Carlos Tevez is fed up with Manchester United and will
not return next season
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• Argentinian is upset by Ferguson’s team selections
• Manchester City offer 75% pay increase
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Carlos Tevez has informed Sir Alex Ferguson that he has
no plans to return to Manchester United despite the club’s renewed
efforts to persuade him to reject Manchester City’s
overtures.
Ferguson has interrupted his holiday in the south of France
several times over the past two weeks to ring Tevez and appeal to
him to think carefully about the consequences of leaving a club of
United’s standing, but the Argentinian has now told the manager
that he planned to sever his ties with the Premier League
champions.
That is unlikely to prevent Ferguson trying to persuade him from
changing his mind before the striker officially becomes a free
agent on 30 June, but United’s management are realistic about the
situation and increasingly fear that Tevez will soon confirm he is
following Cristiano Ronaldo out of the club.
City have offered Tevez a 75% pay rise, meaning a
£140,000-a-week salary, and the chance to re-establish himself as a
first-choice player, whereas, tellingly, in all the various
discussions with Ferguson there has been no indication from the
managerTevez can expect to play in more of United’s key games this
season.
Tevez’s main grievance is the frequency with which he was left
out of United’s bigger matches last season and he has come to feel
disenchanted because of the way the club’s chief executive, David
Gill, has handled his proposed signing, repeatedly postponing
talks before publicly stating that he thought Tevez was
over-priced. That has left the way clear for City to capitalise
and, unless Ferguson can convince Tevez otherwise,the Abu
Dhabi-owned club confidently expect to pull off one of their
biggest transfer coups of modern times despite Liverpool also
maintaining their own interest in Tevez.
City have the advantage because they can afford to pay Tevez the
higher salary and have informed the consortium that owns the
player’s economic rights they will pay the £25.5m fee in one sum
whereas Liverpool’s proposal is to drag it out with instalments
over the course of his contract.
Tevez is also aware that moving to Anfield would irreparably
tarnish his standing among those United supporters who have been
campaigning for him to stay at Old Trafford. The player is
described as “tribal” and is aware of the intense rivalry between
United and Liverpool but, in his mind, he does not believe it would
cause so much bad feeling if he went to City.
