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# Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp reveals he wants to sign David Beckham on
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loan in January transfer window
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## Harry Redknapp has confirmed that he will make an audacious attempt to
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lure David Beckham back to England to join Tottenham.
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![David Beckham - Alan Hansen it's difficult to see what Tottenham Hotspur
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might get out of the David Beckham loan deal][1]
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Past his best: Harry Redknapp wants to sign former England captain David
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Beckham on loan Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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[![John Ley][2]][3]
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By [John Ley][4] 10:30PM GMT 31 Dec 2010
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The Tottenham manager wants the former England captain to help boost Spurs'
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prospects in the Premier League and Champions League and will bid to sign him
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on loan from LA Galaxy.
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The January transfer window opened at midnight but, if Spurs can complete this
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coup, few other arrivals in the Premier League will match this sensational
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signing.
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It is not the first time Redknapp has courted Beckham, now 35. Last year
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Tottenham enquired about signing the former Manchester United winger but got
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no-where. Having failed on that occasion, he will attempt again to lure the
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Londoner back to his roots.
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Redknapp insisted that he was serious in signing Beckham, claiming his
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influence over the younger members of his impressive squad would only benefit.
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It is understood that chairman Daniel Levy, an astute mover in the transfer
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market, will give his backing to the move. In the past Levy has questioned the
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sense of luring older players to White Hart Lane but Beckham would be the
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exception.
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## Related Articles
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31 Dec 2010
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After leaving Real Madrid in 2007 for Los Angeles, he spent two spells on loan
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at AC Milan, in 2009 and 2010. On both occasions he was a success and Redknapp
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believes he can do a similar job at Spurs, while warning the player he would
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have to fight for his place.
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"I will be keeping a very close eye on it for sure," said Redknapp. "I don't
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know whether he's going to be available; it's whether Galaxy will let him go
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on loan. If they did we'd be interested and plenty of others would be as well.
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"He would only be on loan until March but he'd be a good influence to have,
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the type of lad you want at your club, and he'd give the whole place a lift."
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In his first spell at Milan he played 20 games, returning for a further 13.
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Curiously, if he was to be tempted to White Hart Lane he could feature against
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Milan in the Champions League.
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And Redknapp insisted that, despite his age, a player with 115 caps for his
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country is still capable of performing in a league he last featured in 2003.
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He suffered a snapped Achilles in March, while at Milan, but appears to be
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fully recovered.
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"He had no pace when he was 17 but he had a great brain and a great delivery
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and strike of the ball. He's a worker. It's not as if he's suddenly lost
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blistering pace. He makes the ball do it and plays around people."
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Galaxy have so far resisted Beckham's plea for another loan spell in the new
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year as he bids to add to his England caps tally. But if the Americans can be
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persuaded, Tottenham will not be the only suitors.
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He has indicated that any return to England would only be to Old Trafford.
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However, his past links with Spurs could tempt him to pull on a white shirt
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and Redknapp added: "David's got to come and fight for his place here,
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wouldn't he? And he's not going to start every game, he'd know that."
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When Beckham played in Milan he did not demand a huge salary and Redknapp
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insisted a similar deal would have to be struck.
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"He isn't going to come here and get big money, we aren't massive payers at
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this club. The money is not the thing. That tells you about him.
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"He might be a billionaire. No one knows. I've heard stories about how much he
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earns, it is just incredible, mind-blowing. And there he is, he has got three
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months where he can go back to Los Angeles, have a bit of sunshine, enjoy the
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life, but he wants to come and play football in the freezing cold."
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**Beckham's Tottenham links**
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It is almost written in the stars that David Beckham could soon be wearing the
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white shirt of Tottenham Hotspur. He was born in Leytonstone, and had trials
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with local club Leyton Orient and Norwich City while attending Tottenham's
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school of excellence between 1987 and 1991. He then signed schoolboy forms
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with Manchester United at the age of 14.
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One of the biggest influences of his career - and his life - was his maternal
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grandfather, Joseph West, a lifelong Spurs fan. Beckham was devastated when
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West died a little over a year ago at the age of 83. He acted as Beckham's
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mentor, taking him to games as a youngster and the former England captain once
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described his grandfather as his 'footballing inspiration' and it is
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understood that, out of respect, he wore his blue Spurs tie at his funeral.
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Beckham also owns property near to Spurs' Chigwell training ground. Dubbed
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'Beckhingham Palace' the home, situated in 17 acres and bought for £2.5
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million in 1999 by Beckham and wife Victoria, is in Sawbridgeworth, just 20
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miles down the M11 motorway, to Spurs' Essex headquarters, and 25 miles from
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