That Old Tevez Saga

Ever since Carlos Tevez arrived onto the Premiership scene in that West Ham shirt, there has been nothing but controversy surrounding him. It all started with a goal against Manchester United to keep the Hammers in Premiership at Sheffield United's expense. Then there was the battle of Tevez's legality surrounding his agent Kia Joorabchian which Neil Warnock still resents to this day. Tevez then moved onto Manchester United and received a warm welcome from the United fans. Unfortunately the welcome wasn't so warm from Alex Ferguson and Tevez was shown the door after he discussed his discontent at not being handed a new contract and having Berbatov picked ahead of him.

Despite a last minute attempt to keep Tevez, the Argentine perhaps partially spitefully, partially financially or maybe for another reason, he moved across the city to Manchester City. That sparked the infamous Welcome To Manchester sign which got Alex Ferguson's back up and the Manchester rivalry kicked up a notch. But Tevez soon realised that the grass isn't always greener and this summer was surrounded in a huge transfer saga. Tevez has quite clearly expressed his want to move away from England, supposedly back home, and the love-hate relationship between Tevez and the board saw Man City try desperately hard to palm him off to Inter Milan in an exchange deal for Sneijder. That fell through as Inter didn't have the financial funds to make the deal. The there was the last minute drama of Brazilian giants Corinthians coming in with a big bid, City looked to have partially accepted although wanting a little bit more and Tevez was more than happy. But the transfer window in South America shut and the deal fell through.

With Tevez seemingly staying put and a truce in order, he played in a City shirt earlier this season. Things were looking civil between the two parties until Tuesday night when Tevez refused to play against Bayern Munich. This lead to Mancini exclaiming that Tevez would never be picked to play again and Tevez has since been suspended by City for two weeks. This has lead to the question, what is going to happen next? There has been suggestions that City should just terminate his contract, but because of the huge financial climate surrounding the game, that won't happen. The best result for the fans, although they do admire him on the pitch, will be for Tevez to publicly apologise to them for his antics and for City to get rid of him as soon as the January window opens. Hopefully Corinthians will come back in and the saga can be completed and the City fans can be finally certain of the outcome of their former captain and move on. But it's going to be a long three months with yet more flashpoints to come I'm sure.