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Juventus and Inter Milan will ramp up their interest in Manchester City's Aleksandar Kolarov in January - but will face competition from Zenit St Petersburg.

Kolarov, who joined the Blues from Rome side Lazio in 2010 for £19million, last week revealed his desire to head back to Serie A at some stage in his career.

Serbia international Kolarov has a string of admirers in Italy - most notably Inter and champions Juve, who are both keen to land him either in January or in the summer.

The 28-year-old - who scored a superb goal (see below) in Tuesday's League Cup win over Leicester - has battled with Gael Clichy to be first-choice left-back and could be tempted by the prospect of guaranteed first-team football in Italy.

However, Russian heavyweight Zenit are also monitoring the free-kick specialist, and are expected to make an offer of their own in the coming weeks.