£60m Emmanuel Adebayor

MANCHESTER CITY are on the brink of completing a stunning £25million swoop for Emmanuel Adebayor.

Arsenal's Togo striker will be offered a five-year deal at Eastlands worth around £130,000 per week.

That all adds up to a staggering £60m investment.

City boss Mark Hughes moved quickly after pulling out of the race for Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o.

City's opening offer for Adebayor fell around £5m short but they are willing to agree a compromise to get the hitman, 25.

Adebayor has been eyeing a move to AC Milan even though he signed a new long-term deal at The Emirates worth £80,000 a week last summer.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger could use the transfer funds to bring in Bordeaux's Morocco strike ace Marouane Chamakh.

Adebayor's departure is likely to be welcomed by some Gunners fans who see him as disruptive.

Indeed one supporters' group even put together a joke brochure - similar to the one produced by Michael Owen's agents - in a bid to see him leave North London.

But the City faithful will hope he can recapture the form of 2007-08, when he plundered 30 goals for the Gunners.

And if he does that then they will soon forget about Eto'o, whose dithering over his future saw the Premier League club pull out of a £25m deal on Friday.

Milan may be spurred into action by the latest developments.

But City - who jet out to South Africa tomorrow for a pre-season tour - are confident of landing Adebayor.

Gunners strike star Robin van Persie believes togetherness is the key to landing his first piece of silverware with Arsenal.

The Dutchman - who has committed his own future to the club - said: "We need to lift a trophy.

"Everyone needs to understand we have to do it together. If we do that we will."