Source: Daily_Mail
You need English lessons, Zabaleta tells fellow Argentine Tevez
Que? Tevez's grasp of English is poor, says Zabaleta[LNB]Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta has urged Carlos Tevez to improve his English for the good of the team.[LNB]Tevez'scommand of the language is still poor despite spending more than threeyears in the Premier League, and a reluctance to learn the language wasone of the criticisms levelled at him when he was at Manchester United.[LNB]Argentina team-mate Zabaleta, on the other hand, is almost fluent a little over after a year after he arrived from Spain, and he insists that being able to communicate properly with boss Mark Hughes and the City players is vital.[LNB]'Carlos tries sometimes to speak English,' said Zabaleta. 'I said to him he needs to come to me for lessons. I didn't speak English before but I learned it here. When I arrived I could not say anything. I got English lessons once a week. It's important because we need to speak with team-mates and managers. And we are living in England for the future so my English is getting better.'[LNB]Zabaleta also shot down speculation linking him with Juventus.[LNB]He added: 'I don't know anything about the Juve interest. My head is at Manchester City.'[LNB] Singing off the same songsheet: Zabaleta and Tevez share a joke - presumably in Spanish - in training[LNB]Meanwhile, Alex McLeish has asked Birmingham fans to 'unleash hell' at St Andrew's tomorrow to unsettle Manchester City.[LNB]'City need no introduction,' said the manager. 'The names in their side are world-famous. But there is that aspect to football that people want to see the little guy beat the big guy. Mark will try to use that as a weapon to beat people up with.[LNB]'I keep stressing about seeing the St Andrew's I visited a few years ago when Steve Bruce was here. Quite simply, they unleashed hell here.[LNB]'A lot of opposition managers said, 'Phew, that was tough'. The fans were hostile, aggressive and right on top of the visitors.[LNB]'And I want to see it here. If you go to Buenos Aires, the Bombonera, where Boca Juniors play, it's one of the most horrible places for anyone to go.[LNB]'There are the stadiums in Turkey renowned for it. We don't want it to over-step the mark. But players can draw energy from the crowd. There is a line to be drawn, of course. Players do get dogs' abuse and when they react they get into trouble with the authorities.[LNB]'There needs to be banter and the goading of opposition players is part of the game. When it comes to filthy abuse, it's difficult.[LNB]'Adebayor responded to it, he apologised. Bellamy did it. But they are big characters. And it comes with the territory, I'm afraid.'[LNB] Manchester United great Ryan Giggs admits winning league title will be harder than everBirmingham boss McLeish tracking Marc Janko - the Austrian Peter CrouchMANCHESTER CITY FC
