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Mancini set to hold talks with Tevez
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December 17, 2010, Friday
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MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini will hold talks with unsettled striker Carlos Tevez today and he hopes the Argentine would stay at the club despite handing in a transfer request.
The 26-year-old City captain has not travelled with the team to play Juventus in the Europa League but has been training with the rest of the squad not required in Italy.
"I haven't spoken to him yet. He is our player and I hope he continues to play for us and score for us," Mancini told a televised news conference on Wednesday. "I will speak with him on Friday."
City has already qualified for the knockout phase of the Europa League and is third in the Premier League with Tevez instrumental in its progress this season.
"I am disappointed because we are in a good moment and in a good position in the table and our focus must be on this," Mancini said.
"I want to speak to him.
"Carlos has three-and-a-half years left on his contract."
Tevez said at the weekend that his relationship with some of the executives at the club was "beyond repair" but reacted angrily to suggestions that he was angling for a more lucrative contract - instead suggesting that promises made to him by the club had not been honoured.
His adviser Kia Joorabchian said Tevez, who signed from Manchester United in 2009 for 26 million pounds (US$40.73 million), had become disillusioned at the club after its failure to qualify for the Champions League last season.
"There was a reason why he signed for the club. He saw the vision of the owner," Joorabchian told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"He decided he would sign for the club, play one year outside the Champions League and, hopefully, take this club into the next phase. ... Carlos was bitterly disappointed because they did not qualify for the Champions League."
The 26-year-old City captain has not travelled with the team to play Juventus in the Europa League but has been training with the rest of the squad not required in Italy.
"I haven't spoken to him yet. He is our player and I hope he continues to play for us and score for us," Mancini told a televised news conference on Wednesday. "I will speak with him on Friday."
City has already qualified for the knockout phase of the Europa League and is third in the Premier League with Tevez instrumental in its progress this season.
"I am disappointed because we are in a good moment and in a good position in the table and our focus must be on this," Mancini said.
"I want to speak to him.
"Carlos has three-and-a-half years left on his contract."
Tevez said at the weekend that his relationship with some of the executives at the club was "beyond repair" but reacted angrily to suggestions that he was angling for a more lucrative contract - instead suggesting that promises made to him by the club had not been honoured.
His adviser Kia Joorabchian said Tevez, who signed from Manchester United in 2009 for 26 million pounds (US$40.73 million), had become disillusioned at the club after its failure to qualify for the Champions League last season.
"There was a reason why he signed for the club. He saw the vision of the owner," Joorabchian told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"He decided he would sign for the club, play one year outside the Champions League and, hopefully, take this club into the next phase. ... Carlos was bitterly disappointed because they did not qualify for the Champions League."
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