Carlos Tevez has no intention of going on strike in order to facilitate his departure from Man City, Kia Joorabchian has insisted.
Want-away City star will not refuse to play for club
Carlos Tevez has no intention of going on strike in order to facilitate his departure from Manchester City, Kia Joorabchian has insisted.
Joorabchian, Tevez's advisor, has reiterated that the Argentine ace is desperate to leave Eastlands.
But he has rubbished some suggestions that Tevez may refuse to play for City after his transfer request was rejected.
"I want to be clear that Carlos has never said he is not going to play or train or be professional. So those rumours are rubbish," Joorabchian stated in the
Daily Telegraph.
"He will play if picked and 100 per cent do his best. He feels that is important every time he puts on the shirt. He always gives 100 per cent.
"It's been said City will sue for a breach of his contract but on what grounds? All he's done is simply request a transfer.
"No-one is saying if Carlos leaves he should go for free. Everyone knows City have to be compensated.
"Of course we understand the fans aren't happy. Carlos is a big player, a very important one and they will be surprised by what's happened.
"They probably weren't aware of Carlos' feelings for the last six months and will be confused.
"Anyone who has met Carlos and got to know him realises he is no-one's puppet. Every big decision is made by him.
"He made his position clear when he wanted to leave United and he's doing the same now. He is very strong-minded.
"At this moment it isn't about him going to another club.
"Nothing has been set up for him to move despite people speculating. There's no club we've lined up to try and sign him.
"And if I was that keen on commissions I would have taken some when Cook joined City because he offered me one."
Broken promises
Joorabchian says Tevez has had promises broken by City, which are the reason behind him wanting to leave.
"They made him some promises, he made them some promises. In his view they didn't keep theirs and he kept his," he said.
"At the end of last season Carlos was very disappointed and upset after City didn't qualify for the Champions League.
"He'd seen things which had gone on in the season and he made his feelings known. He felt maybe the time had come for him to move on, but City wanted him to stay.
"Carlos believes that he had certain promises and personal assurances made to him, which had nothing to do with money and he was let down.
"When Carlos first signed for Manchester City there was a reason why he signed. He saw the vision of the owner and the way the club wanted to go.
"The chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak spoke to Carlos in August and made it clear they didn't want to lose him.
"There were issues Carlos raised and it was requested that if he stayed calm until after the transfer window. The specific details can't be revealed because we are bound by confidentiality. But City know those issues weren't about money.
"Their offer would have made Carlos easily the highest-paid Premier League player."
Joorabchian insisted that he was the one who persuaded Tevez not to leave in the summer, saying: "In the summer he wanted to leave.
"I then spent most of my summer travelling all around the world talking to the chairman of Manchester City and to Carlos in order to try and convince him that we should try to find an agreement that would allow us and help us to go to the next phase.
"He would then not feel like he wanted to leave. I think I managed to successfully convince Carlos to speak to the chairman and let the two of them find a harmonious way to get this back on track.
"I'm surprised at the club's reaction because they were fully aware of the situation and how I was helping. The two of them spoke and they spoke with the rest of the management.
"The chairman asked Carlos to stay and the management agreed that he had certain issues that he wanted dealt with. They wanted to wait until 1st September to address the issues he had because they wanted to concentrate on the transfer window.
"Through September, Carlos again began to get disillusioned because his viewpoint was it was not happening. His view was that they had agreed and spoke and promises were made to him and now the window was closed these issues were not being resolved.
"Carlos wanted to leave, I went to speak to them and they said there would be a new contract, new clauses in the contract etc.
"They sent the proposal, we countered one time and then we said 'you know what, Carlos doesn't want it, thank you very much, no'."
Tactic
Joorabchian also insists that Tevez's transfer request, which was officially turned down by City earlier this week, was not a tactic being used to get a new contract.
"I'm absolutely confident that the emails will show we acted in a correct manner at all times," Joorabchian said.
"I feel absolutely confident that if everyone is happy to make that public we have not done anything unprofessional or behaved in anything other than a correct manner.
"Carlos has been very clear that this was his decision and he has not been influenced by anyone else.
"The people who work for the club should be thinking 'there is a problem here, how do we find a solution to this problem' rather than fuelling the fire."
Tevez and Joorabchian's relationship with City chief executive Garry Cook has also been called into question.
"For anyone to think that either me or Garry Cook are bigger than the story of the club is ridiculous. I don't think I am important enough or he is important enough," he continued.
"I introduced them and in fact I acted as his agent and increased his salary more than four times what he was earning in the States. He even offered me a commission, which I turned down.
"I'm not an agent so I don't act as an agent. You can see evidence that Manchester City invited me to help them so to suggest anything else is wrong.
"Garry was not involved in the Carlos Tevez transfer at all and I think maybe through that and other issues the whole concept of the job took him by surprise. He just thought 'oh my God, this is brilliant I'm in charge of this club'.
"I definitely don't see this as about me and Garry Cook. Carlos is his own man and has his own strong opinions and to suggest that this is about me and Garry Cook is a joke. Carlos' issues with the club have nothing to do with my relationship with Garry. My relationship with him has been like it is for two years, it didn't start yesterday."
Joorabchian hopes a conclusion can soon be reached, adding: "Right now Carlos has made his point very clearly that he has issues.
"At a certain time the club and Carlos will have to sit down and try and find an amicable solution here. It's much more constructive for people like Garry and myself to work to find solutions rather than any ideas that we are trying to influence.
"Everybody is being hurt by this right now."
