City waiting for Tevez's decision

Mike Whalley

February 19, 2010

DECISION: Carlos Tevez

Manchester City are prepared to wait for Carlos Tevez - and will let the striker have the final say on whether he returns to face Liverpool.

The Blues will be without midfielder Patrick Vieira for the crucial clash after he accepted the FA's charge of violent conduct - he has been given a three-match ban - so boss Roberto Mancini would love to have his top scorer in the side on Sunday as the two major rivals for fourth spot go head-to-head at Eastlands.

Tevez has missed the Blues' last two matches after being allowed to return home to Buenos Aires to spend time with his new daughter Katie, who was born prematurely last weekend.

City have been in regular contact with the striker, with Mancini indicating he may return to Manchester today, however, he will let the player make the final decision.

Vieira, meanwhile, looks set to also miss the FA Cup replay at Stoke City as well as the Premier League trip to Chelsea a week on Sunday after deciding not to appeal against the FA charge for kicking Glenn Whelan in Tuesday's 1-1 draw at the Britannia Stadium.

Referee Alan Wiley spoke to Vieira at the time, but took no action.

However, after reviewing TV footage of the incident, Wiley reportedly informed the FA - who will rule on the punishment today - that he would have sent Vieira off if he had seen the challenge properly.

What do you think? Have your say.

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Blue Benny (19/02/2010 at 09:13)

Send a private plane and get himn back, he will be really up for it against the scoucers

Peter Doherty. As good as it gets! (Was it really 37 years?), Levenshulme (19/02/2010 at 09:14)

So the future of the club is dependent on the whim of a player? Jesus wept...

Evan Georgiou (19/02/2010 at 09:16)

If Carlito cannot make it then we respect this...after all he has played while injurred and played his heart out EVERY game.....
Without Tevez ,we must play ...
Given,Micah,Kompany,Lescott,Bridge,SWP,De Jong,Barry,Ireland,Bellers,Ade
Bench Taylor,Zab,Onuoha,Garido,Petrov,Johnson,RSC
I believe we can still win easily with this team....Forza Mancini CTID...from a cloudy CT.....

Raziola, Sport City (19/02/2010 at 09:30)

Can't understand this?? - Surely the club should just tell him to get back today and be ready for Sunday??

Blue Nose 123, Manchester (19/02/2010 at 09:31)

According to the daily mail, tevez has been advised by doctors to stay in Argentina until his baby daughter is stabalised, which will mean he will be out of the liverpool game and if the rumours are true about bellamy and mancini having a bust up, the possibility of him playing look very very slim

mr bump, badlands (19/02/2010 at 09:31)

one suspects tev wont make it.
midfield should take care of itself now PV not playing. hope VK is back but again i doubt it. need bellers and swp to get at them from the off.

nick wood (19/02/2010 at 09:45)

hope he comes back, especially if the sun is to be believed about bellers...........

Bertie McGrew , Northern Countryside (19/02/2010 at 09:49)

So Peter, Benny & Raziola - when your children were born, did you not all take time off work? Corse you did! His daughter was born prematurely and is presumably not particularly well, where would I be? Eastlands? - NFC - at home with my wife & child and so it should be - family is far more important than anything else.

We are the richest club in the worls with some highly paid professionals - we should be able to cope!

And if Bellers has had a row with Mancini - then Bellers will either apologise or move on, the player or the club?

I'm just like Stewie Griffin, Fictional Quahog, Rhode Island (19/02/2010 at 09:50)

All past frustrations at the manner with which you left us cast aside.

I sincerely hope your little one gets well soon Carlos and you can get back to proving us Reds wrong for the rest of the season.

From one United Supporter

Dave (19/02/2010 at 09:52)

I wish a lot of you would stop moaning about the affect this is going to have on the Liverpool game. Course I want us to win, and I want Tevez to play, but the poor guy is holding a bedside vigil at his daughters cot in intensive care. The doctors have told him to stay by her bedside until she improves. That tells me the diagnosis isn't good, and it would be grossly indecent of City to insist he leaves his critically ill daughters cot so he can play in one football match.

Rather than demand his return, my thoughts are with Tevez, his family and hopes that his daughter pulls through.

blueballs (19/02/2010 at 09:53)

It doesn't matter how much you get paid or how important your job is to 1000s of people, family should always come first. If Carlos's new baby daughter is in intensive care then I'd rather he was there supporting her and his family. Who's to say his mind would be fully on the game if he did return for sunday anyway.

chester bells (19/02/2010 at 09:53)

Some conflicting comments this morning; so who is right - the MEN or the Sun/Guardian/Mail etc ?

Lets hope he is back, and lets hope all these Bellamy/Mancini fallout stories arent true (lets also hope the "other" story that's been going around about Bellers is also not true).

Sunday's match IS huge - but if our performance is improved, then a draw would be a much better result for us than for them. For this reason I wonder if Mancini will maintain a defensive outlook (I hope not).

jerseyblue, jersey (19/02/2010 at 09:58)

I actually think the couple weeks off playing will have done Tevez good before the final third of the season, although I am sure the whole time has been incredibly stressful and draining. Hopefully he will return and fire us into the champions league for his family.

I wouldnt read much into the Bellamy issue. He was in papers at weekend with black eye and cut lip from fight outside nightclub. So he has row with mancini....who cares as long as he delivers on the pitch. How many professional footballers have had a row during training this week? A fair few I would suggest. The media is desperate for us not to succeed....it is not suprise that on a Friday before a big weekend game with our rival for 4th these stories appear targetting City.

Plain Speaking (19/02/2010 at 10:04)

We must respect his need to be with his family, it is a tough one but we just have to assume he wont be back.

STONEY Mancunia (19/02/2010 at 10:11)

Family is more important than football,but only just..If his nippers still poorly then hes every right to stay in Argentina..

MCFC LIFER M22.

christened in St Marks (19/02/2010 at 10:32)

His daughter is in intensive care Er!! now let me think should I go to work today, I'll bet I'm really up for it,me thinks we should direct our support where it is needed, some of you need to realise, what life is about

PhilB65, City Forever (19/02/2010 at 10:33)

Peter Doherty, it ain't dependent on the whim of a player, as you put it. It's up to the other players to perform.

Tevez's baby was born prematurely. He would be callous to leave the baby if she is not stablised. I have had experience of a baby that was not well after being born. I didn't want to go anywhere far away from her and her mum. So can you understand why Tevez might be reluctant to leave Buenos Aires?

mark jones (19/02/2010 at 10:56)

family comes first pal sort it out and we will see you when we see you ,good luck.

Peter Beagrie`s beagle (19/02/2010 at 11:02)

You can only feel for Carlos in this situation, but we are really going to miss him against Liverpool, and if the stories are true about Bellers (the jury is still out on that one, being a Sun report!) then we are going to struggle.

The most important thing is that we don`t lose the game, and my fear is that Mancini will play a defensive line up, without any forward fire power I fear the worst, hope I`m wrong. CTID

Blue Nose 123, Manchester (19/02/2010 at 11:02)

I agree with all the people who are saying that if tevez is told to stay in argentina then he should with his family as family is the most important thing in life well it is too me and i guess to the majority of the world it is too.

I really hope your little girl pulls through Carlos it must be a really stressful time, i know what its like sitting next to a babys incubater willing them to pull through, but if shes anything like you she will be a little fighter... Ill keep her in my prayers

Shaun, At My Desk (19/02/2010 at 11:15)

The abscence of Tevez wouldn't have hurt as much as it will,if one of our other striking options was doing the business.Presently none of them are and that includes the man in the tabloids,Bellamy.Everyone quite rightly goes on about the Red Scouse being a two man team,we're rapidly becoming a one man team,Tevez being our most consistent performer.This is a damninig indictment on the rest of our hugely expensive squad.

Sully47, Spain/England (19/02/2010 at 11:17)

Carlos I hope everything goes well for you and your family. Family must always come first.
City will miss you very much, but if you feel that you still need to be in Argentina you must stay.

Buena suerte para usted y su familia Carlos

Blue Jazzman, Marple (19/02/2010 at 11:24)

It is encouraging that most posters on here would encourage CT to stay with his child at this time

The Liverpool game is vital to us - but nothing is more important than family, particularly the health of a child

Our thoughts are with you Carlos

I would like to think that we are, and always have been, a caring club and the introdcution of mega money and the higher aspirations that have accrued should not alter that

What we need now is for the other members of the squiad to show their support for CT and their respect for us by turning in a performances - individual and collective - way above what has been the case for the last few matches

If Bellers is having a whinge, then that is nothing new

Ade, SwP and AJ up front being provided by Stevie I, with De Jong and Barry winning the ball and a back four of Richards, VK, Lescott and Bridge should, with their fingers out, do the job for us on Sunday

shoota, Manchester, England (19/02/2010 at 11:35)

what's his girlfriend doing still in Argentina anyway? ... Tevez et al want squillions per week, with minimal change in lifestyle for it .. even including still barely able to speak English, and his girlfriend permanently living back 'home', half-way across the world .. ridiculous

Andrew Shaw (19/02/2010 at 11:36)

Family first every time but if he thinks that things are improved enough back home that he can afford to be back here, he will play.

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