Redknapp places $130m price tag on winger Bale
April 5, 2011 -- Updated 1621 GMT (0021 HKT)
Gareth Bale (right) has scored seven goals in 25 English Premier League matches this season.
Redknapp, who took charge of the North London club in 2008, was talking ahead of Spurs' Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.(CNN) -- Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp told a reporters on Monday it would take a world-record equaling bid of $130m to prize winger Gareth Bale away from White Hart Lane.
Wales international Bale, who is fit to play in Tuesday's match after overcoming a hamstring injury, has scored four goals in Europe's premier club competition this season, including a second-half hat-trick against reigning champions Inter Milan in October.
If the 21-year-old was to move for the price quoted by Redknapp, it would match the figure Real paid to lure Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo away from Manchester United in 2009.
"Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo but they got an offer of £80m [$130m]," Redknapp, 64, told reporters.
It would be an amazing figure if you ever sold him. But how do you replace a player like that?
--Harry Redknapp
--Harry Redknapp
"So in the end, it was good business. It would be an amazing figure if you ever sold him [Bale]. But how do you replace a player like that?
"It's very difficult. We wouldn't be wanting to sell a player like Gareth Bale at this time, when we're trying to build the club."
Bale, who moved to Spurs from Southampton in 2007, signed a new four-and-a-half year contract last month, but said recently a move away from England would not faze him.
"I'm not afraid to leave the country," Bale is reported to have said in British newspaper The Guardian.
"If a great opportunity arises, you need to seriously consider it. I left home at 15. If I leave the [English] Premier League, I'll learn another language, I'll know other people, another country. I will grow as a person," Bale added.
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