Football: Mancini rejects Tevez’s claims

Roberto Mancini has rejected Carlos Tevez’s claims he was treated ‘ like a dog’ by the Manchester City manager, according to the BBC. Tevez made the allegations before returning to City for the first time in three months. He criticised the way Mancini spoke to him before accusing him of refusing to come off the bench in the 2-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in September. “I totally disagree with Carlos because I never treated him badly,” said Mancini. “Maybe the opposite, I treated him too well, always.”  Tevez, 28, trained alone at the club’s Carrington training ground after undergoing brief medical tests following his return from Argentina.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 17^th, 2012.