Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini: Carlos Tevez will stay at Eastlands

Carlos Tevez & Roberto Mancini – Manchester City (Getty Images)

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Roberto Mancini insists that Carlos Tevez will remain at Manchester City, despite the forward recently expressing a desire to leave the club.

The former Manchester United hitman submitted a transfer request earlier in the season, only to withdraw it and contribute to the winning of the FA Cup, City’s first piece of silverware for 35 years.

Tevez also played a pivotal role in City’s securing a top-four Premier League finish and qualification for next season’s Champions League, which could potentially be a direct entry into the group stage depending on the result of their final game at Bolton on Sunday.

Earlier, the Argentine had been linked with a move to Italy, but Mancini clarified the situation whilst insisting that his captain is going nowhere during the summer.

“First of all, I spoke with some Italian journalists who asked me whether it was possible Carlos could one day go to Inter or Juventus,” he said, according to The Daily Mail.

“I said ‘I don’t know. Maybe. Carlos is in Italy for treatment’.”

Mancini added: “In the newspapers it came out that I said Carlos wants to go to Italy. I didn’t say this.

“Carlos came to me and asked why I had said this. I said I hadn’t. I said I didn’t know whether he wants to stay or go to Italy.

“Carlos said he wants to stay. Finished. This is history.”