Is it another grand stickup?

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City claim that Tevez's outrageous financial demands of £300,000-a-week are behind the rift between the player and club officials.
Full story: the Times (subscription only)
Striker Tevez is furious with City for portraying him as a money-grabbing mercenary in the wake of his transfer request. The Argentine has apparently turned down a one-off payment of £2.5m to stay at Eastlands.
Full story: Daily Star
"This is not about money," Tevez is understood to have told Manchester City in an email when the club offered him the chance not just to renegotiate his contract but collect a substantial one-off bonus, thought to be about £5m.

[Gamma]

ah bwoy .... tevez' arrival on the scene had as it's core $$$$$ ... i had NEVER before heard of an agent or an individual or in fact any entity that was not a club..owning the rights to a football player....

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We set the trend...

[Lazie]

Tevez wanted to quit last summer


When Carlos Tevez sat down for discussions over his future way back toward the end of the summer, it was clear then that the Argentinean superstar was hankering for a move away from Manchester City.
GettyImagesCarlos Tevez's relationship with Manchester City and their fans is likely to be over


Matters have deteriorated since then both on and off the field, and now the recriminations are rising to the surface and manifesting themselves in allegations of "broken promises" of a rejected one-season wonder bonus, and failure to finalise an extension to a new contract.

ESPNsoccernet has heard a full account of Tevez's unrest, anger and resentment that has now boiled over to the surface, making any possibility of his remaining at Eastlands unfeasible. Then again, the same was said about Wayne Rooney and within days Sir Alex Ferguson was posing for a picture with a player who had just signed a whacking new contract.

Could that happen across the Manchester divide to an equally important player for the club?

Rooney was outspoken about his reasons for wanting to quit Old Trafford, but it took a cagey old campaigner like Sir Alex to smooth over those troubled waters. It is highly doubtful that anyone at City can do the same with Tevez. In fact, the wounds run much deeper than discussing a new contract, and concerns over the transfer policy of the owners.

At City, it is not so much the ability to buy new stars, but a growing list of players queueing up to leave.

Tevez doesn't care for the ambience at City, dislikes the way the club is run, and is not afraid to voice those concerns, which will swiftly make his tenure at the club untenable.

To listen to my source explain the thought-process of Tevez's momentous decision left me with no doubt about the strength of feeling of the player's desire to quit the club. And the reasons are far too complex to pin it down to one reason.

Here is the explanation: "Let's make it clear that at the end of the summer Carlos Tevez wanted to leave the club, and he had made that clear to the senior management team at the club. But the player's representatives and the board at City together convinced him to give it a go and see if there was a means of making him change his mind and stay.

"They told him, 'you are our warrior, the most important player at the club, and we want you to stay a long time'. However, Tevez was made a lot of promises, and they have not been forthcoming, and there has been a strong disagreement with the senior management of the club.

"There was talk of a new contract, but to offer him more money, it would have to come with an extension to that contract. Negotiations went on, they made an offer, there was a counter offer, and then it went cold.

"But the club made a very generous offer of a bonus for this season, just for the one season. It was a huge number. But Carlos said no. He did not want to take the money. It was almost like hush money, to prevent him talking publicly about the problems behind the scenes, and he felt he could not do that.

"The club wanted to continue to re-negotiate his contract but he turned it down, and told the club more recently that he could no longer carry on."

GettyImagesCarlos Tevez's preference is Italy or Spain - and definitely not Manchester


The reasons are varied. My source continued: "His family are in Argentina, a three-year-old and a newly-born. He has had his problems with the senior management and also the manager Robert Mancini, although his relationship with his manager is not irreparable.

"He is in a foreign county and not happy at his work. So, to commit to the next five years he has to make a lot of personal sacrifice, but if you are not happy where you work, if you're miserable at work, and you are missing your family at the same time, it becomes more understandable why he wants to leave.

"He has now put in a transfer request, the club have turned it down, and he is now making a statement, and will have to think very carefully about what he does next. Would he play again for the club? Yes, if they want him to, why not?

"Would he move to Italy or Spain? Yes, he would, he is just not happy where he is. He is also a strong character and he resents the insinuation that he was manipulated into this decision by his advisors. This is his decision alone. He is insulted by the allegation that others manipulated him into it. This is his personal decision.

"Would he walk away from the game, if he is forced to stay at City? Yes, he might. It cannot be ruled out."

[Lazie]

Mi curious, which Man City fan tatooed Tevez pon dem body?

[Gamma]

i believe that such an arrangement is now impossible in football...

[Bricktop]

We set the trend dat nobody can follow

[Gamma]

true dat!

[Bricktop]

I hope yuh don't forget your RBSC password come 5pm