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[juniormember]

Manchester City accept new bid from Corinthians for Carlos Tevez

Manchester City's manager, Roberto Mancini, has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Corinthians for the sale of Carlos Tevez.

City turned down a £40m bid from the Brazilian club last week, with City believed to be holding out for £50m for a player who finished as joint top scorer in the Barclays Premier League last season with 20 goals.

However, speaking on the club's pre-season tour of North America, Mancini said: "We have an agreement with Corinthians but Carlos now is still a City player."

The São Paulo club moved for the Argentina striker after being alerted by Tevez's admission earlier this month that he wished to leave City for the sake of his family, with his two children based in his homeland.

Andrés Sánchez, the Corinthians president, last week claimed Juventus had entered the race to sign Tevez but insisted his own club would not increase their offer for the wantaway South American.

Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian, revealed a few days ago that a deal with Corinthians was "close", with the player himself keen on a return to the club he previously represented between January 2005 and August 2006.

The 27-year-old, who joined City from Manchester United in summer 2009 and has also previously played for West Ham United, is under contract at City until June 2014.

Asked whether Tevez would now be discussing personal terms, Mancini replied: "I don't know this. I repeat, at the moment, Carlos is still a City player."

He added: "I want to wait. At the moment we are here, we are working with the other guys. We should think about this."

Defender Joleon Lescott admitted he would be disappointed to see his team-mate depart but understood his wishes.

The England international said: "We'll be disappointed if Carlos leaves but it was down to the club and Carlos what was best for each other and they have come to an agreement so I wish both parties all the best.

"Carlos is his own man. Last season he played to 110% every game so none of us will be holding any grudges towards him and we'll wish him all the best if he does leave."

 

[mark1975]

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[quote author=Hardcastle link=topic=46109.msg1365031#msg1365031 date=1310645197]
Tevez averages 1.5 goals per game?!

As fucking If, that must be a typo
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66 games, 43 goals for City.

And he works like hell on the pitch, and also creates goal scoring opportunities for others.
How do they replace him?
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they wont have to as he is going nowhere.
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Apart from Fabregas, are there any high profile players in the recent past that didn't eventually get their way once they'd made up their mind that they wanted to leave?
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Debatable but you could argue Rooney.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Fair pay to the fella, he is moving to south america. I was convinced he'd end up at real.

 

[Hansern]

Aguero to City then

 

[mark1975]

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Fair pay to the fella, he is moving to south america. I was convinced he'd end up at real.
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Hmmm.. I think he's got serious issues, but he IS putting his family first which is endearing I guess, I don't think we'd like it if we were his club though.

 

[FoxForceFive]

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[quote author=FoxForceFive link=topic=46109.msg1366612#msg1366612 date=1310979808]
Fair pay to the fella, he is moving to south america. I was convinced he'd end up at real.
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Hmmm.. I think he's got serious issues, but he IS putting his family first which is endearing I guess, I don't think we'd like it if we were his club though.
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Fuck no, I'd be fuming. However mascher said similar things then fucked off to Spain, at least tevez is being more truthful (though he did fuck Utd about in similar fashion).

What I can't help admire about the cunt is his attitude though, he may have wanted out but he worked his bollocks off every game.

 

[mark1975]

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What I can't help admire about the cunt is his attitude though, he may have wanted out but he worked his bollocks off every game.
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Yeah it was the same with Masher too, I don't think there's much doubting the work ethic of alot of South American players. Masher, Tevez, Lucas and Suarez being prime examples.

 

[spider-Neil]

kun wont have anything like the impact tevez has had (you'd hope)

 

[Rosco]

Is there no "new topic" button on this new upgraded software ?

 

[kingjulian]

Is that a rhetoric or a serious question?

 

[Rosco]

I was just wondering if there was a reason why a thread about forgetting what it's like to be in the Champions League has an article about Tevez going to Corinthians in it ...

 

[redsar]

Cause Corinthians will never play in the CL so Tevez will probably forget what it's like to be in it.

 

[juniormember]

Phew. Thanks for putting Rosco straight redstar.