With just seven goals in 24 games since returning from China and having lost his first-team place to Mauro Zarate, time is running out for the veteran
When Boca Juniors and River Plate kick off Sunday's Superclasico in Buenos Aires, Carlos Tevez will be keen to put one over on the Xeneize's most hated rivals.
The very fact that the veteran forward will be starting in the Bombonera, however, is a sign of the diminished status he holds since returning from that disastrous China trip at the start of 2018.
At 34, time is running out for a man who once counted himself among the world's elite strikers.