Manchester City fans want club to 'get rid' of Carlos Tevez as soon as possible

Manchester City have been urged ‘get rid’ of Carlos Tevez at the first opportunity by supporters enraged by the former club captain’s refusal to face Bayer Munich as a substitute in Tuesday’s Champions League clash in Germany.

An online poll conducted on Wednesday by the Manchester Evening News asking whether Tevez should play for City again resulted in 90 per cent of respondents voting for the player to be cast into the wilderness at the Etihad Stadium.

And although one lone protestor greeted Tevez’s arrival at Manchester Airport at 2am on Wednesday morning, when City increased security amid fears of a supporter backlash, various fans websites have been flooded with calls for the former Manchester United player to be driven out of the club.

Andy Savage, editor of mcfc-forum.com, said: "I posted on online survey immediately after the game giving supporters three options to choose in terms of how they would deal with Tevez.

"The choices were sack him, let him rot or ‘other’ and, by Wednesday evening, the vast majority had voted for the club to let him rot.

"After what happened at Bayern Munich, the club should get rid of him as quickly as possible. All of the fans I have spoken to want Tevez out on the grounds of gross misconduct.

"If I had been Roberto Mancini in the Allianz Arena, I would have told the fourth official to raise his board with Tevez’s number on it when he substituted Samir Nasri.

"Had he done that, he would have hung Tevez out to dry in front of the watching world.

"If somebody is willing to pay £20-25m for him, then the club should take it because the effect Tevez is having risks becoming cancerous within the dressing room."

Kevin Parker, chairman of the Manchester City Supporters’ Club, said: "When I was speaking to people in the airport after the game, everybody wanted Tevez out of the club.

"They never want him to wear a City shirt again. His relationship with the fans is in tatters.

"I can’t see how this can be repaired. Nobody is going to believe his story that he didn’t refuse to come on.

"We just want to move on without Carlos Tevez. No single person is bigger than any football club and certainly not Carlos Tevez."