Milan: AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani has declared the club will decide whether to sign Manchester City's Carlos Tevez or Catania's Maxi Lopez on Friday.
The Serie A champions have reached an agreement with Catania for Lopez, but they will only sign the former Barcelona striker if they fail in their efforts for Tevez.
Despite Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak declaring he is unimpressed over the manner in which Milan have conducted negotiations for Tevez, Galliani is hopeful that a deal for the currently AWOL hitman is still possible.
"If Maxi Lopez can join as well... Who knows?," said Galliani before a dinner meeting with the Catania player and his agent.
"I will just repeat that if he does not arrive, we will sign Tevez, but they are two alternative options. We will make a decision on Friday."
However, after the meeting, in which Milan director Ariedo Braida also took part, Galliani ruled out the possibility of signing the two players.
"On Friday we will choose either Lopez or Tevez," he said. "Maxi has been very nice, but we will see. Either he stays at Catania or he comes to us."
It would seem Milan are the only club left in the running to sign Tevez, despite initially having ruled themselves out, after fellow suitors Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan dropped out of the race.
"We're no longer interested in Tevez. He is following a different path," Inter board member Marco Tronchetti Provera told Ansa.
"Our own stars have returned from injury and are back in top form. We have recovered our own champions and don't need Tevez or anyone else anymore, regardless of the fact that Tevez remains a great champion."
The 2010 Champions League winners saw an offer for the Argentine rejected earlier this winter, and have no intention of tabling another bid for Tevez following the return to form of Diego Milito and Wesley Sneijder's return from injury.
PSG also failed in their latest efforts to recruit a star player, with sporting director Leonardo saying the French club has ended negotiations to sign Tevez.
After missing out on former England captain David Beckham and AC Milan striker Alexandre Pato, Tevez became PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti's priority signing and Leonardo met with the player's adviser, Kia Joorabchian, in Paris last week.
"We've ended the negotiations. We made a handsome offer but we couldn't reach an agreement," sports daily L'Equipe quoted Leonardo as saying on Tuesday. "So we're stopping. It's over."
Tevez has not played for City since September.
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