Redknapp has missed the north London club's past two games after he underwent minor heart surgery last week.

The 64-year-old has been advised by doctors to rest for up to five weeks, however, he could be back at work when Spurs host Aston Villa on November 21.

The international break has allowed Redknapp extra time in his recovery and, while Bond stressed his boss would heed the medics' advice, he admitted Redknapp was targeting a return against Villa.

"Whatever the doctors say, he needs to take his lead from them," Bond told Sky Sports News HD. "These people know best and he might have to take a little bit longer.

"He's hoping that he will be back for our next game. I know initially that was his thoughts, that he would be back for the Villa game.

"If it needs to be longer, he will have to listen to those guys."

In Redknapp's absence Bond has taken on the managerial responsibilities alongside Joe Jordan and Clive Allen.

They masterminded the 3-1 success over Fulham on Sunday and Bond admitted the trio were content to stay in charge until Redknapp was fit to return.

"That's what Joe, myself and Clive and the other members of the coaching staff will do," said Bond.

"We will try and keep it going. Hopefully Harry will be back for our next game, but if he's not we will take our lead from him and try to do things in the same way as we always have done before.

"The players know what is expected from them and all we will try to do is to keep things going as sweetly as we can do until Harry returns."

Spurs' win at the weekend was their seventh in their past eight games to leave them outside the Barclays Premier League's top four on goal difference only.

With a game in hand Redknapp's troops are well placed to jump above fourth-placed London rivals Chelsea and defender Ledley King believes they can be the capital club to break Manchester's dominance of the title race.

Manchester City and United are positioned first and second in the table, but King insists Tottenham are ready to restore pride in the capital.

"I hope we can become the biggest challenger to the Manchester teams," he said.

"We're still learning, we're still taking one game at a time, but at the moment we feel we can win every game we go into."

King believes Spurs' success in surviving a second-half onslaught at Craven Cottage proves they now possess the stomach for a fight, a quality that has been missing in previous years.

"We didn't play well against Fulham in the second half and we got lucky at times, our goalkeeper Brad Friedel had to pull off a few good saves for us," he said.

"But when that's happening you have to dig deep, and we did that.

"What they say about the old Spurs sides is that when it gets tough they weren't able to stick it out.

"This is a different team. We're managing to grind out results.

"That's seven wins in eight games. You have to be a good side to do that, and you have to do all forms of the game.

"You have to defend and score goals, and we're doing that.

"We're confident at the moment, we feel we've got a really good team. Everyone is maturing.

"We've got players that are reaching ages now when they understand the game a bit more, and what's expected of them."