Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is ready to buy a young African player off of World Cup form.
The Independent says in an Italian radio interview, Mancini said that one of the young African players he had seen at the World Cup had impressed him.
FC Basel's Ghana defender Samuel Inkoom and international teammate Isaac Vorsah, the Hoffenheim centre-half, are both being linked with City.
A move for Vorsah looks complicated after the player agreed a new deal with his club before the World Cup.
Inkoom was a member of the Ghana Under-20 team that won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Egypt.