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Internazionale will confirm Gareth Bale's growing reputation as the most sought-after player in world football with a £40m bid in the summer, the most that has ever been offered for a player of his age and experience.

The move, if successful, would shatter the transfer record for a British player and propel Bale to an elite within the game of which perhaps only Wayne Rooney, of home-produced contemporaries, could count himself.

That £40m sum could rise higher as the Italian champions' move is expected to spark an immediate bidding war with Real Madrid, where José Mourinho has also made the Tottenham Hotspur winger his principal summer target.

Such a move would place Bale, still only 21, among a gilded elite of expensive footballers. Only four players have ever moved for more – Ronaldo (Manchester United to Real for £80m), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter to Barcelona for £56.5m), Kaká (Milan to Real for £56m), Zinedine Zidane (Juventus to Real for £45m) – and all had made significantly more impact on the European stage than Bale, who 12 months ago was just cementing his place in the Tottenham first XI.