Villa on Man City's radar

Manchester City are prepared to give Valencia a huge deposit for in-demand striker David Villa as first option on the Spaniard.The Middle Eastern-backed club knows Valencia are in serious debt and has dangled a fat carrot for the Spanish side in order to secure the services of Villa.Fernando Gomez, vice-president of the financially stricken Spanish outfit, has revealed that representatives from both parties formally met recently to open preliminary talks, although there have been no official offers made just yet.However, Barcelona-based daily Sport believes that at the moment, City are the only club willing to meet Villa’s €40 million asking price and not only that, they are also more than prepared and capable to pay cash in advance even though the player would not be able to move to Eastlands until the end of the season.It is also reported that Valencia are eager to close the deal as soon as possible, preferably by sometime next week, to help ease their financial woes as they have an negotiable requirement to pay of a series of debts by the end of May.