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.
Manchester City remain hopeful of convincing Valencia winger David Silva about a move to Eastlands.
The Guardian says Silva is known to favour a move to Real Madrid but City are hoping their financial muscle can persuade him to move to Manchester as part of a projected new-look midfield.
City’s manager, Roberto Mancini, stressed during an end-of-season meeting with Garry Cook, Brian Marwood and the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, in Abu Dhabi that his team needed more creativity.
Transfer romours with AC Milan:
AC Milan are launching a bid for Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor.
The Mail on Sunday says the Italians made their first move for Manchester City’s powerful African forward earlier this week when the two clubs met to consider an offer for AC’s Brazilian forward Alexandre Pato.
The bid for the 20-year-old was dismissed by Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani, who then enquired about Adebayor, the highest-paid player on the Eastlands staff.
Milan accept the Togo international will cost them at least the £25million City paid Arsenal for him a year ago.
Judging by the approach the Eastlands club made for Nikola Zigic before the Valencia striker joined Birmingham for £6m, however, it is clear they are prepared to offload Adebayor. He scored 14 goals in 25 Premier League appearances last season.
The agent of Ronaldinho admits his future at AC Milan remains in doubt.
Ronie is unhappy at proposals to reduce his wages over the final few years of his contract.
“We have no meeting planned with Milan, so we must wait and see what happens,” said agent Roberto De Assis.
“Clearly Milan must decide what to do. Any offers come in to the club and not to us, so it’s entirely up to them on how to proceed.”
Manchester City were linked with Ronaldinho last week. (Source)