Manchester City have moved quickly to deny suggestions
that they have made clandestine contact with Fernando Torres and
offered the Liverpool star £200,000-per week to join the
club.
Reports in both Spain and England have claimed that Abu Dhabi
United Group official Sulaiman Al-Fahim approached the prolific
striker’s representatives recently in an attempt to convince Torres
to join the ‘Middle Eastlands’ revolution.
City were also linked with a bid for Torres on transfer deadline
day when they broke the British transfer record to sign Brazil
international Robinho from Real Madrid.
Liverpool have constantly maintained that Torres is
indispensable though and now City have moved to head off a
potential conflict with their Premier League rivals by
insisting that no one representing the club has amde contact with
the player.
“At no time has any Manchester City official, or anybody
representing the club, contacted Fernando Torres, his
representatives or Liverpool Football Club,” a spokesperson told
the Liverpool Echo.
Torres finished last season as Liverpool's top scorer following
a high-profile move from Atletico Madrid and he has started the new
campaign in impressive fashion, scoring five times in The Premier
League.