Ricky Hatton's camp have been warned they need to stump more cash to tempt light-welterweight kingpin Kostya Tszyu to Manchester for a world title showdown.

Russian-born Australian Tszyu sat down with manager Matt Watt on Tuesday to consider a deal to fight 'The Hitman' at the MEN Arena next year.

But with other options on the table - including a lucrative four-fight deal with American promoter Murad Muhammad - Watt has stressed Tszyu would want more than the £2million on offer to come to England.

Any fight with Hatton is likely to take place in the early hours of the morning to allow for US television scheduling, and Watt told Australia's Daily Telegraph: "At the end of the day the Manchester fight comes down to economics.

"The promoters are making a lot of additional money for themselves by staging the fight there.

"They get pay-per-view revenues out of the UK which will be enormous and the MEN Arena in Manchester will be choc-a-bloc.

"What the promoters have to do is show the champion why he should fight at four in the morning in the other guy's backyard.

"People are using Kostya's name to put an event on and the way it works is you have to take care of the talent.

"If we choose to fight Hatton in Manchester it will be because the deal makes sense not because we were forced into it."

While Hatton's promoter Frank Warren has expressed his confidence that an agreement will struck, there still appears to be plenty of distance between the two camps.

Tszyu could be stripped of his IBF belt if he does not face 'The Hitman' by August, but Watt insists his fighter has "gone beyond belts" and could yet opt for a multi-million dollar meeting with Oscar De La Hoya instead.

"We want to keep the IBF belt, of course," he added. "But if Kostya was to fight Oscar De La Hoya for US$10million, there would not have to be a world title belt involved."