MCFC BOB
Well-Known Member
The last time Tevez claimed he wanted to leave, I eagerly awaited every news bulletin on 5live to see whether he'd changed his mind.
Now, I'm finding it difficult to be shocked about it. We've heard it all before numerous times: 'I miss my kids', 'I don't like Manchester', 'Garry Cook hates me', 'I'm being persecuted by the men at the top of City', 'I love the fans and I tried my best' - he's turning into a broken record.
Tevez is a fantastic player, and we've had him at his peak. But it's time to move on. City and Tevez reminds me of a marriage with great sex, but no communication. It has to end. City and Tevez are becoming football fuck buddies, actually, and I'm not - I'm not going to speak for anyone else - prepared to hold on to a player that has been so vocal about his wish to leave.
If he wants to go, then he wants to go.
Mancini said he wanted a new striker anyway, and if he manages to sign Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri to fill a hole in the midfield, I'll be very pleased.
Yes, next season there will be people saying 'we need Tevez back. We can't draw at home to Swansea. We wouldn't have drawn at home if Tevez had taken the game by the neck like he did while he was here', but there'd be no use in that.
This will be a tearful farewell - it really will - but it's a tearful farewell that has to happen. There's no use City bending over backwards for Tevez if he's going to continue this soap opera for the rest of his time here.
Good luck to him wherever he ends up.
Now, I'm finding it difficult to be shocked about it. We've heard it all before numerous times: 'I miss my kids', 'I don't like Manchester', 'Garry Cook hates me', 'I'm being persecuted by the men at the top of City', 'I love the fans and I tried my best' - he's turning into a broken record.
Tevez is a fantastic player, and we've had him at his peak. But it's time to move on. City and Tevez reminds me of a marriage with great sex, but no communication. It has to end. City and Tevez are becoming football fuck buddies, actually, and I'm not - I'm not going to speak for anyone else - prepared to hold on to a player that has been so vocal about his wish to leave.
If he wants to go, then he wants to go.
Mancini said he wanted a new striker anyway, and if he manages to sign Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri to fill a hole in the midfield, I'll be very pleased.
Yes, next season there will be people saying 'we need Tevez back. We can't draw at home to Swansea. We wouldn't have drawn at home if Tevez had taken the game by the neck like he did while he was here', but there'd be no use in that.
This will be a tearful farewell - it really will - but it's a tearful farewell that has to happen. There's no use City bending over backwards for Tevez if he's going to continue this soap opera for the rest of his time here.
Good luck to him wherever he ends up.