Manchester City are launching
a £65 million bid for Barcelona
pair Yaya Toure and Zlatan
Ibrahimovic.
The Daily Star says Roberto
Mancini wants to make sure the team never miss out on
Champions League football again.
He has targeted Swedish striker Ibrahimovic, who Barca are
prepared to sell for £50m.
They only snapped him up last summer for £60m from
Inter Milan, with Samuel Eto’o
going the other way.
Mancini has worked with Ibrahimovic at the San Siro, and would
like him to lead the line at Eastlands.
While City have tentatively looked at 28-year-old Ibrahimovic,
they are further down the road with Toure.
Central defender Kolo Toure has talked to Mancini about bringing
his brother to the club. The fact City are not in the Champions
League could be a problem, but the £150,000-a-week wages on offer
to both players could overcome that issue.
