Exclusive – Summerbee: Tevez could win Man City the Premier League

Nicky Summerbee has slammed Carlos Tevez’s recent conduct - but believes the striker could help Manchester City win the title this season.

Tevez, who has not played for City since September, has spent the past couple of months AWOL in Argentina after a much-publicised bust-up with Roberto Mancini.

However, he is set to return to the club this week and, though he faces a huge battle to win over supporters, Summerbee reckons the fiery Argentine could play a pivotal role in the run-in.

“I don’t think the City fans are going to give him the warmest of receptions," Summerbee told Hawksbee and Jacobs. "But if you can get Tevez anywhere near the form he was in before all these problems, it is another quality striker who can get Man City to win the Premier League.

“You can't support Tevez at all. Everything he has done doesn't look good and not everyone is going to welcome him with open arms but when he gets on a football pitch he works his socks off and hopefully he can make things happen – if he gets on the pitch."