Manchester City are ready to take on arch-rivals Liverpool in the battle to sign Brighton World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister.
Fresh from their third straight Premier League title win, City are set for a summer spending spree to keep the chasing pack at arm's length and continue their domestic dominance.
Boss Pep Guardiola has identified the £60million-rated Argentina midfielder as the ideal replacement for Ilkay Gundogan and Bernardo Silva, both of whom are set to leave City this summer. And Guardiola could make it a double Seagulls swoop, with the City boss also said to be a huge admirer of Brighton's 19-year-old Paraguay sensation, Julio Enciso.