Manchester City and Chelsea set to battle for La Liga star

By Staff Writer
Updated: 19 February, 2013

Manchester City and Chelsea have been given the green light to launch a summer bid for Malaga midfielder Isco, according to quotes in AS.

Despite signing a contract extension in January, the highly rated 20 year old has admitted that he would be prepared to leave La Rosaleda stadium in order to ease the clubs financial difficulties.

“At the moment I’m not worried as I’m only thinking about being here but if a team does come to pay a lot of money for me, it will definitely be a big club.”

“Then, if it helps Malaga, I would not have a problem in leaving if it was good for both of us.”

And with Malaga set to be without the financial boost of European football – having been banned for up to four years – Los Boquerones’ could well need to cash in on their star asset sooner rather than later.

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