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The contract of the captain of the city expires this summer and his boss can give no guarantee for a new contract.
Pep Guardiola admits that he could be ready to let captain Vincent Kompany leave Manchester City at the end of the season.
The 32-year contract expires this summer and has not yet reached an agreement on a new contract with the champions of the Premier League.
Kompany has spent more than 10 years at Etihad Stadium and has become a symbol of the club's new success under its owner Sheikh Mansour.
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The Belgian has won three Premier League titles, three EFL Cups, one FA Cup and two Community Shields during his time at the club.
However, injuries have begun to wreak havoc in recent years, dramatically reducing play time.
Kompany has made just nine appearances in the Premier League so far this season and has not played since City's 2-1 victory over Liverpool on Jan. 3 due to a muscle injury.
Guardiola, who revealed earlier this month that discussions had begun on a new agreement, acknowledged that Kompany's injury difficulties would be taken into account in the discussions.
"I think it's a problem with which we have to talk with Vincent," Guardiola told the club's website. "We have no doubt about its quality.
"We miss him when he can not play, he is our captain and, on the ground, he gives us something more than few central defenders in the world can offer us.
"It's amazing, but the reality is that it plays very little in the last five years.
"That's the situation we're going to put on the table with the club. We will discuss this with his agent and determine which is the best solution for both. "
Despite the decreasing influence of Kompany on the field, Guardiola has no doubt about his influence.
The Manchester City boss has hinted that former players from Anderlecht and Hamburg could be offered a non-player role at the club when he decided to hang up.
"J & # 39; would [keep him at the Club]. He has something special, "added Guardiola.
"Personality on and off the field, he speaks six or seven languages to be able to communicate well.
"We need people for what they have done in the past to help new players of the next generation. He helped us build the club we have now.
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"The question of feelings is so important: he has been here for a long time and he has helped us build what we have now for the new people who will come after. [us]. We can not forget that.
"I do not like clubs saying OK it's done, go ahead, but at the same time, there's a time when it's over. It's not my decision, like him, as with Sergio [Aguero], David [Silva] always be with the club.
"I've often talked to him about how we can help. But that's his decision with the club and his agent. I'm not involved, I just give my opinion. "
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