Redknapp not convinced with Bale’s signing

Harry Redknapp

has told Stadium Astro:

“If he isn’t going to do it at Tottenham, where is he going to do it? Does he have to take the easy option of going to America or China to play?

“He is obviously not showing a lot to Jose to make him want to play him. He is bringing people on who, I’m not being disrespectful, couldn’t lace his boots. He’s been on another planet to them as a player.”

Eric

Lamela

was preferred to

Gareth

Bale

in

Tottenham’s

3-1 defeat to

Liverpool

last night as the Wales international saw just nine minutes off the bench.

He added:

“I don’t know whether he was Jose’s signing. Jose might think he doesn’t fancy him now, because he never plays him.

“To bring him on with 10 minutes to go was a token effort, the game was gone. To bring on people like Lamela before him, I doubt very much whether he was a Jose signing – it was more Daniel [Levy] bringing him back.”

On

Bale’s

demise, which has seen him struggle at

Spurs

on the back of being frozen out in

Madrid

by

Zinedine

Zidane

, Redknapp added:

“He has got to show that he is worth a place. He has got to show that he can still do it, in training or whatever.

“I haven’t seen him explode, what he used to have. He was unplayable, he had a spell for me at Tottenham and then at Real Madrid where he was incredible. He hasn’t shown that.

“He looks like has hasn’t got that running power, that pace, at the moment. Everyone has a certain day when they hit a brick wall, maybe he has.”