City outcast Hart prefers permanent move, yet to receive offer

Joe Hart's one-year sojourn in Italy was just a one-off, as the English international is seeking a permanent move away from Manchester City.

The 30-year-old was raked from between the sticks by manager Pep Guardiola last summer, who chose Willy Caballero and, when his late-August capture was completed, Claudio Bravo as his preferred goalkeepers at the Etihad Stadium.

Hart was subsequently shipped out on a season-long loan to Torino, where he quickly won over the fans with his smatterings of Italian, but did commit five errors which led to goals - making it the second-worst Serie A campaign in that department after Palermo's Josip Posavec with seven.

For the sake of his national team credentials and club career, Hart suggests he needs to be settled at wherever he ends up this summer.

"I need an offer first and then I need to work out my options if I have choices," Hart told BBC Sport.

"I'm not a kid any more. I can't just pack my stuff like a 19, 17-year-old and go on loan. I am a 30-year-old man with stuff I need to organise. I like stability.

"I've got nothing at the moment because I think people are focused on international duty and respecting that players are focusing on international duty."

Hart stresses that there are no bad feelings between himself and City, which signed him from Shrewsbury Town for a fee that may have been as small as £100,000 in 2006, despite being unceremoniously dumped from first-team affairs shortly after Guardiola's appointment.

"They have obviously signed the new keeper (Ederson Moraes), and I get the direction (in which they are moving). There is no real need for me to talk to them," said Hart, according to the Guardian's Dominic Fifield. "I'm lucky enough to have management who deal with that side of things. I think they spoke to my agent. There is no animosity between the two teams; they are going about their business, and we are going to go about ours."

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Hart expects to be fielding offers from clubs when England wraps up its friendly in France on Tuesday, where Burnley's Tom Heaton and Stoke City's Jack Butland will play a half each in goal. With the stacked legion of goalkeepers vying for minutes in Gareth Southgate's side - Fraser Forster and Jordan Pickford are also under consideration - Hart knows his No. 1 jersey isn't assured.

"This shirt's not mine," he said. "It's not nailed-on, it's no-one's and we've got high quality.

"I have to be playing football at the top level, to the maximum of my ability, to even get in the squad at the moment."

Latest reports from Sky Sports News HQ understand that City will entertain another loan switch for Hart if no permanent approach is forthcoming. West Ham United is believed to be at the front of the queue if a temporary switch is granted.