Manchester City is prepared to offer the 26-year-old a £250,000-a-week five-year contract in an attempt to persuade their skipper to stay at City.

However, Argentina striker Carlos Tevez is suffering from homesickness, he told The People: “Will I leave the Premier League? It is possible, but I don’t have a fixed date.”

Also  Tevez says: “he expects to be recuperated by the time the Manchester derby, the match is very important for me and the club,”  the derby will be Wednesday night.

Carlos Tevez  has scored 30 times in 44 Premier League matches.

Nurnberg make1-1 home at Hamburger SV, while Bayer Leverkusen rallied from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 at 10-man Hannover in the Bundesliga League.

Stuttgart fell to its third straight defeat by losing 2-1 at Freiburg, also Wolfsburg lose with 2-0 at Borussia Dortmund.

Eintracht Frankfurt’s win with 4-0 at Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Hoffenheim sent Schalke to its third loss with a 2-0 victory.

Also Bayern Munchen will pay today with Werder Bremen at 17 GMT.