Manchester City have reignited the title race since their excellent win over Liverpool at the beginning of 2019 to begin an unblemished start to the season which has seen four back-to-back wins, 21 goals scored, three clean sheets, just a single goal put past them, and progression in both the FA Cup and (in all but writing) the League Cup.
The swagger is back at the Etihad and Pep Guardiola’s Blues are looking to march on, but intriguingly could hope to do so with Tottenham Hotspur’s Christian Eriksen among their ranks.
Yes, Manchester City have entered the fray with La Liga colossus Real Madrid for one of the Premier League’s standout players, attempting procure the Danish dynamo with contract extension talks to keep him at Spurs so far not coming into fruition.
Eriksen is currently contracted as a Lilywhites player for another 18 months, until the end of the 2019/20. Understandably not wanting to see one of their very best players left for free, Spurs recently slapped the brobdingnagian price tag of £250million on him when Madrid came sniffing around.
Sources close to the midfielder have been cited by AS; "It's hard to name just one particular top-level club who are keeping a close eye on him, because there are sides from England, Spain, Italy and Germany."
Spurs will be hoping that City don’t emerge as an even greater contender, after the Manchester side pulled further ahead in the Premier League title race.
Eriksen - bought for the piddling fee of £11million with the funds of the Gareth Bale sale in 2013 - has made over 250 appearances for Spurs, contributing 52 goals and 78 assists over the five and a half years.
According to bookmaker betVictor, City are now fourth favourites - at 14/1 - to be Eriksen’s next club, ahead of European giants Inter Milan, Bayern Munich (both at 16/1), Juventus (20/1), and AC Milan (25/1).
Incumbent Champions League holders Real Madrid remain clear favourites for his signature, at 2/1.
