Tevez

[Art Deco]

I'v lost all respect for the guy...

Enjoy that paycheck and stagnation in the the non CL mid table Premiership.

[IndoCulé]

I'v lost all respect for the guy...

Enjoy that paycheck and stagnation in the the non CL mid table Premiership.

With all the signings they have made so far, I have this feeling they will do well in EPL next season. I'm guessing they will finished top 7 - Euro Qualification.

[Snauhi]

I'v lost all respect for the guy...

Enjoy that paycheck and stagnation in the the non CL mid table Premiership.

With all the signings they have made so far, I have this feeling they will do well in EPL next season. I'm guessing they will finished top 7 - Euro Qualification.

We all know that how squad looks on paper means s***.. I predict that they will do better then last year, but not as good as some people expect them to do.

[IndoCulé]

Carlos Tevez Is Given Assurances Over Role At City

Carlos Tevez has been assured he will not be used as an impact player at Manchester City.

Tevez put in an impressive performance when he stepped off the bench in the 2-2 draw against Liverpool at the weekend and was involved in Stephen Ireland's goal at Anfield, but he has struggled to find the target himself.

However, first-team coach Eddie Niedzwiecki has dismissed the notion of the former Manchester United forward spending too much time on the bench and insisted he should not be considered a super-sub.

"To label him in that way is completely wrong," he told the club's official website. "We had a specific game-plan and Carlos made such an impression when he came on.

"Because of the players we have and the size of the squad, there will be times when the boss has to leave out certain individuals or play a different system. That's the flexibility we want.

"Carlos had just been away with Argentina, where there was a lot of emotion surrounding the national team, but he showed real desire when he came on and he changed what had gone on.

"He gave the team a trigger, and it was Carlos closing down the full-back that led to the second goal. He chased a lost cause and won the ball back in the corner.

"Carlos is playing with a smile on his face and he loves to express himself on the pitch. I'm sure we'll soon see him knocking the goals in like the talent we know he is."

Article taken from: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... nd&cc=4716

[IndoCulé]

Joorabchian Defends Carlos Tevez Over City Absence

Kia Joorabchian has defended Carlos Tevez's commitment to the Manchester City cause after Roberto Mancini "ordered" the striker to return to the club from Argentina, following the premature birth of his daughter.

Tevez has been granted compassionate leave to fly to his home country in order to be by the side of his daughter Katie, who is currently in intensive care after being born six weeks premature.

City manager Roberto Mancini is keen to have the club's top scorer back at his disposal though and, following a 0-0 draw against Liverpool on Sunday, said of Tevez: "It's a big problem for us because we have an important week and we don't have Tevez. For me it is no good. Carlos has been eight days at home and I don't know if, while in Argentina, he has been working (on his fitness).

"I hope Carlos, within the next two days, can come back here because we need him. Maybe he is on the plane. He had some problems with his family but now it has been resolved and I hope he comes back. I need him."

Tevez, who joined City last summer after spending two years with city rivals United, hopes to be back in time to play for Mancini's side in their game against Chelsea at the weekend.

Tevez has been outstanding this season, both under former manager Mark Hughes and Mancini, so the Argentine superstar was distressed to learn that his continued absence from the City team was addressed by his new Italian boss after the club's draw with Liverpool at Eastlands.

Joorabchian - the man who brought both Tevez and Javier Mascherano to English football in the summer of 2006 - chose his words carefully as he responded to Mancini's comments.

"Carlos is very keen to support the team and to come back as soon as possible," Joorabchian told Soccernet. "Carlos has given 100% to the team all season, he has given everything to the team, but his daughter has been in intensive care having been born prematurely.

"He has been clearly distressed to see his daughter in such a state with tubes coming out of her and her condition so serious. But his daughter is a little better now so he is hoping to come back for the Chelsea game at the weekend. He has not been AWOL, he has not stayed longer than he should, his daughter has had a serious problem."

Article taken from: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... nd&cc=4716

[IndoCulé]

Why Manchester City Captain Carlos Tevez Is Roberto Mancini's Best Player - And His Biggest Problem

Argentine unhappy at Eastlands despite enjoying best form of his career

Carlos Tevez will lead his Manchester City team-mates out against Manchester United on Wednesday night to what will inevitably be a raucous welcome at the home of the “noisy neighbours”.

His will be the name most lustily cheered when the line-ups are read before kick-off and in the Argentine will the greatest hope be invested that United can be silenced at the ground where Paul Scholes pick-pocketed a last-minute equaliser in the final instalment of four explosive encounters last season.

Tevez is a bona fide sky blue hero and a trusted talisman for a team whose sum does not yet come close to matching its astronomically expensive parts.

Whatever else happens at Eastlands it can be guaranteed that Tevez will chase, harry and scrap for all he is worth and generally get in the faces of the team he represented for two seasons. He might even snatch a goal or two.

Yet the Argentine is a walking and, as far as English audiences are concerned, non-talking, contradiction.

The handsomely rewarded standard-bearer of the new Manchester City has, at various times this season, been at loggerheads with his manager, depressed, homesick and so tired of kicking a football that he has been minded to pack it all in for a quieter life.

Simultaneously, he is the first name on a team-sheet bristling with blue-chip names and is benefitting from the most prolific form of his career. Tevez has followed up his 29-goal debut campaign in the blue half of Manchester by scoring a further seven goals this season. One could be forgiven for thinking, what’s not to like?

Yet former West Ham assistant coach Keith Peacock, who worked with Tevez during his season at Upton Park that began so inconspicuously before ending in such memorable fashion, says it is unfair to castigate footballers for suffering the same problems that can afflict anyone.

“It is sometimes easy for people from afar to be confused that famous people – film stars, sportsmen – who have everything at their feet being depressed,” observed Peacock. “I don’t think depression stays away from people just because they are at a certain level. They are not immune to it. The thing about Carlos is he comes from another continent and that is the main issue.”

Planet football is a global village but even multi-millionaire footballers who can hop on a private jet with a swish of their credit card are not immune to the loneliness of being thousands of miles from their loved ones.

Tevez, who is separated from wife Vanessa, is struggling to cope because his two daughters Florencia, five, and eight-month-old Katie are in Argentina and his girlfriend Brenda Asnicar is an Argentine actress whose career does not dovetail with life in Cheshire’s footballers’ belt.

After five Christmases away from his home comforts, Tevez has complained to an Argentine journalist that he is tired, stressed and over-worked.

An uneasy relationship with his manager has not helped. “Tevez might be Mancini’s most trusted lieutenant once the white line is crossed but, off the pitch, he requires kid glove treatment,” explained a City source. “He is a good professional, he’s not a drinker or party animal, but he prefers to prepare his own way.

“Mancini demands a lot of his players and feels he could get more out of Tevez - another five or 10 per cent out - if he trained harder. Tevez would rather save himself for match day. They completely disagree and the tension is there for all to see.”

Tevez, who spoke to team-mates about leaving Eastlands over the summer, is unconvinced that Mancini is the best man to be spending Abu Dhabi’s millions. Their disagreements have centred over the intensity and frequency of Mancini’s training sessions and the Italian’s tactics, which the player views as unnecessarily cautious.

“The half-time argument during the Newcastle match was the one that got reported but there have been lots of disagreements,” added the source. “Mancini gave him the captaincy to try and smooth things over but it doesn’t seem to have worked.”

Nevertheless, there has been so give from the management side. The disciplinarian boss cut his skipper enough slack to allow him to return to Argentina last week to see his family and recover from a thigh injury.

So, is Tevez a stroppy, high-maintenance nuisance who requires his managers to treat him as a special case or is he still the boy from the Buenos Aires slum of Fuerte Apache who used his love of football as a crutch to escape the poverty of his upbringing?

Peacock, who worked with Tevez under the Alan Pardew and Alan Curbishley regimes, said the striker was not a moment’s bother at West Ham but there were obvious cultural issues.

“He did not speak the language,” said Peacock. “That was a difficulty for the management in terms of getting into the player. In training, there were never any problems that I can remember at all. There were certainly never any altercations.

“A Spanish interpreter was brought in during the early days to help him and [Javier] Mascherano settle in. They lived together in Canary Wharf to begin with before they got their own places.

“From the first moment I saw him his attitude was always very good. He was a tenacious but superbly talented little bull. He was such a vibrant player who never gives up and I am not surprised at all at the level he has reached. I would put him in the top four or five strikers in the world.”

Yet there is a feeling that Tevez’s career is simply a series of lucrative stop-offs at high-end clubs before he returns to his homeland. He rents an eco-mansion in Alderley Edge for £20,000-a-week and there is little sense of permanence to his nomadic existence.

The club’s Abu Dhabi owners want to make him the face of the club and reward him with an even more lavish contract but Mancini is believed to be more sanguine about the possibility of him moving on at the end of the season, possibly to Spain and Real Madrid, where Jose Mourinho is a huge admirer.

The influence of Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian cannot be underestimated, either. Another vast pay-day would seem attractive to the pair.

Whatever the ending to the Argentine's sky blue story, the player's on-field enthusiasm will be reciprocated by his supporters on derby day.

Article taken from: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/engla ... o-mancinis

[Emilfu]

Someone please explain this to me.

Fisting much?

[FCB-Rizla-TML]

LOL

[Smiler]

Tevez single handedly kept West Ham in the Premiership a few years back before having a couple of great seasons with Man Utd. For me, he's too similar in build and style (although not in the same class) to Messi.

I think what we are lacking is height up front, it seems to be our slight weakness this season.

[IndoCulé]

Tevez single handedly kept West Ham in the Premiership a few years back before having a couple of great seasons with Man Utd. For me, he's too similar in build and style (although not in the same class) to Messi.

I think what we are lacking is height up front, it seems to be our slight weakness this season.

Please don't remind me of Ibra.

[dee08fcb]

carlos tevez has handed in a transfer request

[matfcb]

I think he will go to Real Madrid- 55%
He will stay cause City doesn't need to sell him - 30%
He will go to Argentina club or retire- 10%
He will go to other European club than RM- 5%

[FCB-Rizla-TML]

i rlly hope he dont go to RM... i like tevez... he is underrated... and he seems like a humble guy

[IndoCulé]

He'll most likely head to RM as they are looking for strikers.

[marcel]

It's been rejected. The club will hope to ride this out until the end of the season.