KIA JOORABCHIAN insists Carlos Tevez did not refuse to play for Manchester City — and claims his post-match comments were not translated properly.
Tevez is currently serving a two-week suspension pending a club investigation that he allegedly disobeyed Roberto Mancini by refusing to come off the bench during last week's Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich.Tevez's initial post-match comment was translated by a City employee as: "I did not feel right to play so I did not."
But Joorabchian, the Argentine's advisor, said: "One of the biggest problems is that in a situation right after a game questions are asked and things are taken out of context.
"If you don't have a very professional interpreter you have a problem.
"The interpretation was incorrect. Both questions and both answers from Carlos were interpreted incorrectly."
Sky News, who broadcast the interview, have since had the interview interpreted independently.
But even that translation saw Tevez state: "It's just that I didn't want to go in because I thought I was unwell.
"I wasn't emotionally well, and I thought it better not to. I felt that it wasn't suitable that I go on because my head wasn't in the right place."
Joorabchian claimed several Premier League stars had refused to play for clubs during the summer but their managers handled the situation differently.
He said: "This is a personal relationship between two people. We have seen this happen all through the summer.
"We have seen Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri and Luka Modric — the list goes on — but they are the high-profile names who have handed in transfer requests, refused to travel, refused to play. That is a problem in general.
Video: Agent: Tev didn't refuse to play
KIA JOORABCHIAN says Carlos Tevez did NOT rebel — and blames translation"My opinion is they refused to play in a different way and those managers and the clubs handled them very differently.
"Roberto Mancini has his style of management and it is very direct and very different to Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger or Carlo Ancelotti."
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