Manchester City set to go head-to-head with Bayern in £20m-plus battle for Marco Reus

Manchester City will go head-to-head with Bayern Munich in a £20million-plus battle for Germany winger Marco Reus at the end of the season.

While Reus’s club Borussia Dortmund are adamant he will not be allowed to leave in the January window, they are resigned to losing him next summer because of an escape clause in his contract.

The 25-year-old’s deal runs until 2017 but has a release clause enabling him to join any club who meet Dortmund’s asking price of 25million euros.

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Borussia Dortmund are resigned to losing Germany international Marco Reus (L) in the summer

Reus trains with his Dortmund teammates in what could be his final campaign with the club

Marco Reus' Top 3 Bundesliga goals for Borussia Dortmund

Reus has a £25m euros escape clause in his contract, which has alerted a host of Premier League clubs

Manuel Pellegrini's City are confident of winning the chase with the offer of a £200,000-per-week deal

Bundesliga champions Bayern are prepared to match it, but so are City. And Manuel Pellegrini’s club are confident they can outbid their rivals on the wage front by putting together a package worth in excess of £200,000 a week.

Liverpool and Manchester United have also been linked with Reus, who has won 23 caps for his country.

But City believe they are in pole position to lure him to the Barclays Premier League and are hopeful that increasingly strained relations between Bayern and Dortmund will deter the winger from switching to Munich.

Pep Guardiola watches from the sidelines as Bayern Munich defeat Dortmund 2-1 on Saturday

Reus celebrates scoring against the Bundesliga champions, who have a history of signing Dortmund stars

Mario Gotze (L) and Robert Lewandowski have both moved from Dortmund to Bayern in recent seasons

Dortmund manager Klopp last week blasted Bayern Munich's conduct for admitting interest in Marco Reus and claims their comments could come back to bite them.

The Bundesliga champions have riled Klopp this week after Bayern Munich chairman Kerl-Heinz Rummenigge talked openly about a move for attacking midfielder Reus.

Earlier this week Rummenigge told Bild: 'We know in Munich that Reus has a lot of quality. For us a young German national player of such quality is interesting. But I do not want to cause unrest in Dortmund.'

In response Klopp told Bild: 'In a period where both teams are at the top, it's fun to reply to any questions,' adding that he knows 'nothing of what is going on right now' regarding Reus' contract situation.

One thing is for certain, the German ace is hot property with the likes of City, Arsenal and Liverpool all closely monitoring every move from now until January.