The
new Coach of Chinese club, Shanghai Shenhua, says Carlos Tevez is overweight
and will not play again for the club until he gets fit.
Tevez,
33, is one of the best-paid players in the world, on reported weekly wages of
about 730,000 euros (US$870,000) but has scored just twice this season and
missed half the games with injury.
The
former Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus player recently returned
to China from a two-week break in Argentina to seek treatment for a leg-muscle
injury.
The
Argentine has hinted that he will quit China at the end of the season in
November and has been branded “very homesick boy” by angry Shenhua fans and
Chinese media.
He
was jeered when he came on as a substitute last weekend in a 2-1 home defeat,
and Wu Jingui, who took over after Gus Poyet quit as coach on Monday, is taking
a hardline stance.
Jingui
said in an interview with the Shanghai Morning Post “I had a talk with him
today about tactics, but I won’t let him play for now, he isn’t physically
ready,”
“Both
him and (Colombian Fredy) Guarin are overweight. I need to be responsible to
the team and responsible to the players.
“When
you are on the pitch, if you can’t play at 100 percent, then it is completely
meaningless.”
Tevez
has been a controversial character throughout an itinerant career spanning
stints in Argentina, Brazil, England and Italy, before he left Boca Juniors for
a surprise money-spinning move to China in December last year.
The
most notorious moment in his colourful career came at Manchester City when he
refused to warm up as a substitute in the last moments of a Champions League
match against Bayern Munich in September 2011.
He
fell out with then-City boss Roberto Mancini and flew back to Argentina to mull
retirement, before eventually returning to England in February 2012.
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