{"id":580317,"date":"2026-05-12T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:13:12","slug":"gareth-bale-more-complete-than-cristiano-ronaldo-manchester-uniteds-casemiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580317\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Bale more &#8216;complete&#8217; than Cristiano Ronaldo &#8211; Manchester United&#8217;s Casemiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United&#8217;s former Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro says Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest footballer he has played with &#8211; but that Gareth Bale is the &#8220;most complete&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Casemiro, 34, won five Champions League titles during nine stellar years at Real and has spent the last four years at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 84-cap Brazil international says Wales legend Bale is the finest all-round player he has played alongside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cristiano scores a minimum 15 goals [every season] but Bale is attack, defend, heads, scores,&#8221; Casemiro told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMDT_REgb2o&amp;t=1041s\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cristiano is the best, he&#8217;s in another world. Take Cristiano out of the conversation. But for me Bale is the best, more complete player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything he does [is] very good. Very quick. Too strong. For me Bale is unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s former Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro says Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest footballer he has played with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}