Soccer: AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has brushed aside rumours Alexandre Pato or any other Rossonero player would be included in the deal to bring Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez to the San Siro in January.

Speculation in England claimed Milan would be ready to offer Brazilian striker Pato to City as part of a swap deal that would see Tevez join the Italian champions.

"There is an offer sent to Manchester for Tevez," Galliani said to milanews.it. "However, we have not spoken about any of our players going to City or any other club.

"Our fans can be calm because this is the truth."

AC Milan claimed this week they had reached an agreement with Tevez and had sent an offer to City to acquire the player on loan in the winter transfer market.

"We know that City's desire is to sell the player but our offer is to get the player on loan with an option to make that deal permanent," Galliani had said. "We hope that City says yes because our offer will not be modified.

"I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic. What I can certainly say is that the player would like to come to Milan, it would his preferred destination. But we must convince City to loan the player out and that is not easy."

Galliani also revealed Paris St Germain are also in the race to acquire Tevez.

The 27-year-old Tevez is set to leave the Blues in the new year after his latest fallout with the club. The Argentina international returned to his homeland last month without City's permission and he is yet to report back to training.