bluemoondays
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Potentially 2 1/2 years IF he doesn't want to play football and just bank his basic wages with no bonuses, image rights etc. That's still going to cost us, I'd guess, £150k/week so £15m (maybe up to £20m) for 2 years (from summer).MadchesterCity said:mancity1 said:He doesn't want to play in England at club level again.
I doubt he wants to play anywhere again for that matter.
A golf career in the equivalent of five grades below Argentina's Nationwide tour beckons ( in between any bit of skirt he gets of course ).
this is a real concern, how long can Tevez milk it for if he doesn't leave?
Due to his age he can buy out his contract in summer, but that would cost him circa £15-£20m for 2 years wages (see above), there is an unwritten rule that top clubs will never go for a player that does this. You can guarantee the italian sides would break it........ That would be almost like getting a transfer fee for him as far as City is concerned, a bit less maybe.
He won't be able to terminate his contract for "just cause" as he has a) already played some games and b) made himself unavailable for a large portion of this season. The earliest he could walk on a free, assuming we don't play him and he terminates for "just cause", would be summer 2013.
The problem for Tevez is we can hold him here until 2013, his wages don't count to FFPR and (I think) we could write off his value in the books for FFPR so it just comes down to cash and the Sheikh has oilwells full of it. His cost would only affect the "real" books, not the made-up piece of shit that is FFPR.
I think Tevez is genuinely worried about not being able to play competitive football for nearly 2 years. Strikers are in their prime at his age (27) and he could spend 2 years never playing, taking into account he hasn't played since September. By the time he comes out of it he will be 29 (with his 30th birthday in that season) and on the downward slope in terms of earnings and especially because clubs will take the piss by offering him peanuts due to not having played competitive football for 2 years.
Regardless of all the shit happening I believe Tevez does want to play football. He just wants to screw over whichever club he happens to be at for the most cash and engineer transfers for big signing on bonuses, even if it means doing what he's done at City and he has lots of previous for it.......