Man City approach Chelsea over British-record Enzo Fernandez transfer as they eye £200MILLION deadline day double deal

MANCHESTER CITY are gearing up for a £200million double deadline day swoop. City are confident of beating Tottenham to the signing of £60m Everton star Iliman Ndiaye – after Liverpool rejected their £80m bid for Cody Gakpo offer. Iliman Ndiaye is set to join Man City from Everton Credit: Shutterstock Editorial City still want to sign Chelsea star Enzo Fernandez Credit: Getty And Etihad chiefs are finally engaged in club-to-club talks with Chelsea over midfielder Enzo Fernandez. It is understood City and the Blues remain quite a distance apart on the valuation of the Argentina star. Sign up for the Football newsletter Thank you! Fernandez was available for £120m, with a strict instalment schedule, until August 14. But Chelsea are now holding out for a bigger fee and negotiations are likely to go down to the wire, with the transfer window closing at 11pm on Tuesday. Some sources believe it is possible no deal will be struck in time. The Blues have lined up Monaco’s Lamine Camara and Roma’s Manu Kone as potential replacements for Fernandez – if talks progress quickly enough for them to sell and buy. City moved swiftly to hijack Tottenham’s pursuit of Ndiaye after ending their interest in Gakpo. Etihad bosses offered Liverpool a £75m fee up front, plus £5m in add-ons for the Holland international. Most read in Football BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS But when Anfield chiefs turned it down, City renewed their interest in Senegal international Ndiaye. The news was a big blow to Spurs, who had been expecting the former Sheffield United player to arrive for a medical. Tottenham had also been pursuing Gakpo to fill their left-wing slot and be the final jigsaw piece in a £400m summer spending spree. Now they are looking at the cut-price option of signing Mykhailo Mudryk on loan from Chelsea. Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi worked with Mudryk at Shakhtar Donetsk and expressed support for him during his ban for failing a drugs test. After Tottenham and Chelsea met in a pre-season friendly in Sydney, De Zerbi described the Ukraine international as “my son”. Mykhailo Mudryk has a strong relationship with Roberto De Zerbi Credit: Getty Comment now