This from today's press conference:
"I half expected that a long time back," he said of Tevez's exit.
"Maybe in January because I spoke to him and gave him an offer, I think it was on Inter Milan night and he never came back to me.
"I rang him on holiday, texted him twice and he never got back to me, so he had made his mind up.
"But he was a good player and he did well for us. It was a good arrangement for two years where we could assess the situation and he assessed us and he obviously wanted to go somewhere else and we wish him well."