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Manchester City are waiting for Paul Pogba to give them the green light to hit Juventus with an official £71million bid.

Despite reports that City are confident of signing the French midfielder, Sunday Mirror Sport can reveal that the Blues are still to submit a formal offer.

They have held negotiations with Juventus to discover their valuation – and have made it clear they are willing to meet the asking price of €100million (£70.92million) up front as well as a package of add-ons.

City have also spoken to Pogba’s agent, Mino Raiola, and are prepared to pay the 22-year-old a staggering £240,000-a-week basic, plus huge bonuses.

But City are holding back on making a bid to Juventus until Pogba tells them he wants to come to the Etihad.

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They do not want to be used as a bargaining tool by either Juve or the player to drive up offers from rival clubs.

Pogba, the former Manchester United starlet, is still agonising over his future.

Barcelona are City’s biggest threat , despite from Real Madrid, Paris St Germain and Chelsea.

But the Catalan club are serving a transfer ban until January 2016 and that would mean Pogba remaining with Juventus for another year given he would be required to play for the Turin club in the Champions League.

Pogba’s adviser is also wary that the player maybe being used as a pawn by the candidates fighting to be elected as Barca’s next president.

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City will press ahead with their efforts to sign Raheem Sterling this week – although there is still a reluctance at the Etihad to meet Liverpool’s £50million demand in full after a second bid of £35million plus £5million in add-ons was rejected.

With Belgian playmaker Kevin De Bruyne expected to give City the signal to press ahead with a £35million offer to Wolfsburg by rejecting a new contract when he returns from holiday, the Manchester club are making good on chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s promise to spend big this summer.

Khaldoon’s commitment has been matched by the City fans, with a record 39,000 season tickets now sold for the redeveloped 54,000-capacity Etihad.

Another 2,500 supporters who made a £100 downpayment last season on a season ticket are expected to swell that number.

And those figures are likely to get another boost if City get to unveil £150million of new signings.

A club insider said: “Season ticket sales have gone brilliantly and we are likely to have a 50,000-plus average crowd for the first time in our history.”