Manchester City are eyeing Real Madrid midfielder Mateo Kovacic.

The Mirror says City are turning to Kovacic as talks stall over Napoli midfielder Jorginho.

City agreed terms with Brazil-born Italy international Jorginho weeks ago, but are still haggling over his fee with Napoli. And this stalemate has left the door open to their move for the 26-year-old being hijacked.

City have contingency plans in place with boss Pep Guardiola having identified landing one more midfielder as one of his summer priorities.

Kovacic, who will be part of the squad trying to dump England out in Wednesday night's World Cup semi-final, is on that list along with Miralem Pjanic of Juventus and Southampton's Mario Lemina.