CITY OFFER £130M FOR CASILLAS
Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners are planning to use their petro billions in January’s transfer market and will offer Real Madrid a record-smashing 150m Euros (£128m) to activate Iker Casillas’s buy-out clause, Spanish sources report.
The 27-year-old goalkeeper, who captained Spain to Euro 2008 glory – their first success in 44 years – looks set to double his money in the Premier League as City have offered 13m Euros (£11m) per year, his agent, Luis Garcia Abad, claims.
But 88-cap Casillas will have to decide whether he wants to stay at his home town club, which he joined aged 10, or move to Manchester. In February he signed a contract extension that tied him to the club until 2017.
City have not yet offered Madrid the money directly, as they want to see what Casillas’s reaction is - if they activate the buy-out clause, the club will have no choice in the transfer – it is down to the ‘keeper alone.
City had been previously chasing Italian international goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, but the Juventus stopper indicated he had no plans to leave Turin.
Source: Cadena SER radio
Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners are planning to use their petro billions in January’s transfer market and will offer Real Madrid a record-smashing 150m Euros (£128m) to activate Iker Casillas’s buy-out clause, Spanish sources report.
The 27-year-old goalkeeper, who captained Spain to Euro 2008 glory – their first success in 44 years – looks set to double his money in the Premier League as City have offered 13m Euros (£11m) per year, his agent, Luis Garcia Abad, claims.
But 88-cap Casillas will have to decide whether he wants to stay at his home town club, which he joined aged 10, or move to Manchester. In February he signed a contract extension that tied him to the club until 2017.
City have not yet offered Madrid the money directly, as they want to see what Casillas’s reaction is - if they activate the buy-out clause, the club will have no choice in the transfer – it is down to the ‘keeper alone.
City had been previously chasing Italian international goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, but the Juventus stopper indicated he had no plans to leave Turin.
Source: Cadena SER radio
Labels: Iker Casillas, Manchester City, Premier League, Real Madrid
