Arsenal alert: Spurs line up Bale replacement?

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp is lining up a replacement for Gareth Bale despite being confident of keeping his exciting squad together even if the team slip up against Fulham on Sunday and finish the Premier League season out of the Champions League places.

Asked if Tottenham's best players would want to leave if that happened, Redknapp told reporters on Friday: "Champions League football gets over-hyped a bit.  

"At the end of the day, if you pay players good wages and get them a good contract they are happy." 

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He also dismissed a story in the Spanish sports newspaper Marca that Spurs had agreed a 40-million-euro fee with Barcelona for midfielder Gareth Bale. 

"I wouldn't think there's the slightest bit of truth in that. Not a chance I wouldn't have thought," Redknapp said at the club's training ground. 

"You have got to keep our best players because if you don't, where are you going? You can't be selling your best players."

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However, Spurs have stepped up a bid to sign Marseille striker Loic Remy, according to the Mirror.

Redknapp tried to land the £16m-rated France international during the January window.

But the Spurs boss has gone back for the 25-year-old, and Remy is due to visit White Hart Lane on Tuesday with Marseille sporting ­director Jose Anigo, the report added.

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Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea are also keen, but Redknapp has leapt to the head of the queue.

Remy has scored 12 goals in 28 Ligue 1 appearances.

He is under contract until 2015, but Marseille are set to finish in mid-table after a disappointing season, and they plan to sell the 6ft frontman they signed from Nice for £12m, to raise funds for team rebuilding.

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Tottenham, fourth in the table, could finish third and return to the Champions League after a year's absence if they beat Fulham and Arsenal, a point above them, fail to win against West Bromwich Albion.  

Man City in £40m Bale raid on Spurs

When Manchester City come courting a player, the mone on hand is usually obscene. Enough to turn even the most loyal of players in to suitable suitors.

Which is why Tottenham Hotspur need to be worried.

Forty million pounds is what City will offer for Gareth Bale.

The British press were rife with reports yesterday that Roberto Mancini and Manchester City are ready to make a raid on Tottenham for Bale.

According to some speculation, the transfer could potentially see Emmanuel Adebayor and another star swap the Etihad for Tottenham Super-rich City will try to make the move happen by offering the Welsh wonder three times his wages, which would put him on over £100,000-a-week.

Bale may be tempted to make the move after dropping heavy hints that he will review his future this summer.

He said in a recent interview, “If we don’t (qualify for the Champions League), I have to discuss what’s best for myself.”

Bale has been heavily linked with a move abroad, with Barcelona in the frame.

City may also offer another player in the deal if Spurs boss Harry Redknapp and his chairman Daniel Levy do want to play ball, with Nigel De Jong and Adam Johnson both potentially on the list of candidates.

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