Matt the Giant said:
As many posters above I really want to see an end to this farce. It's not good for the public image of Man City and can't exactly be called ideal for the squad chemistry.
Just wondering: If a player refuses to warm up according to the manager's instructions... isn't he thereby refusing to play? What's the difference really? A manager can't field a non-warmed up player due to injury risks and so on.
-- Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:41 am --
Longsight-memories said:
Just thought EVERY MANCHESTER CITY FAN should sue Tevez ..(the club do it on the fans behalf).wonder how much that would cost him..plus if we go out of the CL the club sue him...for loss of income nasty very nasty...Kia..
I wonder if this isn't in fact possible: Last December he went on camera saying how happy he was in Manchester and that he would stay. A lot of people went out to buy shirts with his name on it (including me) after having seen that video. Days later he throws in a public transfer request.
I felt very cheated, and I'm sure so did many others.
It is a very simple process to sue somebody for a small claim, and as your claim will be for less than £5000, no legal costs should be awarded against you. You can do it all online too.
Perhaps best to wait to see if he sues Mancini/the club, then, you can issue proceedings - thousands who bought shirts or went to Munich could do so - and try to argue that he caused your money to be wasted. The bad news is that your claim would almost certainly fail due to the law of contract :-( BUT, you can still try - people pursue weak claims all the time, and the court would be obliged to merge all the small claims with the larger one by Tevez.
It would cost you a court fee of about £100. Money well spent, to cause him and his lawyers extra aggro? There is an outside chance that he could apply for costs against you if he won, but, if there were hundreds of you, those costs would be spread out between you, and its a low risk that he would be able to win and get costs in a small claim anyway - the general rule is that no legal costs are recoverable.
Bit of free CONFIDENTIAL advice for you only Longsight OK :-) I'll let you or someone else start the petition - I'm not interested. There are 2 firms in Manchester who used to be in with City - Horwich Farelly - Michael Horwich was a director for many years - and Donn and Co - Michael Donn was also a director. Maybe someone there will be sympathetic when the time is right for you.
PS I don't think Tevez has grounds to sue for dafamation, and definitely not unless his appeal against the disciplinary measures is successful. It's probably just more hot air from Kia and Co, who are still floundering till January. Kia must want some sort of working relationship with City, so I would be surprised if it comes to proceedings, but, it's a funny old game - the law, not just football. Arguably the threat alone of proceedings against a club employee by Tevez puts him in further breach of contract again. On and on it goes, so lets hope it's good riddance to bad rubbish soon. Great shame though, and really all quite pathetic. And people can say it all reflects badly on the club, but I disagree - they have no option than to dot every i and cross every t. Painfully slow, but necessary.
