"Here it's all hip-hop, all in English, so they don't understand a thing," Tevez said of his old West Ham colleagues.

"They want to hear it, they ask me but I say no to them. If they don't understand, what's the point of making them listen to it?"

Interestingly, Piola Vago managed to hit the charts in Argentina with their song Lose Your Control, a jaunty little number which has Carlitos "singing about whipping a girl and begging her for sex".