Source: Daily_Mail
Tevez chooses City ahead of Chelsea as striker prepares to complete Eastlands switch
Carlos Tevez will fly into Carrington on Monday for a medical before completing a £25million move to Manchester City that will leave Chelsea disappointed.
The striker was being pursued by Roman Abramovich's club until late last week but is heading for Eastlands after being persuaded to join the ambitious project Mark Hughes is masterminding.
Tevez, who has been on holiday for the last fortnight, is hoping to complete the move in time to join the City squad on a tour of South Africa which departs on Thursday with a five-year contract worth £150,000-a-week agreed.
Those wages and the fact his family is settled in Cheshire worked against interest from Chelsea, who were very keen to lure him after he was released by Manchester United but are still adjusting to life as a club without the greatest spending power.
The changing of the guard in terms of finances in the Premier League has been underlined already this summer by City's signing of £12m midfielder Gareth Barry from Aston Villa and striker Roque Santa Cruz, who cost £18m from Blackburn.
But buying Tevez will also make its mark on neighbours United, who failed to convince Tevez they wanted him enough after his two year loan with them expired at the end of last season.
