Real Madrid are planning to swoop for Manchester City star Bernardo Silva this summer.
Santiago Solari's side sit seven points behind Barcelona in La Liga who have a game in hand.
Now the Spanish giants are hoping to rebuild a squad that has struggled with Cristiano Ronaldo departing in the summer.
Madrid believe Bernardo is now the man to add more creative spark to their attack according to the Mirror.
The Portuguese midfielder has three and a half years left on his contract and City may now be forced to enter contract talks with the player.
Pep Guardiola sees the 24-year-old as the successor to veteran David Silva.
Bernardo joined from Monaco in 2017 for £43.5million and is now a regular in the City team having been a bit-part player last campaign.
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Madrid actual priority target is Neymar and back up priority target is Hazard. Eriksen and Silva and all the other names are just being linked for the sake of the dead January window to have flavour, like the one about Coutinho lmao... Lots of fake rumours, easy to make out which are real and which are not...