Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp says chairman Daniel Levy is ready to break a club transfer record to land Lille star Eden Hazard.

Spurs paid Blackburn £16.9million for David Bentley in 2008, while Lille want £32m for their 21-year-old Belgian playmaker.

Redknapp admitted: "There are others looking at Hazard but our chairman is willing to compete with them.

"If you want to compete with the likes of United and Chelsea at the top of the League, then that is what you have to do.

"And it doesn't mean that top players won't go to Chelsea or Arsenal if they don't make Champions League. They still go there because they are going to a big club in England - and they get the wages they want so they still go."