Samuel Eto'o could be on his way to Manchester City after Barcelona's president, Joan Laporta, revealed the Premier League club had made the striker a "stratospheric offer".
Reports suggest the Catalan giants have accepted a €30m (£25.5m) bid from City and Laporta believes the temptation of a mega salary would prove too much for Eto'o.
"Eto'o has a stratospheric offer from City, which would convert him into the best-paid player in the world," he told the Catalan radio station iCat FM.
"It's starting to become clear that he has this monster offer. He wants to stay but an offer like this is very difficult to refuse. If Eto'o accepts this stratospheric offer we will have to bring in someone."
"He will do the pre-season with us, and then Pep [Guardiola, the Barça manager] will decide if he stays."
Laporta added that they would step up their efforts to sign the Valencia striker David Villa, although any future action was not dependent on Eto'o leaving.
"If Eto'o accepts Manchester City's mammoth offer, we will need another striker. Anyway, both of them can play together, and that would be very competitive. Txiki Begiristain [the club's technical director] will decide [what we do]."
Laporta then moved on to the case of the France winger Franck Ribéry: "He knows that we like him a lot, but if Bayern do not want to sell, we must respect that."
Finally, Laporta touched on Filipe Luis, following Deportivo La Coruña's rejection of Barça's latest offer: "We are not going to pay €20m for him. We presented a sensible offer, but that figure is out of reach."
Barça have, according to reports, bid €20m for the Palmeiras forward Keirrison, with the Brazilian club's willingness to sell the 20-year-old leading to the sacking of their head coach, Vanderlei Luxemburgo.
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