Carlos Tevez Hands In Transfer Request To Manchester City
Tevez Wants To Be Closer To Family; Relationship With Mancini Breaks Down
Carlos Tevez has handed in a formal transfer request to Manchester City. The Argentine international wants to return to his homeland to play for Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires and to be with his family. Tevez’s wife and daughters live in Argentina.
City are believed to have turned down the request and are willing to give him a pay rise of over £100,000 a week.
The Sunday Mirror reports – bizarrely – that Real Madrid are at the front of the queue for his services, though that rather contradicts the point of the story.
Tevez recently signed a two-year rental agreement on a house in Cheshire and is two years into a five-year deal worth £140,000 a week. But the paper reports that Tevez is not commercially driven and would soon retire from the game completely to spend more time with his family.
Tevez reacted angrily to being substituted in last week’s victory over Bolton and spent the week making his peace with manager Roberto Mancini but it is reported that he has now put in a formal transfer request in the hope of returning to Argentina.
Tevez has played abroad for the past six years but became disillusioned following the premature birth of his daughter Katia last February. His family have remained in Argentina while he plays in England but he has become increasingly frustrated with life at City under Mancini and there are reports that he now longs to play for the club he supported as a boy.
He has apparently told friends he will work hard for City while he remains at the club but that his future lies away from Eastlands. There are also suggestions that he could retire from the game completely.
It remains to be seen whether the prime motivation for his transfer request is a desire to be closer to his family in Argentina or that the breakdown of his relationship with Mancini has led him to want to move away from City.
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