AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has revealed that star goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is ‘completely off the market’ amid interest from Manchester United and Manchester City

MANCHESTER CITY and Manchester United have been knocked back in their quest to sign AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.

The Serie A club's president Silvio Berlusconi has issued a hands-off warning and has declared their star man to be "completely off the market."

At just 18-years-old, the Italian teenager already has two international caps to his name, and is widely considered to be among the best youth talents in the world.

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Since making his debut for the Rossoneri last season at just 16 years and 242 days old, Donnarumma has made 63 first team appearances and has caught the eye of clubs in the Premier League.

Pep Guardiola is reportedly willing to spend a world record transfer fee of £130million to acquire his services to sort out his goalkeeping crisis.

Berlusconi has responded to the rumours, and told Italian news outlet La Verita: "Gigio is one of Milan's jewels.

"He's a gorgeous product of our youth system, he feels strong attachment in his heart to the jersey and the Rossoneri colours. For us he's completely off the market."

Donnarumma was recently crowned as NxGn's best under-19 player in the world, beating the likes of Monaco's Kylian Mbappe and Borussia Dortmund's Christian Pulisic.

Berlusconi also spoke about the proposed sale of the club to Chinese investors that could convince his prized asset to stay.

He added: "I'm committed, so is my family, we'll proceed with the sale of the club only if there are all the guarantees both financial and for the relaunch of the club.

"The Chinese buyers have been impacted by some difficulties that couldn't have been predicted, but they guaranteed significant down payments: we're ready to continue to maintain our commitments and think the buyers will with theirs.

"Should the deal not go through we'll continue to build a young and Italian team."