Manchester City captain Carlos Tevez has launched an extraordinary attack on Manchester.
He has hinted recently that he wants to stay - but his comments on an Argentine talk show will not go down well with Mancunians proud of their city's heritage and culture.
The Sunday Mirror says Tevez was being interviewed by Susana Gimenez - Argentina's equivalent of Oprah Winfrey - when he was informed that South American model Evangelina Anderson has just bought a villa in Marbella.
His response was: "Yes but Marbella is different from Manchester. You can buy a holiday house in Marbella, but I'm never going back to Manchester, not even on holiday, not for anything.
"Of course I would buy a house in Marbella.
"The weather, everything. Manchester has nothing.
"For example in Marbella you can buy a house by the beach, relax there and later you can go there on holiday and everything.
"But a house in Manchester? On top of that a house in Manchester costs six or seven million pounds. Pounds!
"It's better to rent and that's that."
Susana said "It's very expensive there" and Tevez replied: "It's another world."
On Friday, Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian insisted that Tevez could stay with the Blues.
Joorabchian said: "I think it all boils down to his family. If they feel comfortable about moving to Manchester then there's every chance he will stay at Manchester."
