The Guardian says Wenger is considering reporting Internazionale to Uefa for tapping up Hleb. The Arsenal midfielder left the team's hotel the night before the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Milan two weeks ago with the agent Claudio Vigorelli and is believed to have travelled to Inter's offices on Via Durini.

Vigorelli is an associate of Vincenzo Morabito, a leading international agent who has dealt frequently with Premier League clubs and is a director of the leading English agency First Artist. Yesterday Morabito denied there had been a meeting with Inter but conceded that Vigorelli and Hleb had shared a taxi from the Melia Felix hotel, where Arsenal were staying, and that Wenger had made a complaint.

"It's true that Hleb saw Vigorelli and they went out from the Melia Felix but it's not true that they went to talk to Inter Milan," said Morabito. "They went for an ice-cream. We are sorry that Mr Wenger took it badly and complained because we have a good relationship with him."

Inter and Barcelona have been linked with Hleb since the close of the January market.