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Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart is going nowhere despite reports of a January loan move, Manuel Pellegrini confirmed at Tuesday's Champions League press conference.

A report in the Mirror claimed that Hart would go to Stoke on loan as part of a deal to bring Asmir Begovic to the Blues in a £15m deal.

But Pellegrini took the opportunity at Tuesday's press conference ahead of the Viktoria Plzen game to quash that speculation.

Pellegrini said: "There is a lot of news about six or seven goalkeepers that we want to buy but it is not true.

"There is no chance that Joe Hart could go out of this squad in January."

Begovic has been on the radar of top Premier League clubs for a while, with the goalkeeper himself claiming earlier this season that he would be at City now if Roberto Mancini had still been in charge.