New Shanghai Shenhua coach Wu Jingui has slammed Carlos Tevez for being \u201coverweight\u201d and insisted the striker was not available for selection until his fitness improved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t pick him right now. He\u2019s not ready physically. He\u2019s not fit to play,\u201d Wu told reporters, as quoted by The Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHe is overweight, along with [Fredy] Guarin. I have to take responsibility for the team and the players as well.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are unable to do your utmost to play, there\u2019s no point in picking you. I have coached lots of big stars, and my players are never picked on reputation\u201d<\/p>\n Tevez recently returned to action after recovering from a calf injury but was booed by fans during Shenhua\u2019s 2-1 defeat to Henan Jianye.<\/p>\n Shenhua have struggled in the Chinese Super League so far this season and are languishing in 11th place. The team replaced former coach Gus Poyet by caretaker Wu until the end of this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Shanghai Shenhua coach Wu Jingui has slammed Carlos Tevez for being \u201coverweight\u201d and insisted the striker was not available for selection until his fitness improved. \u201cI won\u2019t pick him right now. He\u2019s not ready physically. He\u2019s not fit to play,\u201d Wu told reporters, as quoted by The Sun. \u201cHe is overweight, along with [Fredy] Guarin. I have to take responsibility for the team and the players as well. \u201cIf you are unable to do your utmost to play, there\u2019s no point in picking you. I have coached lots of big stars, and my players are never picked on reputation\u201d Tevez recently returned to action after recovering from a calf … Continue reading “New Shanghai Shenhua boss slams Carlos Tevez for being “overweight””<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[248,83,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}