Out in the cold: Carlos Tevez has been frozen out by
Manchester City
Manchester City have
agreed a £21million deal to sell Carlos Tevez to Paris Saint-Germain. And
that will spark a new war with Tevez, who wants to join Italian
giants AC Milan.
City owner Sheik Mansour is
understood to have a close relationship with the Qatari
owners of the French club.
And Roberto Mancini, City’s
manager, is in no mood to accommodate the wishes of Tevez, who
is currently in Argentina, allegedly without the club’s
permission.
Sheik Mansour has always
backed Mancini in the battle of wills between player and coach,
which exploded in the infamous incident at Bayern Munich when Tevez
appeared to refuse orders from Mancini to warm up for action when
losing a Champions League tie.
AC Milan want to take the
27-year-old on loan in January, with a view to their own £21m deal
in the summer. But City, who paid Manchester United £32m for the
striker in July 2009, are adamant that they require a straight cash
deal, with any provisional loan out of the question.
In a hole: Carols Tevez has spent more time playing
golf than football recently
Listen up: City want Carlos Tevez to agree a move to
PSG
Juventus, run by the Agnelli
family of Fiat fame, have in the past 48 hours expressed interest
in buying Tevez outright. But that prompted the Parisians to press
their own claims.
Now Tevez is likely to react
angrily to the latest twist in his troubled career, arguing that he
cannot be forced to join any club against his wishes. But if that
leaves him out in the cold, playing no football, then City are said
to be only too happy to oblige.
The club hope that, given the
choice of a new chance of competitive football and a new start at a
rich European club, as opposed to the humiliating prospect of
further training alone in Manchester, Tevez will comply with City’s
wishes and move to Paris.
