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Roberto Mancini keeping Carlos Tevez in the cold
ROBERTO MANCINI has continued his big freeze with rebel striker Carlos Tevez.
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has still not come face-to-face with Tevez since he returned to the club a week ago after three months’ unofficial exile in his native Argentina.
Tevez has been ordered to train in the afternoons while Mancini works with the first-team squad in the mornings.
Yesterday, Mancini had left City’s Carrington training ground by the time Tevez arrived at 3pm.
Mancini is insisting that Tevez apologises to him and the other players – as well as improve his fitness – before he is brought back into the fold.
Meanwhile, Patrick Vieira, who went toe-to-toe with Manchester United for the championship during his nine years at Arsenal, has tipped City to win their first league title since 1968.
It’s in our hands to win the title. We are better [than United]
Vieira, now City’s youth development executive, said: “It’s in our hands to win the title. We are better [than United].
“As a club, it’s quite new for us to be in that situation.
“But we have players with experience; we have a manager with the experience; we have the desire to do it and the focus is there.”