MANCHESTER, England — Brazilian soccer club Corinthians said it had no plans to make a new bid for Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez.
The South American giants made a bid to sign their former striker Tevez earlier in the summer, but failed to agree a deal.
Since then, the 27-year-old Argentina international has made only two starts for City and was last week suspended following his alleged refusal to come on as a substitute during the club’s UEFA Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich.
The episode has left Tevez’s future at the Premier League club far from certain, but Corinthians general manager Edu — the former Arsenal and Brazil midfielder — says that as things stand, Corinthians is not thinking about renewing its interest in the forward, who left the club to join West Ham in 2006.
“At the moment there are no plans to try and sign him again,” Edu revealed. “I’m starting to think about our new squad for 2012 and I’ve talked to our coach (Tite) about what we need — but Tevez was not mentioned.
“We are always interested in world class players like Carlos but you need to analyze if it’s right for you at that time to try to sign him or not. We have not spoken to him or his agent.”
Edu has been at the Leaders in Football conference in London this week, where Tevez’s adviser Kia Joorabchian on Wednesday insisted the striker did not refuse to play for City in Munich, claiming that post-match comments by the player suggesting he had done so were mistranslated by a club interpreter.
Referring to the events in the Bayern match, Edu said, “It is very strange for me to hear that he refused to come on.
“Every player knows that sometimes you have to be on the bench, you work for the team whether you’re playing or not. They pay him to work for the team whether he plays or not. I was a player and I can understand that sometimes it doesn’t feel good to be on the bench, but if he decided not to play that was a very bad decision.”
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