Manchester City have agreed the sale of Carlos Tevez to Juventus for
£10m - at least a third of the fee they paid for him - and with the
player likely to agree personal terms, the club look likely to lose his
£200,000-a-week wages.
The transfer of Tevez on a three-year deal
- agreed on the second day of Manuel Pellegrini's reign as City manager
- will deliver the club a base transfer fee of 9m euros (£7.6m), though
the sum will reach the £10m mark with some of the add-ons Juve have
agreed to, which include 1m euros (£848,000) for every year the Italians
qualify for the Champions League. But it is the wages and bonuses which
they must lose, as an already a summer in which they have laid out £45m
on Jesus Navas and Fernandinho will become more of a drain on their
resources, with a replacement striker critical after Tevez's departure.
City have made an verbal enquiry in the last month about the Borussia
Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski, though they face a battle in their
attempts to sign him. Attempts to sign Napoli's Edison Cavani have
failed.
The lack of agreement on personal terms means the deal is
not complete and Tevez may not immediately fly to Turin for a medical
today because of that. But he is understood to be happy with the highly
incentivised package on the table and negotiations are understood to be
90 per cent complete.
Sources in Italy last night suggested that
Tevez, 29, would earn 5.5m euros (£4.6m) a year in Italy with
substantial bonuses based on appearances and goals, which represents a
near halving of the terms which saw him brought to City from Old
Trafford. Yet he has always hankered after playing in Serie A. He feels
he will join a strong, young side and a club which is some ways is still
bigger than City, if less well resourced.
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