• 'If he apologises … then everything will be as before' • Mancini blames bad advice for Tevez's poor attitude

Roberto Mancini will allow Carlos Tevez to return to the Manchester City team if he apologises for refusing to warm up.

The Argentina striker is threatening to sue Mancini after he accused him of refusing to play at Bayern Munich earlier this season but in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Mancini said: "Everything depends on Carlos. If he apologises to the squad and to me then everything will be as before. If he doesn't then Tevez has a value that everyone knows and something will happen in January.

"He is totally unprepared and being badly advised. I don't want it to be like this and I would be the first to forgive him."

Mancini also denied Tevez would be offered to Napoli, who sit one point and one place above City in Group A of the Champions League, as part-exchange for his fellow Argentinian striker Ezequiel Lavezzi. He said: "No one from City will be given away."

Tevez's adviser, Kia Joorabchian, has already admitted that the 27-year-old would welcome a move to another Premier League club. "His family are now living in England, so he's quite happy and settled," Joorabchian said.

"What a player he would be on loan but I think his wages are going to be a problem for anyone to take him. It's going to be a massive club only that can pay him £200,000 a week."