The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says the Premier League football club have agreed to sell Carlos Tevez to Brazilian side Corinthians although a fee for the 27-year-old has yet to be finalised.
Last week, City rejected a 40 million pounds ($NZ 76 million) bid from Corinthians, where the Argentinean played for 18 months between 2005-06.
The English Premier League side are believed to want around 50 million pounds for the player who joined them two years ago from Manchester United.
Tevez says he wants to return to South America to be closer to his family and his two young daughters.
Mancini says he doesn't know the current status of the negotiations or whether personal terms had been discussed.
Tevez was widely reported to be earning in excess of 200,000 pounds a week at City.
The Argentine had indicated he wanted to leave City last October but was tempted to stay and played an influential part in guiding the club to third place in the Premier League and a berth in the Champions League for the first time.
City also won the FA Cup last season, their first major trophy since 1976, and have made no secret of their desire to become one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
With the spending power of the club's billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi behind him, Mancini has already said he wanted to sign Argentine Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid as Tevez' replacement if he left the club, which now looks likely.
