MANCHESTER (AP) – Carlos Tevez will not be charged with refusing to play against Bayern Munich but will be charged over refusing to warm up.

City manager Roberto Mancini claimed after last month’s UEFA Champions League defeat in Germany that Tevez refused to come on as a substitute, an accusation that was denied by the player.

The club suspended him whilst an internal investigation was carried out, and will attend a disciplinary hearing on Friday afternoon when his future at the club could become clearer.

Tevez is facing a number of charges and one of those is that he refused to warm up under the instruction of Mancini.

But it is understood that no further action will be taken over claims that he refused to come on as a substitute.

In the immediate aftermath of the match, Mancini said: “He refused to come onto the pitch. It is a bad situation.”

But Tevez refuted that version of events and, speaking through a translator, said: “I didn’t want to warm up because I wasn’t feeling very well, so I thought it was better not to.

“I didn’t think I was in a good situation to come on because my head wasn’t in the right place.”