WALES v SLOVAKIA
Bale has won the Champions League four times with the Spanish giants since leaving Spurs in 2013 in an £85million deal.
But this season the Welsh superstar, 29, has endured a turbulent campaign as fans have got on his back and he has been criticised by team-mates.
He is playing under his third boss this term after Zinedine Zidane (right) returned, following Real’s 4-1 Champions League defeat to Ajax.
Spurs and Wales defender Davies says he would welcome his international team-mate back at the club this summer, but admits single-minded Bale will determine his own fate.
Davies, 25, assessed: “Gareth’s come under a bit of flak at Madrid recently, but for Wales he’s always been brilliant.
“I’m always going to say it’s unfair – he is one of the best players in the world, we see it every day in training.
“I’d definitely have him at Tottenham. But I don’t know how likely that is.”
Bale is Wales’s record goalscorer with 31 goals in 74 caps and was rested for the 1-0 friendly win over Trinidad & Tobago in Wrexham on Wednesday night.
But he will return to spearhead Wales’s attack against Slovakia in their opening Euro 2020 qualifier today.
Davies added: “He’s always the player that wants to be there and put his heart on the line for the team and I’m sure he’ll do it again.
“We’ll see how he does against Slovakia. I think he’ll put a top performance in.”
Last time Wales met Slovakia was in the opening game of Euro 2016 as Chris Coleman’s side won 2-1 in Bordeaux and went on to reach the semi-finals.
But it all might have been very different had left-back Davies not cleared a fourth-minute shot by Marek Hamsik off the line at 0-0 to deny Slovakia a certain goal.
Davies, who has 43 caps, added: “It was a long time ago now, but it was a special moment. Things could have been a lot different at the Euros for us had that have gone in, so it’s always nice to look back on. “I’ve seen it back a couple of times, not too recently, but they were some good memories. “Hopefully, I won’t have to do it again this time around. “At the time, it was pure instinct, but, at Spurs, we’re actually told we need to defend as high as we can and get to the ball to affect the strike, not be on the line. “But you don’t want to concede any goals and, on the day, it worked out well. “It’s just how you read the game and how you pick things up and I got it right that time.” Slovakia come into today’s game on a high after winning their opening qualifier 2-0 at home to Hungary on Thursday. Davies knows Wales’s Euros win will count for nothing and says they must prove themselves once again. He added: “That game in Bordeaux was probably one of the best games in recent memory. “It was a tough day against a good side, but that’s all in the past and now we need to kick on and start the new campaign well.
“We want to replicate that qualification and it has to start here.
“It’s not going to be an easy group, we are well aware of that. You have to win your home games and we have to start at 100mph.
“We want to start the game on the front foot.”
Davies is excited by Wales’s clutch of attacking starlets, such as David Brooks, Harry Wilson, Ben Woodburn and Dan James, who have emerged since the last Euros.
Davies said: “If you look at the options we’ve got now, we definitely have a lot more up there.
“In the past, we only had Gareth with that pace, but we’re lucky to be blessed with it now.
“It’s a good position to be in as a squad. The younger players will want to show what they can do when they get the chance of a regular place – that’s the competition you want.”