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Nicolas Atkin

Carlos Tevez’s joke that his seven-month stint playing for Shanghai Shenhua was a “holiday” has gone down like a lead balloon with Chinese soccer fans.
“We knew the b**** would talk uselessly when he goes back home,” one fan wrote on Weibo after the striker’s interview on Argentine television.
“Wish you break your legs as soon as possible,” was another comment.
Tevez ended his lucrative but underwhelming seven-month spell in the Chinese Super League by moving back to hometown club Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires last week.
The 33-year-old scored just four goals in 20 matches while he struggled with his form and fitness, but still reportedly pocketed US$40 million.
“He filled Santa’s sack and came back to Boca,” was how Argentina legend Diego Maradona put it.

While former Boca player Maradona was delighted about Tevez’s financial windfall, Chinese fans saw the money he earned as ill-gotten gains.
“He only speaks for many of the foreign players [in China] – take the money and leave,” wrote one.
Carlos Tevez can count his cash back in Buenos Aires but Shanghai Shenhua wages should feel like ill-gotten gains
“He still has the face to talk about this and is so proud of it,” scolded another fan.
“A dog without professional qualities, the bad sheep of Argentine soccer,” was another assessment.

Shenhua seemed happy to move on from the former Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus striker, whom they signed from Boca last January on reported wages of over US$800,000 a week.
Tevez was left out for both legs of the Chinese FA Cup final, with the club waiving a transfer fee as they reached a mutual agreement to terminate his contract a year early.
“After looking at Tevez’s interview my heart as a Chinese football fan is again deeply hurt,” wrote another fan on Weibo, according to Agence France-Presse.
“While we are chasing Tevez like a rat crossing the street, China’s managers should also do some good self-reflection.”

During his ill-fated season in China, which saw Shenhua finish 11th, Tevez drew criticism from the media and even his own coach Wu Jingui, who dropped him for being “overweight” after a trip to Buenos Aires for treatment on his calf injury.
Despite bringing an entourage of family and friends with him to Shanghai, Tevez failed to settle and earned the disparaging nickname “very homesick boy” in the mainland.
He added in his interview with TyC Sports that he wanted to return to Boca as soon as he landed in China – and it seems Shenhua fans wish he had done so in hindsight.
“Your playing form means it makes no difference with or without you,” another fan wrote on Weibo.


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Chinese fans call Carlos Tevez a ‘rat’ after holiday joke as backlash to Boca Juniors return builds

Carlos Tevez is all smiles in his presentation as a Boca Juniors player. Photo: Reuters

Boca Juniors' newly returned player Carlos Tevez poses with his new jersey during his official presentation at Los Cardales, Buenos Aires province, on January 09, 2018. Former Manchester United and Juventus striker Carlos Tevez agreed a move back to boyhood club Boca Juniors for the third time in his carreer. / AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH

(FILES) This file picture taken on September 16, 2017 shows Shanghai Shenhua's Carlos Tevez walking to the stands after losing the 2017 Chinese Super League football match between Shanghai East Asia (SIPG) FC and Shanghai Shenhua in Shanghai. Just eight months after Tevez signed with Shanghai Shenhua, the 33-year-old has become a symbol of Chinese clubs' largesse that the Beijing government hopes will never be repeated. / AFP PHOTO / Chandan KHANNA / TO GO WITH Fbl-Asia-CHN-Shenhua-ARG-Tevez, FOCUS by Peter STEBBINGS

Carlos Tevez of Argentina's Boca Juniors takes a selfie with a fan at the Los Cardales complex, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian.

Carlos Tevez says playing in China was a 'holiday for seven months’

Carlos Tevez is back at Boca Juniors in Argentina for a third spell. Photo: Reuters

(FILES) This file picture taken on September 16, 2017 shows Shanghai Shenhua's Carlos Tevez looking on during the 2017 Chinese Super League football match between Shanghai East Asia (SIPG) FC and Shanghai Shenhua in Shanghai. Carlos Tevez looks poised to end his miserable 12-month spell in China with the Argentine former international in talks with his club Shanghai Shenhua to terminate his mammoth contract. A Shenhua spokesman told AFP on January 5, 2018 that the club was in discussions with the former Manchester United, Manchester City and Juventus striker to end his contract. / AFP PHOTO / Chandan KHANNA / - China OUT

Carlos Tevez can count his cash back in Buenos Aires but Shanghai Shenhua wages should feel like ill-gotten gains

Carlos Tevez is back with his boyhood club (again). Photo: Reuters

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (L) celebrates with Carlos Tevez after winning the UEFA Champions League final soccer match against Chelsea at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow May 22, 2008. REUTERS/Darren Staples (RUSSIA)

epa06427498 Argentinian soccer player Carlos Tevez poses during the presentation with the club Boca Juniors, in Los Cardales, Argentina, 09 January 2018. Tevez has returned to his first team from China, where he played with the Shanghai Shenhua. EPA-EFE/Jose Romero

Argentine striker Carlos Tevez makes his way through the arrivals halls at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai on January 19, 2017. Tevez arrived to a rousing welcome from hundreds of fans in Shanghai, where he will join local side Shenhua in a deal that reportedly makes him the world's top-earning footballer. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

Argentine soccer player Carlos Tevez arrives at Ezeiza airport with his wife Vanesa Mansillo, and daughters Katie and Florencia (R), to board a plane to Paris, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires February 13, 2012. Tevez, who has been in Argentina on unauthorised leave from his club Manchester City since last November, is due back in England on Tuesday and could be back playing in the "next two to three weeks" following a thawing in relations with the club, an advisor to his representative said on Monday. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian (ARGENTINA - Tags: SPORT SOCCER TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Argentine great Diego Maradona (L) embraces Argentine striker Carlos Tevez prior a soccer match in La Bombonera stadium, August 29, 2004. Teves was the high-scoring soccer player during the Olympic Games of Athens 2004, and help Argentina to won the gold medal in soccer. Maradona, hospitalized since May in a private psychiatric care for rehabilitation, appeared on a soccer field for first time since May. REUTERS/Andres Stapff

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The former Shanghai Shenhua striker is labelled ‘shameless’ and a ‘dog’ by Chinese Super League supporters on Weibo