Barcelona have reportedly offered a contract to Sergio Aguero as the striker enters the final few months of his Manchester City deal.
The Argentina international has a deal at the Etihad Stadium until June 30, and there has been little in the way of discussions over an extension.
He is also the club’s all-time leading scorer with 256 goals in 382 appearances in all competitions.
Injury and illness have restricted his involvement, but Pep Guardiola has continued to favour other options since Aguero’s return to fitness.
Ahead of City’s 5-2 victory over Southampton on Wednesday, Guardiola said Aguero’s performances would decide whether or not he is offered a new deal.
"For the human being, as a person, as what is, even as a player, of course," the City boss said.
"But we have to see what happens at the end of the season. We cannot forget how long he was out. Now we start to get him better. I know he needs minutes to get to his best condition but we are not maybe in the moment that you can give minutes [for the sake of giving] minutes.
"So we are going to speak, I think the club will speak with his agent and know the situation, and we are going to talk at the end of the season, like with Fernandinho, for example, it's the same situation.
“We're going to see. Now it's coming the best two or three months, and we are going to decide not just him, players on contracts maybe will leave, maybe will loan, maybe players from the academy will come up, maybe we are going to buy players - I don't know how many.
"So we are going to decide at the end of the season. Now, honestly, I could tell you an answer that I would like, because I don't know what is going to happen.
“Because in my mind right now, far away is thinking what is going to happen next season, or to project where the players are going to be next season.”
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