Soccer World: Tevez eyeing Milan escape-route

It isn’t quite the beloved Buenos Aires Carlos Tevez is so desperate to return to, but the warmer climes and glamorous image of Milan seems a decent back-up option for the Argentine.

His relationship with high-flying Manchester City has been dead for a while, perhaps even before his contretemps in Munich last September. Now he doesn’t even pretend to care about his job, showing the barefaced cheek to simply not turn up for training and instead play golf – in front of the cameras - thousands of miles away in his native Argentina. All while picking up in the region of £250,000 a week.

Now it has been revealed that officials from AC Milan have begun talks with Tevez’s advisors over a deal to take him to Italy.

This is where the Carlos Tevez money machine kicks in. There is no doubting his talent, he is always among the favourites in the top scorer betting ,and his high workrate and energetic style makes him popular with the fans.

But his career is beginning to follow a pattern – with big money moves every couple of years, with his ‘advisors’ and various other hangers on earning very tidy sums for negotiating on his behalf.

Was it the influence of these people, lurking in the background, that unsettled Tevez in the first place?

We can only speculate, but there will certainly be some hard negotiating in the coming weeks. City are desperate to get him off their books before he starts to corrode their promising campaign to date, but they are also rich enough to be able to command a significant transfer fee – they are pretty much the only club in the world who could actually ‘let him rot in the reserves’.

Milan, despite their stature in the World game, don’t have bottomless pockets either so they will be hoping to take advantage of the saga and snap up a talented player on the cheap.

And surely Tevez is keen to play live football again? Or maybe he isn’t, and that’s his problem. But if that is the case then he (and his advisors) shouldn’t be taking vast sums of money with one hand but slapping his employers in the face with the other.