– Boyce
FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce has suggested the organisation could be ready to back Manchester City if they choose to throw the book at Carlos Tevez. City boss Roberto Mancini claimed on Tuesday night that the Argentina striker refused to come on as a substitute in the Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich, although the player has since denied that.
There appears to be no chance of reconciliation though, with Mancini already on record as saying Tevez’s career at the club is over as long as he gets his way and how exactly that would happen is harder to predict.
Tevez was available for transfer during the summer without any viable takers emerging and his recent actions have hardly made him a more appealing prospect and that leaves the option of disciplinary action and the potential for cancelling his contract or seeking a ban.
Boyce, speaking in a personal capacity, would be happy to back any such move. He told Sky Sports News: “If he has done what has been said, and it appears there is no doubt about it – no matter what has been said this morning – then I think his club would be better off without him.
“If Manchester City Football Club prove it, write to FIFA and state the exact circumstances that happened last night then I believe FIFA should have the power, as they do for drugs-related cases and other cases, to ban the player from taking an active part in football. I would have no problem with that whatsoever. It hasn’t occurred before but I think what happened last night was despicable.”