SV Squares said:
I'm not sure what Rodney has to gain by making something like this up but if it's true it certainly ties in with what the club statement said about him being the highest paid footballer at the club.
Publicity? Rumour-mongering? Or even, more importantly, trying to consolidate the way that the club announcing that Tevez is on higher wages than Yaya blew the £220k/year story out of the water - therefore the media hacks have to invent a story that Tevez is on even higher wages so that they can keep raising the £220k number without people questioning it.
How would Tevez even get tax-free income? City paying it into an off-shore account? That's illegal, and there's no way City would pull that one. You can't circumvent the tax laws legally.
The club announcement made it clear that Tevez is in his second year of a five-year deal. That means his current wage scheme is the one agreed when he signed for us from the rags last year - i.e. it hasn't gone up since then. That means if Rodney Marsh's story is correct, Tevez has been on £286k/week since last June, or July, or whatever month it was exactly. Considering how people were moaning then about his high wages, do you really think that if Tevez were making that much then, the story really wouldn't have come out before? There's no way that that wage would take 18 months to break the headlines.
