Tevez back at City - after claiming he'd never return
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Carlos Tevez was forced to swallow his pride and train with Manchester City on Monday – after vowing to never return to the club.
The City skipper, who is desperate to force through a move before the transfer deadline on August 31, has now returned to training after a three-week holiday.
Tevez was handed the extended break following his involvement in the Copa America with Argentina, but was ordered back to Manchester by boss Roberto Mancini.
Having complained about the Manchester weather in a stinging attack on Argentine TV, Tevez's mood at having to return was surely not helped by the wet and windy conditions at City's Carrington training ground.
Tevez, wearing a grey hoodie with his name emblazoned across the front, was driven into the complex in a black Hummer to undertake a light training session alongside his international team-mate Pablo Zabaleta.
A face-to-face meeting with Mancini over his future will have to wait until later in the week.
The City boss was not at Carrington on Monday, but plans to sit down for talks with Tevez at the back end of the week.
After training for an hour, Tevez was driven away at 12.30pm.
He is expected back in on Tuesday, but he is unlikely to start City's opening Premier League fixture at home to Swansea on Monday.
After an attempt by Brazilian side Corinthians to sign Tevez collapsed due to their failure to secure financing for a proposed £40million fee, the 26-year-old has been left in limbo.
Although Inter Milan are said to be trying to structure a financial package that would enable them to sign Tevez, it seems increasingly likely he will start the Premier League campaign with City.
Tevez pulled no punches with a withering assessment of Manchester on an Argentine chat show in June, despite having lived in the city for three years - two of them as a United player.
"There is nothing to do in Manchester," he said. "There are two restaurants and everything is small. It rains all the time.
"You can't go anywhere. There comes a moment where you say, 'Where am I going to go with my family?' and you begin to feel bad.
"You train, play, do things, and when the family or friends come you feel bad and you can't take them to the movies because they don't understand anything."