Carlos Tevez insisted suggestions that he picked up his latest calf injury during a prison yard kickabout are 'bulls***'.

Reports emerged on Wednesday that the Boca Juniors striker, who was visiting his half-brother Juan Alberto Martinez at Bouwer's prison, took part in a match in the prison yard before he left, injuring his calf.

But the former Manchester United and Manchester City striker quickly dismissed the stories as nonsense and offered an alternative narrative: he picked up the injury during a workout in the gym.

Carlos Tevez claims stories he injured his calf muscle in a prison yard match are 'bullsh***'

The Boca Juniors striker instead revealed he sustained the calf injury during a gym workout

Speaking to TyC Sports, Tevez said: 'Doing strength work at the gym last Wednesday morning, on the machine I felt a great pain in my calf.

'I do not know why some people do not believe me. If I had not been injured at the gym, I would not be so stupid to say I was injured here.

'But as I'm telling you, they begin to speculate about golf or jail. Sometimes they do not know if they talk bulls*** or not, but I always tell the truth.

'I will not be such an idiot to expose myself to go to jail. That they talk so much bulls*** hurts and makes me stronger, because I have to keep evolving. It's time to shut up and deliver everything on the field.'

Tevez was visiting half-brother Juan Alberto Martinez at Bouwer’s maximum security prison

The 34-year-old returned to his native Argentina in January after a lucrative spell in the Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua.

Tevez earned in the region of £650,000-a-week in China but his attention now remains on sneaking into Argentina's final squad for the World Cup in Russia this summer.

Argentina manager Jorge Sampaoli has an array of attacking options including Tevez, Paulo Dybala and Mauro Icardi that have, so far, been deemed surplus to requirements.