Gonzalo Higuain will wait to sign a new deal with Real Madrid and reject a mammoth wage increase on offer from Manchester City.
The Argentina striker, currently Real Madrid's top scorer with 16 goals, has been earning a pittance by Bernabeu standards since he arrived as a teenager in 2007.
But his emergence as a first-team regular this season has seen Ruud van Nistelrooy and Raul fall by the wayside and left the club anxious to extend his current contract beyond 2013.
City tried to tempt him away with a contract offer that would have dwarfed his current £800,000-a-season deal and seen him link-up with international team-mate Carlos Tevez, but he wants to stay in Madrid.
"I am very happy and I would love to stay here many years," he said recently.
"But that is something that my agent, who is my father, is dealing with, and even though I am keeping up to date with it, I am focused on the matches. You earn a new deal playing on the pitch and scoring goals."
Real are said to be keen to offer the 22-year-old a new deal which would see him receive a salary hike, putting him on a par with Karim Benzema, who he has been keeping out of the limelight.