Tevez offered olive branch by Mancini
Reuters - Wednesday 02 November 2011, 01:38
Manchester City outcast Carlos
Tevez has been offered a way back into the Premier League club's
plans by manager Roberto Mancini but only if he apologises for
refusing to warm up in their Champions League match at Bayern
Munich in late September.
British media quoted Mancini telling reporters at Valencia
airport on Tuesday on the way to their Champions League game at
Villarreal that the Argentina striker needed to say sorry for
refusing to take instructions during their 2-0 away defeat.
"Sorry is a little word, an easy word," Wednesday's Guardian
newspaper reported Mancini as saying. "Everything depends on
Carlos. But I think these are easy words - very, very easy.
"If he apologises then everything will be like before. If
not, then we look at [selling him in] January. This is what I've
told him: all of us can make a mistake.
"The important thing is to apologise and then it's finished.
And he can finish it. It is easy. These are crucial words. But
these are easy words."
Mancini added this was the reason he had invited Tevez to
his house after the Argentine's two-week suspension.
"But this was 20 days ago. It wasn't yesterday. I told
Carlos 20 days ago to apologise, and he said no. I don't know
his agent [Kia Joorabchian] but I think the people around Carlos
are giving him bad advice."
Reflecting on his own career as a player, which involved
some controversial moments, Mancini said: "Every time I made a
mistake, I apologised, It's a very easy word to say."
Asked if Tevez, who has been fined two weeks' wages by the
club, would play for City again if he said sorry, Mancini
replied: "We'll see. He needs to do it first."