No-one knows what Tevez is feeling inside

The City kit manager and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport
THE major talking point at Manchester City is Carlos Tevez’s written transfer request.

After speculation in a couple of national newspapers, the club released an official statement confirming it to be true, although the request has been turned down.

The statement also confirmed that the door has been left open for Carlos to continue playing in the first team.

None of us can know for sure what he is feeling inside, and what his main reason is for asking to leave.

Obviously his children are overseas, which is a difficult situation for Carlos, and maybe this personal problem is the driving force behind his desire to move on.

If our captain does depart, he will be an absolutely huge loss, because his goalscoring record speaks for itself.

Any team in the world would miss Carlos. He has led the line for us this season and been our main threat in front of goal.

As for matters on the pitch, we won 3-1 at West Ham and never really had to get out of second gear.

It was a comfortable afternoon against a side clearly lacking confidence and seriously struggling at the bottom of the Barclays Premier League table.

We looked solid at the back despite the hosts’ late consolation.

The Hammers find themselves four points adrift of safety now and are in desperate need of a winning sequence if they are to avoid relegation to the Championship.

Some of our passing was very good, and it was nice to see us score a few goals.

Overall it was a competent performance. We never seemed to be in any danger.

Another positive was Yaya Toure’s display. He has hit his stride in the last few weeks, and he was on the scoresheet again at Upton Park with a fine strike.

The key now is to keep this good run going and put more points on the board.

We face Juventus on Thursday in the Europa League, although we have already qualified for the next stage of the competition and our hosts have already been eliminated.

We train as normal tomorrow morning before catching our flight to Italy.

There will be a walk around the stadium tomorrow night, before a light training session on Thursday morning.

I haven’t been to Juventus before, but I am no stranger to the Italian game.

I played for Huddersfield Town in the Anglo-Italian Cup back in the 1970/71 season, and scored two goals against Sampdoria.

These days the away trips may sound glamorous, but trust me there is no time for sight-

seeing!