Carlos Tevez all smiles after leaving China as he admits ‘it’s much easier if I’m happy’ back at Boca
The Argentine striker says he has ‘no regrets’ about lucrative but injury-marred season in Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua
Having joined Shanghai Shenhua in January last year on an estimated €730,000-a-week (US$871.328) salary, making him one of the world’s highest-paid players, it may explain his comment when Carlos Tevez reflected on returning to Boca Juniors: “As I won, I also lost.”
But Tevez will be happy to settle for just playing after a lucrative but ultimately miserable 12 months with the Chinese Super League club.
“I’m fine. It’s much easier if I’m happy and I’m happy,” Tevez said at his boyhood club’s training ground just outside Buenos Aires.
The striker scored only four goals in the Chinese Super League during an injury-marred season in which he missed the Chinese FA Cup final, which his team won.
“I have no regrets. When I made the decision [to go to China] I took it knowing the consequences,” he said.