Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is fuming over the timing of Carlos Tevez's transfer request. The Daily Mail says Mancini has been left 'bemused', according to those close to him, by Tevez's transfer request.
Having learned of it last Wednesday, Mancini sought an explanation from the 26-year-old in vain.
Mancini is aware of the issues in Tevez's private life but doesn't understand why he would choose to invite pressure on the club and, more pertinently, himself, midway through a season that could yet end with City having a tilt at the Barclays Premier League title.
Higher up the club's food chain, things are more simple. The blame is directed at Kia Joorabchian, Tevez's mentor and the man behind his moves to Corinthians in Brazil, West Ham, Manchester United and now to City.
Joorabchian was instrumental in bringing Cook to the club but their relationship is now so poor they communicate only in writing.
