Barry Horne: Greedy Carlos Tevez is just a cash cow

Oct 1 2011 by Barry Horne, Liverpool Echo

I HAVE written at least three times this year about Carlo Tevez.

His latest indiscretion has used gallons of newsprint and filled hours of air-time – and given much satisfaction to those wishing City to fail.

On Tuesday Graeme Souness, the best TV pundit by a mile, nailed the situation with his withering comments.

Dwight Yorke appeared uncertain, at first sympathising with Tevez but eventually agreeing with the authoritative Souness.

Mark Hughes was, interestingly, more sympathetic than Souness.

I would love to be a fly on the wall the day one of Mark’s players refused to go into battle for him!

As modern a man and manager as Mark Hughes is, I suspect the player would be told in no uncertain terms that he was wrong.

Most people have made the connection that Mark Hughes signed Tevez for City. I think a more plausible reason is that they share the same agent.

Carlos Tevez is a cash cow for Kia Joorabchian and, forgive me for stretching the analolgy, it is up to Joorabchian to milk the cow as often as he can.

Forget the family, forget professional ambition, forget repeated lame excuses for poor behaviour, forget insincere apologies – this is about greed.

When certain commentators suggest Tevez should hang his head in shame, that’s not going to happen.

People like him have no shame and in his mind he will be able to justify his actions.

I am willing to believe Tevez’s actions on Tuesday were completely calculated.

He knows that one way or the other he will get exactly what he wanted.