A big article in Spanish football daily Diario AS says that City have gone back in for Zaragoza striker Diego Milito.
The paper reports that 'in the last few hours' Mark Hughes has contacted Real Zaragoza enquiring the asking price for either a transfer or a season long loan. While the club do not want to sell, apparently an offer of €18million (£14.4million) would be enough to convince them to part with the Argentinian forward who still has three years left on his contract.
The article claims that City intially made a bid in December of €15million(£12m), which was rejected as Zaragoza were looking for €20m (£16m). This fits with something Guillem Balague once said on a 'The Game Podcast' at that time.
But with Zaragoza's relegation to the Segunda Division, the player wants to leave and the club need the money. The only club to have thus far made a formal offer is Napoli, with €12m (£9.6m). AS reports that neither City nor Everton have formally submitted an offer in writing for Milito yet, and that no negotiations can start until they do.
Milito is currently in Argentina attending to a family emergency, but he will fly back on Sunday and start pre-season training on Monday - the same day that his lawyer, Adrian Faija, will discuss his future with Real Zaragoza.
I wrote at some length about Diego Milito's record HERE - he has a very impressive scoring record and would be a great buy.
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