now it's in the fuking mail:
Real agree £25m fee for City target Isco in bid to hijack 'father' Pellegrini's move
By Pete Jenson
PUBLISHED: 07:41 GMT, 22 June 2013 | UPDATED: 07:45 GMT, 22 June 2013
Real Madrid say they have had a £25million bid for Isco accepted by Malaga leaving the player to now decide his fate this weekend.
Isco had previously favoured a move to Manchester City where the man he has described as his ‘footballing father’ Manuel Pellegrini is the new coach.
But Madrid president Florentino Perez met Malaga’s Chief Executive Vicente Casado yesterday and they are now confident of hijacking City’s deal.
Champion: Isco, who won the U21 Euros with Spain, is the subject of a £25m bid from Real Madrid
Madrid’s agreement with Malaga means nothing without agreement with the player who is torn between joining his close pal David Silva and his former coach in Manchester, and joining Spain’s biggest club.
The successful signing of Isco would end Madrid’s efforts to sign Tottenham’s Gareth Bale this summer though they could still lay the foundations for a deal to be closed next year.