The agent of Romelu Lukaku has confirmed Manchester City attempted to lure him away from Inter Milan last summer, before the Chelsea striker eventually returned to the Premier League in August.
It has been no secret that Pep Guardiola is actively in the marker for a striker, with Sergio Aguero leaving in the summer and Gabriel Jesus not viewed as the man to consistently lead City’s frontline, with the club infamously failing in their attempts to sign Harry Kane in the window just gone.
A number of elite-status names have cropped up as potential City targets, but before the club’s well-documented pursuit of Tottenham and England marksman Kane, they were courting Lukaku last summer, with the player’s agent Federico Pastorello confirming their “very concrete” interest.
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