Real Madrid Bid £85MILLION For Gareth Bale

Real Madrid have made a world record bid of over £85million to Tottenham Hotspur football club for Gareth Bale, Sky Sports reports.

Madrid's offer has been on the table for over a week, and Bale is becoming more and more frustrated with the situation. The bid does not include any Real Madrid players moving to Spurs as part of a package.

Sky Sports understands Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is currently in Miami and that the club's stance - that the player is not for sale - has not changed.

Bale has so far kept his feelings to himself, making no public declaration about what he wants to happen next. Tottenham and Bale are back from the Asia Trophy and will resume training on Wednesday.

Speaking on the Sky Sports Football Season Preview show, former Spurs player and Sky pundit Jamie Redknapp said he thinks it is inevitable Bale will now move.

"How can he turn it down?" Redknapp said. "I also believe Spurs are a selling club - go back to Michael Carrick, Luka Modric, Dimitar Berbatov - okay, they also sell at the right price. "I think there'll be a conversation between Daniel Levy and (owner) Joe Louis and I can only see one outcome, that he'll be a Real Madrid player."

Earlier on Tuesday, Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas backed his club's chase for Bale.

"We are talking about one of the top three or four best players in Europe," said Casillas, "and it's normal that his name is being discussed because he has all the qualities a footballer needs."

Madrid-based newspaper Marca, which is effectively a mouthpiece for Real, claimed on its front page on Tuesday that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is demanding a fee of £126million, which would shatter the world-record fee for a footballer - the £80m Real spent on Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

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