Bale left Tottenham for Real Madrid last month for a reported world-record transfer fee of &pound;85 million (100 million euros), but Redknapp says he used to have doubts about the Welsh forward&rsquo;s strength of character. <img alt="Harry Redknapp and Gareth Bale" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/oct/Harry-Gareth.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 369px;" /> Harry Redknapp and Gareth Bale. Pics/Getty Images &ldquo;He drove me mad in training,&rdquo; wrote Redknapp in his autobiography.u00a0&ldquo;Technically, he was outstanding, but he always seemed to be playing with his hair. It was never right. He&rsquo;d be flicking the fringe or wiping it out of his eyes and I would be going quietly mad, just watching. &lsquo;Gareth, leave your barnet alone! Gareth! Stop touching you hair!&rsquo;&rdquo; &lsquo;Barnet&rsquo; is cockney rhyming slang for &lsquo;hair&rsquo;, derived from a rhyme with &lsquo;Barnet Fair&rsquo;.u00a0Redknapp, who now manages second-tier Queens Park Rangers, was also worried about Bale&rsquo;s propensity for injury. &ldquo;He was always getting a little knock in training, too. He&rsquo;d go down then limp off and I always thought the physios made too much fuss of him,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was the same pattern every morning. Gareth would tumble and stay there, and they&rsquo;d all go running over. In the end, I told them just to leave him alone.&rdquo;u00a0

Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that he once feared Gareth Bale was too preoccupied with his hairstyle to make it as a leading footballer.

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