The club are relaxed about the sentencing, believing it will have no bearing on the striker's long-term future, with Tevez's contract due to expire in the summer of 2014. The 29-year-old, who trained with the squad as usual on Wednesday afternoon, is yet to decide what he will do, with one option open to City being to offer Tevez a one-year extension to protect his value and guard against him leaving for free when the current deal expires.
However, if City were to receive a tempting offer for Tevez during the summer he may be unable to join the buying club because of the sentence unless he successfully applied to the court to change its terms, a route which is open to him. Under the current terms he has 12 months to complete the service.
As the maximum community service a person can do is 35 hours per week those with a more conventional working life could work off 250 hours in around seven weeks. For a professional footballer, though, this would be close to impossible even during the close season due to the demands of pre-season training and tours.
Tevez admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance after being stopped when leaving Mottram Hall Golf Club in a Porsche Cayenne on the afternoon of 7 March following an anonymous tip-off to police.
After sentencing, Elizabeth Depares, the chairwoman of the bench, told him: "Mr Tevez you must realise you are a role model for thousands, if not millions, of fans. Nobody is above the law and you should not have been driving. We have heard that you are sorry. And it is now up to you to ensure you will not be brought back to court again. The aggravating factors we found is that you had no driving licence and no insurance to protect other road users. We also thought that this was intentional."
Tevez, who earns £196,000 a week, was also ordered to pay fines and costs to a total of £1,145.
Tevez you better come to naija if you wanna drive without insurance--wink--
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