That comment is at odds with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy, who has previously insisted the 25-year-old is not for sale “at any price”, and Bond attempted to clarify his remarks.

“For the purpose of clarification and in case my comments inadvertently misled anyone, the club’s position on Luka Modric is quite clear – we have no intention of selling him,” he said.

Earlier, Bond had told talkSPORT: “You don’t want to lose your best players and he certainly is one of our best players and we desperately don’t want to lose him.

“But I think everybody has got a price.

“If somebody came along – although the chairman’s adamant he doesn’t want to sell him and that’s great for us – and the money turns your head and he did go then we’d have to get on with it.

“But, at the moment, the chairman’s insistent he won’t let him go and we definitely don’t want to lose him anyway.”

Chelsea reportedly offered £22m and £27m for Modric in their previous bids.

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp branded the Blues’ opening gambit as “ridiculous” and also gave short shrift to the second.

Modric still has five years remaining on the long-term contract he signed last summer.

However, the Croatia star wants to leave, reportedly handing in a transfer request after accusing Levy of reneging on a gentleman’s agreement to sell him this summer if a club like Chelsea made a bid.

Tottenham’s recent history is littered with examples of the club being forced to let their best players leave, although they have been adamant Modric does not fall into the same bracket.

Yet Bond admitted part of him was counting the days until the transfer window closed.

“It’s a difficult situation, obviously. It’s well documented,” he said.

“But once we get to the end of the month then no one can go anywhere and we’ve all got to get on with it.

“On the one hand, the sooner it comes the better.

“But we’d like to do a little bit of work in the transfer market ourselves.”

Bond said Redknapp “would have to deal elsewhere” if Modric was sold but the manager himself has admitted Tottenham would struggle to compete for top players because they could not match the salaries on offer at the likes of Manchester City.

Bond said: “You’re always looking to improve if you can. We would (buy) if the right people were made available to us.”

Reports yesterday suggested the club were set to step up their interest in Athletic Bilbao’s Fernando Llorente after missing out on Mirko Vucinic who joined Juventus.

Llorente would bolster Spurs’ attacking options with a lack of goals costing them last term, when they finished fifth in the Barclays Premier League.

Redknapp admitted they might even struggle to match that this season, agreeing with Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson’s view that City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool would be the champions’ main rivals.

Bond concurred with his boss, saying: “It seems to me that if you do nothing, you go backwards.

“Everybody seems to have improved. They’ve all been out in the market.

“Liverpool, again, have made some shrewd acquisitions and I think it will be tougher still to get in the top four – tougher than it was last year.

“We’re going to be trying to hang on in if we can but it’s going to be a really competitive league this year.”