Yaya Toure is being lined up by BOTH Milan clubs as AC and Inter battle for the Manchester City giant’s signature
YAYA TOURE has been targeted by BOTH Milan clubs.
Toure’s contract at Manchester City ends in the summer, and would love a new deal that keeps him at the Etihad.
The powerful Ivorian is a wanted man as he approaches the end of his contract with Manchester cityGetty Images
Yet that is unlikely – and the two Italian outfits are ready to go head to head and try and tempt him to finish his playing days in Serie A.
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Toure, who will be 34 in May, has twice come close to signing for Inter in the last couple of years, only for a late change of heart and the intervention of City’s top brass.
His agent, Dimitri Seluk, claims no less than five clubs are interested in the Ivory Coast midfielder, and former club Monaco are said to be one of them.
Now AC and Inter are set to show their hand, although Toure knows he is likely to have to take a pay cut wherever he ends up.
Yaya Toure could be set for a switch to Italy with both Milan clubs keen to acquire his servicesReutersPep Guardiola hasn’t offered Yaya Toure a new contractReuters
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He currently earns £230,000 a week at City with bonuses – and both Italian sides are willing to stretch to slightly less than half that AFTER tax, as no fee is involved.
Meanwhile, Valencia are trying to slash the £16m asking price to buy Eliaqium Mangala in the summer.
Mangala is spending the season on loan in Spain, and City hoped to get the £32m flop off their books with a permanent move at the end of that.
Yaya Toure is the biggest-name star whose City future has been put on hold until the summerNews Group Newspapers Ltd
Valencia refused to sign a commitment to buy agreement when he joined them, instead nailing down a guaranteed price of half the fee he cost from Porto - if they wanted him.
Despite a dodgy first half of the campaign, his performances over the last six weeks have prompted a rethink by club bosses, and they are keen for him to join full time.
But they cannot afford the fee and his £110,000 a week wages, and want to cut the asking price by £4m.
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