AGUERO’S CASH SLASH

amount – with additional bonuses based on appearances.

Aguero, 32, the club’s all-time top scorer with 256 goals, has spent much of the last two seasons on the sidelines with injuries.

The former Atletico Madrid hitman, a £38million signing in 2011, has managed just nine appearances this season.

And those fitness issues mean the City hierarchy are wary of giving him anything longer than a year.

Aguero, though, knows he will be in big demand as a free transfer. Both Paris SaintGermain and Barcelona are monitoring developments.