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How long will Carlos Tévez truce hold?
Carlos Tévez's surprise decision to withdraw his transfer request at Manchester City marks an uneasy truce.
Leadership qualities: Carlos Tevez retained the captaincy after his dispute with Manchester City Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Jason Burt 7:00AM GMT 24 Dec 2010
The fractures were there, although manager Roberto Mancini has gone some way to repairing his relationship with the volatile striker. Mancinis judgment has been skilled.
But there is no guarantee that Tévez will stay beyond the end of this season. A solution has been found, but for how long? The big, unanswered question is what will happen next summer.
There are clues in the statement released by City on Monday that the situation has not been resolved. The use of the phrase clear-the-air shows that Tévez did not believe he had been listened to. He is understood to have outlined these grievances in a letter to chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak.
Crucially, City also point out that during this meeting Tévez expressed his absolute commitment, with the player insisting all along that he had no intention of not giving 100 per cent or of going on strike, as some had claimed he might.
But the most important phrase of all for Tévez believed to be at his insistence is that his contract remains unchanged. He will feel this vindicates his claim that it was not about money or a desire to gain a better contract which City had claimed and continue to suggest.
The club claimed his representative, Kia Joorabchian, wanted to engineer a new deal but Tévez had, in fact, turned down a seven-figure bonus and broken off negotiations over an improved contract after he threatened to leave last summer. City dont deny this.
But perhaps the most crucial piece of evidence was left out of the statement on Sunday Tévez met Khaldoon and Mancini but not chief executive Garry Cook who was only involved later in a discussion over whether the Argentine should retain the captaincy. Tévez did keep it apparently against the wishes of Cook, whose relationship with the player remains frosty.
Almeidas pricey agent
With nine goals in 13 Bundesliga matches, Hugo Almeida has been in fine form. Aged 26, the Portuguese international is also in dispute with his club, Werder Bremen, in the final year of his contract. The two sides are said, by Bremens general manager Klaus Allofs, to be miles apart in what the player wants in wages and what the club can afford. So he will leave either in January or next summer.
Chelsea have been offered the striker, but are unsure, while when another Premier League club inquired about Almeida there was shock, if not surprise, as to what he was after: £2.1 million net of tax a year or £40,00 a week plus , the club were told, a one-off payment of £2.1 million to his agent, Jorge Mendes, to negotiate the deal.
Little wonder Mendes, who also represents Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo, is one of Europes most successful and best paid dealmakers especially as the Turkish club, Besiktas, have now agreed to those eye-popping terms.
Rafas top comeback
Merseyside while his severance terms from Inter Milan were finalised, there have been suggestions in some quarters that he might return as Liverpool manager. Which seems astonishing, given the way in which his regime crumbled. But then he was the architect of the 'Miracle of Istanbul, in 2005, winning the Champions League against AC Milan.
It was all the more miraculous because Benítez ignored all coaching logical with the half-time substitution of Dietmar Hamann for Steve Finnan. It certainly threw Carlo Ancelotti, then Milans coach, who understandably expected Benítez to bring on striker Djibril Cissé with his side 3-0 down.
Given Benitezs cautious nature, it appeared to be an exercise in damage limitation rather than an attempt to win the game. Maybe it was. No one will know. But it certainly confused the Italians.
How long will Carlos Tévez truce hold?
Carlos Tévez's surprise decision to withdraw his transfer request at Manchester City marks an uneasy truce.
By Jason Burt 7:00AM GMT 24 Dec 2010
The fractures were there, although manager Roberto Mancini has gone some way to repairing his relationship with the volatile striker. Mancinis judgment has been skilled.
But there is no guarantee that Tévez will stay beyond the end of this season. A solution has been found, but for how long? The big, unanswered question is what will happen next summer.
There are clues in the statement released by City on Monday that the situation has not been resolved. The use of the phrase clear-the-air shows that Tévez did not believe he had been listened to. He is understood to have outlined these grievances in a letter to chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak.
Crucially, City also point out that during this meeting Tévez expressed his absolute commitment, with the player insisting all along that he had no intention of not giving 100 per cent or of going on strike, as some had claimed he might.
But the most important phrase of all for Tévez believed to be at his insistence is that his contract remains unchanged. He will feel this vindicates his claim that it was not about money or a desire to gain a better contract which City had claimed and continue to suggest.
The club claimed his representative, Kia Joorabchian, wanted to engineer a new deal but Tévez had, in fact, turned down a seven-figure bonus and broken off negotiations over an improved contract after he threatened to leave last summer. City dont deny this.
But perhaps the most crucial piece of evidence was left out of the statement on Sunday Tévez met Khaldoon and Mancini but not chief executive Garry Cook who was only involved later in a discussion over whether the Argentine should retain the captaincy. Tévez did keep it apparently against the wishes of Cook, whose relationship with the player remains frosty.
Almeidas pricey agent
With nine goals in 13 Bundesliga matches, Hugo Almeida has been in fine form. Aged 26, the Portuguese international is also in dispute with his club, Werder Bremen, in the final year of his contract. The two sides are said, by Bremens general manager Klaus Allofs, to be miles apart in what the player wants in wages and what the club can afford. So he will leave either in January or next summer.
Chelsea have been offered the striker, but are unsure, while when another Premier League club inquired about Almeida there was shock, if not surprise, as to what he was after: £2.1 million net of tax a year or £40,00 a week plus , the club were told, a one-off payment of £2.1 million to his agent, Jorge Mendes, to negotiate the deal.
Little wonder Mendes, who also represents Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo, is one of Europes most successful and best paid dealmakers especially as the Turkish club, Besiktas, have now agreed to those eye-popping terms.
Rafas top comeback
Merseyside while his severance terms from Inter Milan were finalised, there have been suggestions in some quarters that he might return as Liverpool manager. Which seems astonishing, given the way in which his regime crumbled. But then he was the architect of the 'Miracle of Istanbul, in 2005, winning the Champions League against AC Milan.
It was all the more miraculous because Benítez ignored all coaching logical with the half-time substitution of Dietmar Hamann for Steve Finnan. It certainly threw Carlo Ancelotti, then Milans coach, who understandably expected Benítez to bring on striker Djibril Cissé with his side 3-0 down.
Given Benitezs cautious nature, it appeared to be an exercise in damage limitation rather than an attempt to win the game. Maybe it was. No one will know. But it certainly confused the Italians.
