their desire to join the club of their boyhood dreams, but I can honestly say, this is my dream come true.
"I am well aware that I would not be at the level I am today were it not for firstly Southampton and then Spurs standing by me during some of the tougher times and affording me the environment and support they have.
"Tottenham will always be in my heart and I'm sure that this season will be a successful one for them. I am now looking forward to the next exciting chapter in my life, playing football for Real Madrid."
The deal brings to an end the summer's longest running transfer saga, with the sale following Tottenham's own transfer activity, in which they have spent more than £110m on a number of high-profile arrivals.
Speaking after his side lost 1-0 to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, Spurs manager André Villas-Boas said of Bale: "He is going to join Real Madrid so we wish him all the best. He is an absolutely wonderful player.
"He has left us with some great memories from last season which every Tottenham fan cherishes, but he has moved on and we will move on as well."
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy also released a statement: "Gareth was a player we had absolutely no intention of selling as we look to build for the future. He is a player whose career we have fostered and developed and he was only a year into his new four year contract.
"Such has been the attention from Real Madrid and so great is Gareth's desire to join them, that we have taken the view that the player will not be sufficiently committed to our campaign in the current season.
"We have, therefore, with great reluctance, agreed to this sale and do so in the knowledge that we have an exceptionally strong squad to which we have added no fewer than seven top internationals. More importantly, we have an immense team spirit and a dressing room that is hungry for success.
"We wish Gareth all the best in the future and he shall always be welcome at the Lane."