Man City plot stunning £400,000-a-week deal to beat Chelsea and Man Utd to Lionel Messi

MANCHESTER CITY are prepared to pay an astonishing £400,000-a-week to land Lionel Messi, according to reports.

 

Lionel Messi is set to be offered £400,000-a-week to join Man City

 

Messi has 18 months left on his Barcelona deal and has become frustrated with tax issues in Spain.

Chelsea and Manchester United have expressed an interest in Messi but, with Pep Guardiola likely to be City-bound, it appears they're going for the jugular.

If City can land their dream duo it would take their standing in the game up a notch and make them European heavyweights overnight.

 

The Manchester Evening News cite sources in Spain suggesting that City have made a "tentative approach" to Messi's advisers with the thought of a £20million-a-year deal.

Guardiola is set to join City when he quits Bayern Munich in the summer, meaning Manuel Pellegrini will be dismissed just a year into his new deal.

City have chased the Spaniard ever since the arrival of Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano at the club.