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Alla Zakarian

18-08-2020 | 15:46 Football
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Manchester City ‘ahead’ of competition and ‘ready to increase initial offer’ for player

Manchester City will come back with an improved offer for Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly. Il Mattino, Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport all hint at it with varying degrees of conviction. The local Naples newspaper have a big transfer roundup of the what their club is planning on doing this summer, and while the big topic might be Allan, Koulibaly gets a mention too. It’s said the 29-year-old ‘continues to represent the number one goal for Manchester City where the Sheikh is ready to increase the initial offer of €70m to convince Aurelio De Laurentiis’. Moving onto Gazzetta, they state the Premier League club ‘seem intent on bringing the offer for Koulibaly up to €70m’ and ‘who knows how long De Laurentiis will be able to hold out?’. As for Corriere in all of this, they believe ‘we are entering a week that can become decisive’, explaining that City are ‘ahead’ of the competition, mainly Manchester United, with their €70m offer (which included bonuses). That was deemed ‘insufficient’ by De Laurentiis, but ‘there is a willingness’ from the Cityzens’ end to ‘plan a deal’ i.e. come back with a second attempt. Source: SportsWitness

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