Carlos Tevez can count his cash back in Buenos Aires but Shanghai Shenhua wages should feel like ill-gotten gains
The mercenary striker is revered for his supposed passion and commitment but Chinese Super League move wasn’t first time he has sold supporters short
Nearly 20,000 kilometres (12,000 miles) from home, immersed in an alien culture where he hated the food and could not understand the language, Carlos Tevez finally gave up the ghost.
The Argentine striker has made a career out of pretending to be 100 per cent committed on the pitch despite being anything but loyal off it to the clubs he played for, but at Shanghai Shenhua he stopped trying to care.
After first leaving his home continent in 2006 at the age of 22, Tevez had publicly pined for a return to his first club, Boca Juniors, throughout a nine-year stay in Europe.
The boy who lit up La Bombonera with his fiery passion finally got his wish in 2015, except as soon as someone waved enough money under his nose, Tevez was off again, this time to China in January last year.