Manchester City are preparing an amazing £140 MILLION double swoop for Liverpool stars Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard. The News of the World says there are those at Anfield only too aware of the threat from City, not least to Liverpool's two biggest stars.

After the false dawn of Thakskin Shinawatra, the pledges of owner Sheikh Mansour are proving to be no mirage.

That sends out a compelling message to both Torres and Gerrard - that they may have to re-evaluate their futures in the summer.

It's not even a secret within the City corridors of power that the hierarchy are plotting a £140million double swoop for both Torres and Gerrard this summer.

City officials are already planning how they can pull off what would be one of the most audacious transfer coups of all time.

Fourth place and Champions League football would inevitably help sugar the pill of an Anfield parting but even without the lure of football at the highest level, City believe they hold more than a few aces.