brian the blue said:On the pitch he was great.
Off it he was a tool.
As soon as I left COMS after the 3-0 Stoke game at the end of the season I knew he was gone.
The problem is finding a buyer, i'll be seriously annoyed if we sell him on the cheap for 30/35 million. We should stick to our guns on 50mil and if no one wants to pay or no one can offer us a good swap then he should be forced to stay.
But what in all honesty would that achieve - yes it would proove a point, but it would be cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Let's say we turn down an offer of £30 million and force him to stay.
Kia instructs him to consistently cause trouble and refuse to play (making the club a circus and the focus always being on Tevez). We drop him to the reserves costing us a cool £10 million a year.
So if we leave him to rot in the reserves (as some of you want) it will cost us about £60 million pounds, and Kia would make the club a circus.
Sell him for anything above 30 million. If this was Modric or a player of that a ilk I would say yes hold out but this is the most disruptive player in football being advised by Kia.