Manchester City owner Sheik Mansour
has told manager Roberto Mancini he will personally pay his legal bills
if he is sued by his former captain Carlos Tevez.
City
are involved in an increasingly ugly dispute with Tevez over Mancini’s
claims that the 27-year-old refused to come on as a substitute in Munich
in the Champions League four weeks ago.
The
Barclays Premier League leaders revealed on Tuesday that they were
fining Tevez four weeks’ wages — in the region of £1million — after
finding him guilty of five charges in relation to the incident at the
Allianz Arena.
Tevez has immediately struck back by
claiming he will sue Mancini for defamation, maintaining that the
Italian’s suggestion that he had refused to play was untrue and
therefore slanderous.
However,
it is understood that Sheik Mansour is so furious at Tevez’s conduct
over recent weeks that he has told Mancini he will foot any legal bills
out of his own personal fortune.
City
do not privately believe that Tevez will take Mancini to court. Such a
move would risk harming the South American’s reputation even further.
Yet the club are ready for anything
and have told Mancini they are fully behind him. Mancini spoke with City
chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak by telephone on Tuesday night moments
after City announced that their internal inquiry had found Tevez guilty.
It
is understood that City’s Arab owners are totally serious when they say
Tevez will be banished to the sidelines for two years rather than be
sold for a penny less than his £40m value when the transfer window opens
in January.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ and eurosport.yahoo.com
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