Carlos Tevez has admitted he regrets his fallout with Roberto Mancini at Manchester City but maintains he was right to act the way he did.
Tevez, who arrived at Manchester City in 2008/09 as one of the big statement signings of the Abu Dhabi regime that summer, proved to be a massive hit at the club, scoring 73 goals and registering 35 assists in 148 games before leaving for Juventus in 2013.
His final years in Manchester proved to be somewhat acrimonious after a public falling out with then manager Roberto Mancini.
It all centred around a Champions League clash with Bayern Munich in which Tevez was seen to refuse to warm up when called by the Italian.
Tevez now admits that he regrets what happened, although he is insistent that the blame should lie firmly on Mancini’s shoulders.
“I regret the bad moment, but the truth is that I was right,” he told Fox Sports Radio, relayed by Marca.
“The thing was like that, we are going to play Munich and Mancini put Kun Agüero as the only striker.
“At 10 minutes we are losing 2-0, and he turns to me and tells me to go warm up. I thought good; I’d get on in the first half, but no. I was running for 35 minutes.
“That’s what I thought I was going to leave in the second half because he told me to stay warm the halftime, but nothing…
“Fifteen minutes into the second half, I was warmed up, and I went to sit alone, I had been running for more than an hour.
“In that, he turns around and tells me to warm up again, I said no, that it was crazy. After, in the conference, he said that I didn’t want to play. He had everything already set up…”
