Manchester City remain confident of concluding their lengthy pursuit of Joleon Lescott today, despite their failure to rubber-stamp a £22m deal for the Everton defender last night.
Lescott, 27, passed a medical in Manchester on Monday and personal terms of £90,000-a-week are understood to have been agreed by the England player.
But the finer details of the transfer have yet to be thrashed out, with City still to finalise agreements with all parties involved in the negotiations.
The Eastlands club had hoped to unveil Lescott officially at a press conference later today and, while such an event may yet take place this afternoon, the player might ultimately be presented to the media on Wednesday should completion of the transfer be delayed further.
City regard the hitch as a minor inconvenience, with both the Lescott and Everton ends tied up, yet the transfer cannot be officially signed off until an agreement is struck with representatives involved in the deal.
Premier League newcomers Wolves are due to receive in excess of £3m from the transfer having insisted on a 15 per cent sell-on clause when selling Lescott to Everton for £5m in 2006.
Lescott's arrival at Eastlands will take manager Mark Hughes's spending close to the £120m mark this summer and the former Molineux defender could make his debut in the Premier League clash with Portsmouth at Fratton Park on Sunday.
City captain Richard Dunne is facing an uncertain future, however following the signing of Lescott.
Hughes has assured the Republic of Ireland international that he has a future at Eastlands and the manager has already rejected interest from Sunderland and Aston Villa this summer.
Villa remain keen to sign Dunne and Everton manager David Moyes is also considering a move for the former Goodison Park defender should interest in Portsmouth's Sylvain Distin and Bolton's Gary Cahill fail to result in a successful transfer.
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