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Kevin De Bruyne’s agent has given Manchester City hope of landing the Belgian midfielder - despite reports that he is set to join Bayern Munich for around £45m.

The Blues have been heavily linked with a summer move for the Wolfsburg man - with Paris St Germain also interested.

De Bruyne, 23, who left Chelsea for the German club for £18m in January 2014, has scored 15 goals and made 22 assists in a brilliant season.

He helped Wolfsburg to second place in the Bundesliga and the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

Bayern are favourites to sign De Bruyne but his agent Patrick De Koster has not ruled out a move to the Etihad.

De Koster admitted that he has held discussions with City’s director of football Txiki Begiristain - who was thought to be in Germany today - and told The Guardian : “I have met the people from Manchester City and we know each other.

“For the moment, there are no formal discussions. Of course, in the next few weeks I will going around the world to talk about the situation with Kevin but this is just informal information.

“I’ve never spoken to anyone from Manchester United but a lot of other clubs have been in touch to find out some general information.

“I think with the season Kevin has had if we didn’t have these questions then there would be something wrong. I saw Mino Raiola’s quotes about taking 20 phone calls a day regarding Paul Pogba and it’s the same situation for me and probably for the agent of Memphis Depay at the moment.”

When asked how much a buyer would have to pay to land De Bruyne, De Koster added: “I don’t know. Wolfsburg paid €24m to Chelsea so I can see it being a lot more than that.”