Spurs will guarantee their progression to the last 32 of the competition with two games to spare if they beat Rubin in Russia on Thursday. The club's preparations for the match have been thrown into disarray after Redknapp was forced to stay in London to undergo a heart procedure to unblock two coronary arteries. Bond thinks nothing would delight the 64-year-old more than seeing his team pull off a win in Kazan to secure qualification and stretch the club's unbeaten record to eight matches - a run that seemed unlikely after they lost their first two games of the season. "It would certainly lift his spirits if we were able to bring him home some points from the game," Bond said. "It would give him a big lift, for sure. A couple of wins for us would be the best tonic. We have had a really good time of things since the first two games of the season." Redknapp was said to be in "excellent spirits" on Wednesday as he recovered from the procedure. A workaholic passionate about his life in football, Redknapp is determined to return to work and he even claimed on Wednesday he could be back at the club's training ground on Friday morning. The previous case of Sam Allardyce, who underwent a similar procedure and was out for two weeks while in charge of Blackburn, suggests such a diagnosis is optimistic, however. The surgeons who carried out the procedure will decide how long Redknapp should sit out his duties as Spurs boss, although he could leave hospital on Friday. As a close friend of Redknapp's, Bond will advise the former West Ham boss not to come back unless he is certain he will not put his long-term health in danger. Bond, who has worked with Redknapp at Southampton and Portsmouth, said: "As somebody who knows him well, I would tell him not to come back if he is not ready, the same as I would do if we were only going to have a warm down on a Monday morning. I would say, 'H, you don't need to come in today'. "I think that is important. He will listen on things like that so hopefully he will do the same now." Meanwhile, Dutch forward Rafael van der Vaart revealed Tuesday night's news came as a shock to the Spurs players. He told Sky Sports News: "We were totally surprised and a little bit scared. They (Tottenham) never told us. "I hope it's going to be better and we can keep winning for him." Bond has brought a relatively-strong squad on the 2,000-mile trip to Kazan. William Gallas, who is set to make his first appearance of the season after recovering from a calf injury, has made the journey, as has England striker Jermain Defoe. Steven Pienaar is also likely to play his first game of the campaign after coming through the groin injury which caused him to require surgery this summer.
