You need English lessons, Zabaleta tells fellow Argentine Tevez

Que? Tevez's grasp of English is poor, says ZabaletaManchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta has urged Carlos Tevez to improve his English for the good of the team.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.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.'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.'Zabaleta also shot down speculation linking him with Juventus.He added: 'I don't know anything about the Juve interest. My head is at Manchester City.' Singing off the same songsheet: Zabaleta and Tevez share a joke - presumably in Spanish - in trainingMeanwhile, Alex McLeish has asked Birmingham fans to 'unleash hell' at St Andrew's tomorrow to unsettle Manchester City.'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.'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.'A lot of opposition managers said, 'Phew, that was tough'. The fans were hostile, aggressive and right on top of the visitors.'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.'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.'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.'Adebayor responded to it, he apologised. Bellamy did it. But they are big characters. And it comes with the territory, I'm afraid.' 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

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