Fans’ favourites Carlos Tevez and Craig Bellamy have dropped big hints that they intend to still be at City next season.

Supporters feared that double player of the year Tevez might quit in search of Champions League football, just one year into a five-year deal.

And Bellamy raised eyebrows by waving to fans as he walked down the tunnel at the end of Wednesday night’s defeat by Spurs, as if bidding farewell.

He said earlier this season that he will probably be retired in two years’ time, and had a disagreement with manager Roberto Mancini about the best way to manage a knee problem which restricts his appearances.

But at Thursday night’s awards dinner, Tevez spoke of having City in his heart, and of the way the club will progress over the next two years.

“In one year, two years, this club will be a huge, huge club. It will keep on growing and then then City fans will get what they deserve,” he said after picking up both the players’ player of the year and the Etihad supporters’ player of the year trophies.

“These days I have two things in my heart – City and Argentina. I hope I can score some goals at the World Cup but save some up for City as well,” he said with a grin.

Bellamy also reassured anxious fans at the event that he is going nowhere in the summer.