Pablo Zabaleta will fly back to England after receiving an SOS from injury-hit Manchester City.
The Daily Mail says Zabaleta is set to leave his father's hospital bedside in Argentina to solve Manchester City's defensive crisis.
Zabaleta has been on compassionate leave since 57-year-old Jorge Ruben was badly injured in a car crash in Buenos Aires earlier this month.
City have been careful not to put any pressure on him to return to the club until he feels ready despite seeing their two right-backs, Micah Richards and Jerome Boateng, sidelined with potentially season-ending injuries in the last week, and suspending Kolo Toure over his failed drugs test.
But having coming out of a coma in a hospital in Pergamino, Zabaleta's father has recovered sufficiently to be taken off the critical list as well.
It now seems likely that the versatile player will be able to fly back in time for Sunday's game at home to Sunderland.
