Manchester City are paying a staggering amount for Torino to keep Joe Hart on-loan this season.

The Daily Star says City's money men agreed to cough up 90 per cent of Hart's Etihad salary for his Pep Guardiola-sanctioned loan deal to the Italian side until the summer.

Hart is reported to be on a basic £130,000-a-week salary so taking into account City's contribution that adds up to a tidy £4.212m they will have had to hand over for his short, expensive nine-month spell in Serie A.

Add to that the £15.4million spent to bring in his controversial replacement Claudio Bravo, plus the Chilean's £10,000-a-week wages, and the total cost of Hart's exit soars to a hefty £19.972m.

City boss Guardiola made the decision to end Hart's decade of loyalty after being convinced he was not the ball-playing keeper he demanded from his first-choice stopper.