Tottenham Hotspur put £50 million price tag on Luka Modric, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Bentley-c10435 keen to move out
Tottenham Hotspur have put a whopping £50 million price tag on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786, Barcelona and Real Madrid following another impressive
season at White Hart Lane.
However, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has maintained that the club must hold on to players such as Modric and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gareth-Bale-c14422 if they are to continue fighting it out for a place in the Champions League.
Therefore, in an attempt to keep rival clubs away from trying to prise Modric from them at the end of the season, Spurs will insist on not being interested in offers below £50 million.
Modric is only 12 months into a £70,000-a-week six-year contract at Tottenham, so they hold all the aces. Their progress to the last-16 of the Champions League will no doubt, keep the player happy.
However, if Tottenham fail to make in the top four, it is highly likely that a host of players will be looking to leave, including Modric. The nippy midfielder will only be able to do so if a club is willing to more than treble the £16.5 million Spurs paid
Dinamo Zagreb for his services in 2008.
Meanwhile, David Bentley doesn't expect to be a Spurs player for much longer after revealing the reasons behind his loan to Birmingham.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 international is due to see the season out at St Andrews after failing out of favour in North London under Spurs boss Harry Redknapp.
Bentley was desperate to secure a temporary move during the January transfer window as the 26-year-old fears his career is in danger of stagnating.
The player was once tipped to take over from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Beckham-c10432, but since his £15 million switch from Blackburn in the summer of 2008, he was not able to hold a regular first-team football during his time at the and a series of disagreements with Redknapp haven't
helped his cause.
Bentley said, “We did row at times. That's part of football. It was probably down to me and my frustration because I wanted to be playing. I left Blackburn for Tottenham because I wanted to force on my career. I thought it was a match made in heaven but
it never worked out.”
He said he had thought the move would be good for his career as he thought he would be part of a team on the up, but that didn’t happen and accepting that was very difficult for him. He was not sure of when he would leave the club, but said it was a certainty
that he would. “I don't know if I've played my last game for Spurs but a lot of bridges have been burnt. Whether they can be repaired, I don't know. But I don't want to sit at Tottenham until I'm 30 doing nothing. I could do that in north London with everything
there for me, but I want to play every week. That's why I came here."
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