scenes in English football, a lucrative business for those with good contacts with players and clubs. He is not Tevez's agent -- because he is not Fifa registered -- but he styles himself as the player's advisor. Yet he is also not the puppet master for an empty-headed footballer who does what he is told. Tevez has always been -- to put it mildly -- an independent spirit and liable to react in an extreme fashion to what he regards as provocation or lack of respect. Tuesday's outburst was not a carefully thought-out strategy to get out of City any more than his television interview in Argentina in June in which he described Manchester as "small and wet" and somewhere he would not return "even for a holiday". Tevez claims he made a lot of the remarks tongue in cheek, and was egged on by the presenter, but even so it showed his capacity to go rogue. A few days earlier he had given an interview to the News of the World in Buenos Aires in which he said he was happy to stay at the club at the request of owner Sheikh Mansour with whom he dealt directly. He was even generous about Mancini, saying although they were "not friends" they had a "professional relationship". Those two interviews, given within the space of a few days, revealed how volatile Tevez could be about his feelings for the club. A potential move to Corinthians fell through in the summer and,