Samir Nasri could yet stay with Manchester City next season.

The Daily Mail says the £120,000-a-week midfielder, 30, who is currently on loan at Sevilla, is surplus to requirements at City and the subject of a Uefa probe into an alleged breach of doping rules.

He has been linked with a number of clubs, but if he is banned, club officials are concerned that City could be lumbered with paying £12.5m in wages to a player who cannot play and who has two years left on his contract — not to mention missing out on a potential transfer fee of £12m.

The investigation was launched after a bizarre incident last December in which Nasri appeared to use an intravenous drip at a Los Angeles clinic.

If he is found to be in breach of anti-doping rules he could face a ban of up to four years, although two is thought to be more likely.