Manchester United have met the asking price for Carlos Tevez but the player has rejected the offer.
I hope all those idiots in the Stretford End chanting for Tevez over Sir Alex Ferguson’s end of season speech feel like proper dicks now.
“Following contact received from Carlos Tevez’s advisors last night, in advance of the deadline the club set for concluding negotiations, Manchester United announces that Carlos will not be signing a new contract with the club,” read a statement on the club’s official website. “The club agreed to pay the option price of £25.5m and offered Carlos a five-year contract which would have made him one of its highest paid players. Disappointingly however, his advisors informed the club that, despite the success he has enjoyed during one of the Club’s most successful periods, he does not wish to continue playing for Manchester United. The club would like to thank Carlos for his services over the last two seasons and wishes him good luck for the future.”
On RoM we’d written about disliking Carlos Tevez and wanting him to leave in the weeks leading up to this decision, so fed up with his poor attitude. After proclaiming his love for the club and fans, it was unacceptable for him to behave the way he did.
Plenty of players go through their careers without forming any particularly strong bonds with the club. Whilst Wayne Rooney and Patrice Evra are happy to show their committed feelings to United, it’s not an expectation. Some players are there to do their job, to play well and to win medals, and that’s alright. Tevez could have been one of those players, but he chose to reach out to the fans and form a relationship with us. So strong was that relationship that some opted to disrespect the manager in favour of showing their support for him.
Whether you had grown tired with Tevez’s behaviour or you were still in full support of him, there’s no denying that we’ve been shown up here. It doesn’t matter if you as a fan were keen to get rid because the club put their cards on the table and were rejected by him. With him likely to join Manchester City after turning us down, you can’t escape the embarrassment that creates for us.
Of course this betrayal will be lost on City fans. They won’t give a fuck less about his dodgy character. These are the fans that welcomed a “human rights abuser of the worst possible kind” with open arms because he came with the promise of success, so a back-stabbing Argie is nothing to them. But I’m sure some of them, the more sensible ones, who don’t have a tea towel in their wardrobe, won’t be too keen on worshipping a player who said he loved United and our fans.
It is usual for us to wish parting players with the best of luck but I can’t hope that any player turning us down for City does well. He’s made his bed and now he has to lie in it. Money means more to him than medals, and more importantly for us, more than our fans he claimed to love so much. We’ve been done by another Argie. What a piss take.
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Fuck him….SIGN UP GIUSEPPE ROSSI NOW FERGIE!!! FERGIE FERGIE SIGN HIM UP
A Prem league stats of 5 goals and 3 assists show he is not good enough for United. He spends far to much time chasing the ball down in areas outside the area, when he should be in the area.
We have a player in Berbatov who has more class in his little toe than Tevez has in his whole body.
If we want chasing down at a cost of less goals, then we had that in Alan Smith.
His actions towards the end of the season, playing the fans for fools while disrespecting Fergie showed what an idiot the guy was.
Now Ronaldo has gone, we need goals and fluency in attack, Tevez wouldnt bring us that.
I for one am glad. £25m on someone who is likely to sit on the bench is a waste. Don’t ask me who we should sign because everyone at the moment are ridiculously overpriced!!
¡No Pasarán!
We already did sign giuseppe rossi
And i think you jumped on the bandwaggon when he scored the fantastic goals against the USA.
My wish has been granted.
I’d REALLY like us to be the one’s in for David Villa but I can’t imagine him coming to a squad with no Spanish background.
Liverpool would have more chance there!
I’m keen on Valencia and I think one key big name signing is needed.
I am glad that next season Berbatov will get a good chance to make some of our lot eat their own words when putting the guy down!
UNITED.
HERE BEFORE.
HERE AFTER.
Scott…reaction please, what the fuck will we do without teves and ronaldo (aside from media peace), while the only player we have a serious shout of signing is valencia.
Carlos Tevez. Footballs equivalent to boxings journeyman! I am delighted we have not signed him, ecstatic actually!
yup with ya on this scott, irrespective of whether tevez stayed back, u dont insult fergie!!, he stays by this club builds the club whenever the so called “irreplacable ” stars leave our club,,, SAF IS GOD!, not ronaldo nor tevez
Have a little patience…….
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Finally, we’ll have a whole squad of players who don’t complain, who wantto play for United because we are the biggest, and the best, and we are capable of winning 5 trophies this season.
I’m glad that Tevez and Ronaldo have left, we can now play football, pass it around, create chances from both wings, and aim to become clinical in the goal scoring department. All that creativity, especially the kind that Tevez had, was very hit and miss, sometimes it’d produce an absolute scorcher or a goal, or a really brilliant piece of approach-play, but most of the time, it’d result in goal kick!
Lets start breading consistancy, and hopefully, Campbell can show some of his goal scoring prowess in Sweden, and stay at OT this season!
“I hope all those idiots chanting for Tevez over Sir Alex Ferguson’s end of season speech feel like proper dicks now.”
Spot on. No offence to United fans who pay their hard earned money to go at OT,but they really missed the boat on that one.
I was one of the people who loved how he tried, tried, tried like the best but in a way, he reminded me a little of Alan Smith.
WOOHOO!!
@ Macheda is GOD
it’s true he did score two excellent goals, but i’ve been on Rossi’s bandwagon since we sold him to Villareal…we should have never had let him go…i’m just angry that the disloyal rat-faced tevez was higher in the pecking order than Rossi was…
Victor valdes as goaler please.(after the upcoming season)
Benzema
Affelay
Young
De Rossi
Shame he is going as he did a good job for us – Too much money though and now we can focus on the new look United. Rooney was always a better version of Tevez and perhaps now what we need to spend on is a BIG STRONG LAD – Benzema would fit the bill but only if he wants to come. Do not beg for him to come to Old Trafford we do not stoop to that level. If not him then Fergie will pull another Rabbit out of his Tartan hat.
I don’t really care who come and go but now we really need a goalscorer…
I believe that Rooney, Berba and the young lads will get us the goal but we do need at least one quality signing that can score goals…
Am i the only one who feels there is a shortage of quality players out there ? For once we actually have about 100 million to spend and yet i can’t see any world class player heading to OT. Villa, Ribery, Silva and even Benzema will be joining Real Madrid at some point. Which leaves us with the likes of Eto’o, Zlatan, Santa Cruz… No thanx. So what next? Can anyone tell me who we might be signing realisticaly? Let’s hope we get that Douglas guy.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2488145/United-drive-us-round-the-Benz.html SO CLOSE C’MON
Brilliant. Carlos doesn’t want to stay at the club despite the ridiculous money offered.
Now the fans who out sang Fergie must be really feeling proud. Tevez has a miserable attitude towards football being a squad game and we are better off without someone like that. Good riddance.
Fans were out singing Fergie when we’d won the title and look what you get. Like idiots everyone wanted him here. Rejecting a contract here and most probably moving to City. Take that!
Good riddance and win f*ck all where you go next!
I think Affelay has the potential to be a world class player and he scores a lot of goals with both feet .
Benzema ,as i stated here before,is the only Goal scoring machine available now,and sign for me is a priority.
De Rossi is great DM, we really need if the stories about hargo are true.
Young is better than valencia .IMHO.
Tufty – No it only shows what bloody numptees some United fans have become. Tevez whined continuously TO THE PRESS, and tried to FORCE United into making his deal permanent, but United had their reasons for slowing things down. Apart from the fact United are not known for doing anything at other than snails pace, they wont let any player or agent dictate terms or progress. The Rent a Mob fans who boo-ed a Fergie decision in substituting Tevez, and ruined his PL victory speech, maybe will go and support Man Pity now, or Chelski or wherever GULLIBLE and duped fans go – sad!
Anyone who turns down a 5yr deal as one of the clubs top earners, doesn’t deserve to be a Manchester United player. And any respect I had left for the guy, since the drama at the end of the season, has quickly evaporated.
Just pray he goes to Shitty and not THEM.
You cant proclaim love for fans and club and yet not go to the functions and dress appropriately before and after game. I feel he was waiting to see who we signed and thus got a feel if he was going to be a regular starter but with the time frame put on his decision now he must live with it. Ronaldo gave us 6 yrs and wants to fulfill his dream, good luck to him.
Rossi was not good enough and is not built enough for Utds styleor the Prem league. Dont be fooled by his goal rate in Spain, as Forlan and Kanoute also get good goal returns in Spain.
Campbell is also not good enough for Utd or a top level team.
Macheda and Wellbeck need a loan spell, but given the weakness in the squads attacking options, I cant see that happening.
Benzema would be my number one target and has been for a few years.
Strong, holds the ball well, drops deap when needed and has an eye for goal, add into the fact that he is only 21 and you have a player who can do for Utd what Torres has done for Liverpool.
Valencia will add width and pace, he also drops back defensively and is a great option for the wing.
I would also bring in another creative midfielder, someone along the likes of Silva or a holding player as back up for Hargreaves, Senna from Villareal or Gatuso would be a short term option.
Possebon is a great future midfielder who has more quality than Gibson and will be a great midfielder for Utd.
Pooja, that’s because he will get double the ridiculous money offered at Man Pity or Chelski! He is going for one reason MONEY. He had 48 games last season, as many as the other strikers, so all this I wasn’t respected and didn’t play the big games is SHITE. I truly hope SAF signs no more BAD APPLES, and no Argentinians, because they and United don’t go together.
Give youth a chance. We do not need any other mercenaries.
well now it surely is a new look team next season…We have lost Ronaldo and Tevez…Giggs,Scholes,Neville and Van Der Sar are going to play lesser every month ….So that is almost like losing 6 players…more than half a team…But we know that we had strength in depth last year…this is where i am afraid we will be lacking next season…We need to make 2-3 quality signings and also give chances to the youngsters…its a very fine line to balance on.. but if there is anyone who can do it,then its surely SAF…We need a top striker,A midfield general and a winger…so lets see how things turn out in the next couple of weeks…but one thing is for sure we need to get some high profile signings in …
After all the professed love for the club and fans, it turns out he’s just another mercenary. Thanks for the goals but also good riddance.
It is essential to remember, Tevez was our 3rd choice striker in the summer of 2007: we only went for him after failing to get Berbatov and Torres. He was 3rd choice because he wasn’t the missing piece in our jigsaw ie he wasn’t the prolific scorer who would play highest up the field, with Rooney in his rightful place off the front man.
We got him on a loan because at that price, we needed to see how he would fit in our team first, before lashing out the fee. How he fitted in that first season was as someone who’s running helped create the space for Ronaldo to do the scoring, rather than as the principal goalscorer himself – some critical impact goals aside.
How he reacted in his 2nd season to increased competition for his place, with Berbatov’s arrival, was to bitch and moan and undermine the manager’s authority. (Rather than by settling the argument by raising his game, the way, say, Lampard did when Veron and Joe Cole’s arrival at Stamford Bridge initially led to suggestions that his Chelsea days were numbered.) And with Ronaldo scoring at a reduced rate, and his own erratic finishing failing to fill the void, the team became over-reliant on clean sheets to win matches. So as the loan deal expired, he didn’t look worth the quoted fee required to sign him, and United tried to negotiate.
About which Tevez claims to have been humiliated. Whoever heard of such a thing – a player complaining that their suggested transfer fee wasn’t high enough ? Does Ribery complain that Bayern aren’t asking for enough, that he feels insulted because Madrid haven’t already put €70m on the table ?
The only thing United have done wrong in my book is cave in to Joorabchian’s demands and offer the full price. Because they were 100% right not to want to pay that in the first place. Because Tevez was never the starting XI player we wanted or needed, and was unwilling to play the Solskjaer his actual contribution merited.
I am so glad we have to look elsewhere now; I only hope we show the ambition to get the player now we needed then, rather than settle for second rate whilst Madrid get to turn fantasy football into fascist reality.
Essentially we have to put trust in SAF as we have done in the past 25yrs. Great/good players will always come and go, Man Utd will continue.
@ everyone
If Tevez rejected the offer because of money then yes he is a prick..but if he rejected it because he thought he would not get enough opportunities then we should respect his choice…still lets see if he has the balls to reject City…i prefer him at Chelsea than at city…
Park Park wherever you may be .
you eat dogs in your country .
could be worse ,could be scouse .
eating rats at the council house .
I’ll say it for the last time.
Goodbye Tevez.. good luck for the future.
ARGENTINA!
I was a fan of his and had hoped he would stay but I feel like a proper fool now. I have lost all respect for him. There is no guarantee he will get first team football with city now that santa cruz is on his way, or chelsea either. Wherever he ends up, i hope he festers on the bench and we go on to win all around us. If there is a lesson to be learned here it is that we should never sign another argentinian again. Veron, that muppet heinze and now this traitor, i’m disgusted!
As for new signings, i believe Fergie will deliver the goods before the start of the season but atleast we know where we stand now.
Welcome to Manchester Carlos.
fuck this guy. This is good news because it means our team will be more different next year, which is always exciting. Plus, is anyone else like me, when you see Tevez miss a shot or kick it right to the keeper, you think: if anyone else was there, it would have been a goal??
Bless his effort, but there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to be a soccer star. And this guy is a dick, he’s so unprofessional with his public whining. So he can suck it. Let’s go.
lol. After all that “I love the fans and the fans love me” , he still leaves.
I knew it from the start and MU will be better off giving that 25.5mil along with one of the highest paying 5 year contract to someone else rather than a proven 3rd striker.
He had made his contribution and thank you very much but now it’s him who made the choice to not fight for his place and leave.
BTW, why would SAF go out and say that he will sign this or that player ?? I think MU learnt from their previous experiences that doing that will only jack up the price and increase competition. Similar to the time when we tried to sign Ronaldinho, Arjen Robben and Essein and eventually lost. SAF will probably come out with a reaction when the deals are done.
I hope we dont miss on Benzema. when Torres was available, we were the only club that peoble believed he’ll end up with …
Remember Tevez is an impact player. When he started and played the whole game he was not as effective. When he came on with 20-30 mins to go he had the pace to make a difference. He wasn’t happy with this. How short sighted. One of our greatest players, in fact a legend was OLE who came on anytime and did the job that the boss and the team wanted and never complained. He was offered deals but never left us and he still remains with us in a mangerial capacity. TEVEZ take a look at were you want to finish up in the future and not just next season. Shitty will dump you like a hot potato when you bitch and moan.
excellent, now all the twats are out of the team.
The worry is how it must look for potential signings when the likes of Ronaldo and Tevez want to jump ship, the club can’t treat players poorly like they have with Tevez and expect him to stay because they finally got around to making him an offer.
These players need to be replaced with top quality signings and not the likes of Valencia from Wigan.
I dont think you can class veron in the heinze/tevez bracket… Veron was very professional while with us and often spoke of his genuine admiration for the club, remember it was United that decided to sell him, veron didnt want to leave. I think he was a bit pissed at SAF we he got sold but over all he was genuine in his intentions to stay unlike those other fuckwits!
Another thing to remember Heinze and Ronaldo are best friends, Tevez and Heinze are also best friends.. see a common trend here folks in terms of player attitude! I wonder who is playing of who!
Just hope no more fucking cunts arrive this summer
dead on, howie. We’ll just have to go spend 25mil on someone who’s worth that kind of money. In all honesty, i’m a little relieved that we ain’t spent that on him, we just need to make sure he’s properly replaced, like ronaldo.
Matt – I think the real lure would be to play for manchester united rather than who is leaving the club! If that is a players attitude then they go and fuck off to another club!
And how did United disrespect Tevez? Did the guy not play 48 games last season?
Spot on Coogie, and at a club like United you can expect to start every game and when you dont you dont moan about it and rather show your performance on field. The only time i think we let down Tevez down was when we didn’t give him a start in the next match after he scored 4 against Blackburn.
The fact is this.We could have been losing 3-0 against Barca and win 4-3 thanks to 4 Tevez goals. The man’s attitude stinks and he doesn’t deserve to wear the red shirt.It’s not always about lifting trophies.If he stayed,the integrity of the club would have been jeopardised.
go back to Argentina Tevez…go and have a gang bang with Juan Peron, Galtieri and Adolf Eichmann for all I care….
Veron was a class player, the problem we had was Keane and Beckham were already at the cloub, so how do you accomodate Veron?
All players who want the ball and allplayers who like to dictate play with the ball.
Veron actually contributed more assists in his last season than Beckham.
Veron was Uniteds biggest signing at the time, a signing that made all of Europe sit up and take note, one of the biggest names in World Football coming to English football.
Heinze was a great player, but he never recovered from his cruciate injury and then lost his place to Evra. He wanted to be first choice so left.
He has shown at Madrid that his best days were behind him.
One thing about Tevez going, is that you know he wont get 20 goals a season and he wont be a vital cog in turning Utd over.
Way I see it carlos is a fool and a mercenary.
Teams filled with mercenarys dont do too well in the long term. Chelsea, blackburn, real madrid, inter milan all found after a season or two it starts to fall apart.
Benzema is taller anyway and we could do with some height.
Get ruud back too i reckon.
he’s an arrogant and brutish individual
Glad to see him gone. Was once a big fan of Tevez but all the tabloid trash talk over the past few months has not impressed me. Great save of £25.5 million and the thousands and thousands we would’ve paid the guy every week in wages.
This summer is starting to remind me of 1995. After losing a cup final we sold a goalscoring right winger and a much loved centre forward keeping an expensive new striker the fans, by and large, hadn’t really taken to. The scouse told us it was their year and one of their own told us we wouldn’t win anything with kids…
2009/10 will be a good year for United. Watch and see.
It always feels disappointing when one of our players leaves in this manner. Again it is an Argentinian that has done it, again after receiving full committment and ‘love’ from the fans. Now that is three foreign players that have let us down. This sort of thing never happened at United before these guys came along.
Regarding Tevez’s specific case, I was not happy when he first came to us, and then a matter of weeks later started talking about giving his best years – ‘while he was at his peak, not when he was on the way down and couldn’t make a difference’, I think his words were – to Boca Juniors, the team he ‘loves’. As I pointed out at the time, how did he expect United to give him a deal after the first two loan years were up when we would have to pay over £25 million for him, knowing he was planning on leaving after that contract? We would have had to sell him on after the first two years unless we were prepared to write the money off.
I think the ‘lack of games’ excuse is a smoke screen. If you put yourself in his position, assuming he also has people looking after his ‘football’ interests, then everything points to staying at United. He has a lot of the fans prepared to invest in him 100%, he is part of a highly successful club with a mandate to improve the team and the management have shown their intent by offering a payment for him, that is way over the top, and who are willing to make him one of United’s top earners.
His advisors should be screaming at him to sign – unless the guys he is so close to, and has agreed long term plans with are working on other principles, and that is to make his temporary stay in Europe as profitable as possible. If that is the goal they agreed on before making the now infamous move to West Ham, then Tevez’s posturing and playing to the crowd have all been part of something aimed at feathering their own beds, and the next chapter in this players career was always going to be dependant on creating the most possible interest for the best possible deal at the end of his two year lone period.
I personaly think this has been the case. I admire Tevez for his professionalism on the pitch, but he has never formed any allegiance to the teams he has played for in Europe. That has all been part of the ‘show’. He should be biting our hand off to stay now. He would never get a stronger position at a club – both with the fans and the management- than he has now. If he had any real feelings for our club he would sign, because he knows he has created the perfect platform to become a United legend. He would have suddenly succeeded where Ronaldo had failed, and the pressure to regard him as a first choice player would have been huge.
The fact he has made the choice he has points to one thing only, and that is the best possible financial deal he can get for his last contract in Europe. He and his advisors are sticking to their plans and Tevez’s European career is not based on love or loyalty, it is based on the best possible financial deals for him and his owners. So Tevez, pack your bags, clean out your locker. Your actions have damaged this club and you will not be made welcome, by me at least, in future. Let this be another lesson learnt concering these ‘latin’ type of players. We can utalise them on our terms but do not make plans aound them. Ther true loves are in sunnier climates where they can spend OUR hard earned dosh!
Can we please have our money back £9 million deposit we paid for the Judas. We have met his demands and his transfer fee so return the money.
Good riddance, I say – and I’m glad I never got on the ‘sign him up’ bandwagon.
The issue now is, replacing players, and that is what I’m worried about. Not about the Tevez replacement, because he was never THAT good for me, and I think one of the younger guys (Macheda, Welbeck, even Manucho) can step up next season. But replacing Ronaldo will be a big task as will shoring up our midfield. I am anxious to see some movement there, but honestly I think we’re going to have a really tough time this off season because we will NOT pay over the top for any player (and that’s fair enough) and that means I don’t see us signing any truly ready made, world class player. I see us going for young, talented, slightly untested players again (Valencia for example) but not much beyond that. I hope I’m proven wrong!
Well ”DEJUVU” we have been here before. Was there Man U after Beckham, Cantona, Keane, Van Nistleroy and a few others…..Let THE GAFFER do what he does best, create the team we will support and adore for years to come. Whoever comes in will rise to the occasion because with the fans support plus the calibre of player still at the club the new player can only improve. So dont panic guy’s
I’m really very disappointed with Tevez
But still: Thank you Carlitos for some very important goals and all the success you’ve had during your time with United! I’ll never forget the late equaliser vs Blackburn or the penalty in the European Cup Final.
But for the future I’m only wishing him that he’ll part as quickly as possible with his stupid adviser, who messed up his whole career. With good, and not greedy, advisers he would have signed for us. I’m sure about that.
So what next? Now we need to sign a striker. My targets would be Benzema, Agbonlahor, Rossi (if he doesn’t demand a place in the starting line-up) and maybe Huntelaar. Or should we maybe keep Campbell and risk it with Campbell, Macheda and Welbeck?!?
fu*ck off tevez you re ass argi ass hole like hienze no loalyty the best fergi
Always look on the bright side of life
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Anderson
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You win nothing with kids .. Busby Babes, Alan Hansen boyz!! .. Next please
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So, now that that situation is clairified, I think that we can look for UTD to be doing-the-bizness in the transfer market. Losing Ronaldo was cushioned by 80,000,000 reasons; losing Tevez provides another 25,000,000. What will SAF do with over 100 million quid ? I think we’ll learn about that sooner rather than later – I doubt he wants another situation like last August when he had to “kidnap” Berbatov and then struggle to integrate the new player. And, since Tosic has now confirmed what everyone – but me – suspected, it’s been a while since SAF knew that Ronaldo would have to be “replaced”. Of course, a direct replacement is not on the cards – CR was a fantastic blend of courage, greed, skill, power, strength, speed, and ambition. But, if he can’t be “replaced” then the team can be re-invented – losing CR give Rooney the chance to be TheMan; hopefully, he can grab it with both hands and stay injury-free. One suspects that Berbatov was purchased last August in order to provide a relatively smooth transition to the next “NewUTD”. But the question remains – what is SAF going to do with 100,000,000 ? I think we’ll learn sooner rather than later now that it’s clear none of that money is earmarked for Tevez’ bank account.
Heh, tony singh , no place in your team for the other twin (Fabio), Nani, Possebon or the young Barzilian we have reportedly just signed (Dodo)? And Wes is gone too I see. What about Giggsy, the two Serbs we signed in January, and no place for Paul – can’t get a spot on the bench either? What about Hargreaves, Gary and O’Shea? As you have rightly pointed out tony, things don’t look too bad when you analyse things!
Just seen you named Tosic on the bench tony. I really hope he can come into the picture this year. The other guy we signed with him is reputedly much better. Can’t wait to see him. Is there any one who has seen any of his games? He’s only 16-17 isn’t he?
To start…Van Der SAR——-O Shea–Rio–Vidic–Evra——– Fletcher–Carrick–Giggs—Anderson———Berbatov–Rooney………Bench Foster—Nani—Da Siva Twins—Scholes—Neville—Macheda—Welbeck. This was a starting line up early in the season last year… Plus Tosic–Possabon–Petrucci— REMEMBER our unsung hero last year was O Shea plays were ever he is needed and he did a good job at right back. 110 % commitment.
As far as out 100 million budget is concerned, i am still not convinced that they will go into transfers.Even half of it.Ronaldo has been gone for 10 days now and we haven’t made an offer for any player apart from Valencia.Maybe we are waiting for the Ronaldo deal to go through for good before making our moves.But all we are doing now is waste time.Whilst i think that United can cope with their current strikers,i am not so sure that United can cope without enhancig their creative midfield.Whether that is the wing or the centremwe need at least 2 players there.Apart from the Ronaldo-Tevez departures, we have Giggs and Scholes getting closer to retirement.
Sign Tevez!
Wasn’t given enough time to think about it…..I DON”T BELIEVE YOU TEVEZ!!!!!
You just wanted to see who will be giving you more money that’s all…..your heart isn’t with Man Utd as you always said….but it’s with how much more money you will be given.
SO, i’m with ManUtd for letting you go…….
I was one of the fools that sung tevez’s praises , week in , week out ! but after watching the post-match interviews the man broke my heart. If you cant commit yourself to the best team on the planet , who can you commit to ? goodbye tevez and good ridance joorabchian !
He wanted more time?The offer was on the table for 3 weeks at least.How much did he want?
As per Tevez’s agent’s latest statement that he wasn’t given enough time to assess the offer Man U gave him. He was given the offer 10 days ago ,,,,how long does he need to decide and even so if he wanted to stay then he should have made it known to the GAFFER and i am sure they would have done a deal. By the way what was the agent doing while Tevez was playing for argentina 2 weeks ago..? Don’t think Tevez has any balls to make a decision himself.
Something is a little strange here!
Tevez had been saying all year he wanted to sign … bla bla bla!!
United finaly accept to pay the 25mil which was a little over priced concidering the market etc!
Now ronaldo’s move comes to light i can understand why fergie has held off in hope that ronaldo will change his mind and want to stay! If ronnie had stayed then we didnt really have a place for tevez! A player like benzema who can play on the flank and rotate like the players we have would have better suited the team!
Rooney can play up front – On the Left and On the right
Ronaldo could have done the same
Tevez was only suited to the middle!!!
If ronnie had stayed we could have had rooney – ronaldo & benzema all switching postions throughout the match causeing considerable problems for any defence! The games where we needed a bit of height we could have had berbatov up front!!
We have a massive war chest! I do not expect too many signings if i am honest and this coming year might be a building year! For me a winning team takes more than the players but i feel that the main team has to be playing together for 2-3 years to gel and play at their maximum potential!
Liverpool and chelsea are doing this now so for united to loose ronaldo and replace him might be too much of an ask to win the league next season! I might be wrong but we will be unable to bring in 2 or 3 players and expect them to light us on fire!!
Potential signings? Erm Id say Benzema, Ribery or Ashely Young (winger from Villa!)
Why young? He is english and we will have longativity with him! It is more difficult to keep foregien players at your club! Thats one of the main reasons fergie doesnt mind paying over the odds on British tallent! He gets better value for money long term!
@ CHRIS G
Oshea our unsung hero?? ERm i dont think so!
Oseah can fill in the gaps but no way is he a first team player in my eyes! I cringe every time he plays. For me his passing is slopy, he gives away possession too many times and due to not playing the same position every week gets caught out of position too often.
Dont get me wrong im greatful but by far not happy when he plays!
Yeah, Tevez alone made this decision. Yeah right. Fuck him. He is out of here, he doesn’t matter anymore. As i said above, the bigger issue is what we will do with the money. United need reinforcements in midfield and the wings.
Kia is leading Tevez down the garden lane….Carlitos options are currently CIty and Chelsea….you know he won’t be a central figure at Chelsea unless they get rid of Drogba or Anelka which probably won’t happen…Chelsea is one of those clubs if you are not big time you are shipped out…he will quickly realize that with Drogba, Anelka, Sturridge, De Santo his opportunites might be just as limited…so City is is only true viable option since he turned down Liverpool (where he would would probably start with Torres)…so he’ll be counting his cash and most likely be mid-table!..meanwhile Kia will laugh his way to the bank with 25 million…
Spot on Scott and Costas. I spend ridiculous amounts of money to see United every week only to hear Fergie sign him up bullshit. Carlos Tevez was never United class I said it before and I will say it again. I am a bit upset about Ronaldo going but I am looking forward to a liberation for Wayne Rooney.
Mark my words: Wayne Rooney, World Player of the Year 2010.
The problem is there are no real, quality, proven players out there either available or who want to play for us. Benzema would come but Aulas wants £50 mill.
KIA Joorabchian has just come on Sky Sports and given it the sales shpiel. Carlos this and that and loves United but didnt feel part of the family etc… He will take time to make a decision, as if he hasn’t had 2 years not to think things through. Anyway, it would be interesting to see if United ever deal with this type of 3rd party person ever again. I think we got the best deal, Tevez for 2 years, having seen he could cut it in the premiership with west ham, and now we move onto bigger and better things. Carlito (and Kia) thanks for the service, but don’t try and be clever with United.
Many United fans (in general, not on RoM so much) turn on players they loved so much when they leave, such as Ronaldo and Tevez. I think Tevez has made a huge mistake turning down a club which has fans who loved him so much. He said he wouldn’t move to Liverpool because of the rivalry between them and us, but feels free to move to City or Chelsea.
Unfortunately, he won’t be well received at OT again.
I knew i would get some reaction but it just shows commitment. The poor guy even played in goals once. Lets hope we can get the youngster Benzema. At 21 years old he is worth the investment, we would make him into the next Superstar. Playing next to Rooney and with The support of The fans and the side he will definitely improve him to no end.
United one love
you are right. its the biggest load of bullshit
He is claiming turning down Liverpool out of respect for United. bollocks, the dippers haven’t got the cash.
he is sugesting that carlos would go to City because he likes the challenge,
bollocks.
he is suggesting that the little twat would play more games at the bitters,
bollocks, they are not in Europe.
Excuses,excuses,excuses.
@Ben:
It’s not something usual for me to do that.And if you asked me until late April how i felt about Tevez leaving, i would have told you that i was gutted.But then he made a fool out of himself with those interviews and unfortunately some fans at OT got on board with that.That’s why i was wishing for him to leave us.He had become a cancer.And to want to be the highest payed player at the club?After being here for 2 years?It’s a joke.
I thinkt that he didn’t go to Liverpool because they didn’t have the funds to make the offer he wanted.It has nothing to do with loyalty.He is only loyal to Joorabchian.
Unsurprisingly you sound like a spoilt 12 year-old brat Scott.
We had our chance to sign him, chose not to, made him third-choice, let others make offers for his services – no-one else to blame but ourselves. If he goes to City then it’s disappointing but he goes wherever he goes with my thanks for his terrific contribution in 07/08 especially, and at key points of last season.
Grow up.
spot on, scott. also, to all you people slagging berba because of your love for tevez, i hope you realize who the true united player is now. tevez running around with no end product and running his mouth in interview after interview, wishing to be the highest paid player at OT? no more ronaldo, no more tevez, now we will truly have an unselfish, UNITED squad. in fergie we trust.
Don’t let these SHISTERS kid you, with all the ‘Tevez won’t sign for L’pool out of respect for United fans’, hahahahahahahahaha who the fuck believes that. He is not signing for the scousers because he is getting double the wages at Man Pity. If the scousers offered him the same money as the Pity, he would be playing for them. He wants to remain popular with our fans, and get a rousing reception when he returns to OT. Yeah right, maybe he will from those United fans who boo-ed Fergie, and DISRESPECTED his end of season celebration speech, but any United fan sick of the way Tevez has BADMOUTHED our club for weeks now, will not give him any further accolade, but boo him off the fucking pitch!
@NockOGS20 – calm down mate!
@ everyone else:
I was fond of tevez. I’m less so now. but i can’t say i hate him because i don’t feel i know enough facts.
Why is he leaving? Has he truly been insulted by the club? Does he want more money? Does he think he’ll get more games elsewhere? And how influenced is he by his agent?
Or is it United that walked away from the table, perhaps because they have a better option lined up?
Carlos Tevez played for united with heart. he was the definition of tenacity, he wasn’t one who struck me as hugely egocentric, and he certainly became a terrace favourite. the dummy-sucking goal tributes were particularly touching and amusing.
Tevez felt he didn’t play enough games. yet he played many more games than a lot of people who didn’t complain (as Park noted whilst dishing out some advice to his colleague and good friend about keeping quiet). Whilst it’s a good thing that players are gutted when not selected because this usually means that they will play even harder for the shirt, it is less good when players go public with selection gripes. In fact it’s simply unprofessional.
Joorabchian’s line about Tevez not having enough time to consider United’s offer, an offer which met the demands of player and agent, is insulting to the intelligence of fans. It really doesn’t wash, and yet it’s the best he can come up with. Had the pair of them never considered the possibility of staying with United? Hmm…
What would matter to the Joorabchian more: where his client plays, or how much money he makes? Tevez is off to another club in england, which can only be a drop in standards. let’s hope the extra cash cushions the fall.
It seems to me that whoever made the decisive move in this saga, it probably wasn’t Carlos Tevez. If it was Joorabchian, it was for the money. If it was Gill, it’s because there’s someone better than Tevez waiting in the wings (if so, let’s hope it’s Benzema, although i wouldn’t turn my nose up at Eto’o either).
So i can’t say if i hate Tevez. But i can say i don’t love him just as sure as i can say that he can never have loved Manchester United.
PS been lurking here for a good while. finally felt compelled to write something. hello to everyone, especially Scott, on what must be the best Utd blog on the web.
Ronaldo deserves respect when he comes back to OT. Tevez deserves nothing but complete silence.He is not important enough to get booed.
Now this mess is over, we can now try and concentrate on getting a couple of players in.
I just hope there are 2-3 United quality players out there.
Manchester United LOYALISTS:-
Wes Brown, Sheasy, Vida, ? Evra (I’m not convinced about him yet), J Evans, ROONEY, BERBA, Red Nev, Scholesy, Giggsy, Fletch, Carrick, Nani (who wants to stay and prove he is United player). Park, Tosic (said since he was nine, he would play for Man Utd and in the world cup). Not so sure about Anderson. Hargreaves is so United, and I truly hope he can regain his fitness.
I believe it is up to United fans to UP THE VOLUME of sound at OT this coming season. We need to be heard, regardless of who is wearing the Red Devil shirt. Great support, making OT a theatre of mortal combat, will cause Red Devil warriors to fight like fuck for us.
SAF should not RUSH into forcing thru any quick deals just to appease impatient fans. We don’t have to just sign any big name on the horizon to prove anything to anybody. Man Utd fans, WE ARE MANCHESTER UNITED!
Thank fucking god. I was dreading the prospect of signing him for that ridiculous price and then having him moan everytime he wasn’t played for the full 90.
Fuck off Carlos!
Firstly, Tevez is expendable as he is in the same mold as two other players at United, but there are clear quality differences: Rooney > Park > Tevez. Secondly our forward line would look more complete with a skillful powerfull worker like Rooney, a tall skillfull target man like Berba and hopefully a quick (tall) poacher in the Anelka mold someone like Benzema. Then the 4th place will be fought out between Mascheda/Wellbeck/Frazier. I would be very happy with that.
But that all depends on who we buy to replace Ronnie and Carlito. If we do it well, we will clearly improve as a team, I have no doubt about that.
Apparently Piola Vago want to do a cover of Morrissey’s song
“I’LL NEVER BE ANYBODY’S HERO NOW”
Well Scott, look how that’s turned out, United wouldn’t give Tevez longer to decide if he wanted to stay, we had 2 years to offer him a deal and we did it when Ronaldo was leaving, he didn’t have enough time to decide and so we pulled out of the deal, oh yeah, Tevez is the bad guy eh? I still like the bloke, sure he moaned but so did Ronaldo yet we all accepted him leaving despite his heart being in Manchester. Tevez moaned because he really doesn’t know better, he just said what he felt and he’s right, he was second best last season, in his first season he did alot more for us than Berbatov did despite at one point being our only fit striker, he scored crucial goals for us over and over to keep us in the running so he’s right to feel annoyed when he can have a storming game then be benched whereas Berbatov can have a shitter yet start next game, he’s been treated like crap and he’s not entirely to blame.
Wow, NickOGS here to bitch. That is SO unlike you. It’s not as if the only time you post on here is to have a bitch is it? And you’re telling me to grow up?
He is third choice. He’s been third choice all season whilst he’s been telling us how much he loves us and how much he wants to stay. He’s been offered a 5-year-deal with the Champions, a club who he said he loved, with fans who he said he loved, and he turned it down. If I want to be pissed off about that, I will be, and it’s nothing to do with immaturity.
See you next time! Unhealthy obsession? I’d say so.
Mic – we gave him 10 days to decide. If within 10 days of thinking about £90k a week and a 5 year deal he’s “not sure” about us, then that’s the end of the story. He either wants to play for us or he doesn’t, and if he wanted to, he’d have known that without needing more than 10 days to think about it.
obviously i think the team has done enough to try sign him and now its all his fault. he complained the lack of opportunities, which he should be able to see better with the departure of Ronaldo. his damned agent complained that we didnt meet his offer, but we did (and i bet the personal terms we offer arent bad at all). the team and Sir Alex did all they could to sign him and now he’s off to City for probably the same reason as Barry – Money.
Get over the loss of Ronaldo and Tevez. I have expected the squad to fall apart after the UCL finals, but only to make way for a better squad of the next era.
Get Benzema, David Silva and De Rossi and we start from there.
@NickOGS20
Please read properly. We are not sad Tevez is not signed up, we are in fact very happy, so before you make any comments asking someone to grow up, please learn how to read first
seriously nick, what are you on? how is it immature to want a player to f*ck off after all the sh*te tevez has pulled towards the end of this season? you’d rather have him start over rooney and berba? i know i wouldn’t. explain how we are being immature over him turning down a hugely lucrative contract from the club and fans that he ‘loves’? frankly, we are better of spending the 25 mil on someone who is worthy of the united shirt. carlos, i hate to say it, but you have lost that privilege in my eyes.
Mic,
Tevez & Berbatov both played about the same number of games, their stats tell the whole story.
How has the club done wrong in waiting until the summer to offer a deal? As it turned out, our team got turned over by Barcelona, and had we signed up Tevez before that game, we would have been stuck with players, making the change of the team more difficult. Now we have 2 slots in the team free for new faces which could help change our style which was becoming stale. So my opinion, the decision for not offering a contract earlier was a brilliant move. It has given us room for improvement, which would have been restricted had Tevez signed
Mic – FFS mate, the difference with Ronaldo is, that he made no bones about the fact he wanted to go to Madrid. It was his boyhood dream, and his Dad told him before he died, that he would play for Madrid. So he believed Madrid was his destiny. He gave United 6 years of excellent stuff. Tevez has always maintained that his dream was to play for Man United. He was here on loan! Now that we didn’t buy him outright, should tell you that SAF wasn’t entirely sure of him. Ronaldo wasn’t orchestrating the fans either, to get their allegiance in what his slave owners saw as a war with Man United Management. Tevez won over the fans, the same fans who greatly disrespected SAf IN THEIR MISGUIDED support of Tevez. If he really wanted to play for Man UNited, why the fuck did he need time, ever thought that one through mate?
Aaaaaah so the truth is coming out now eh? It wasn’t that Tevez decided he really wanted to go, but thet Man United (the greatest club on the planet), decided that they weren’t going to allow Tevez or rather his slave owner to yank the club’s chain anymore. WE ARE MANCHESTER UNITED. Mess us about and your fucked. Sorry Scott for the colourful but passionate language – haha!
I kind of wanted this to happen because of all the drama Tevez had created at the end of the season. I want to use this money to buy Benzema for 30 mills. We planned on splashing 25 mills on Tevez and giving him huge wages, if we sell Campbell for 6 mills we’ve got 31 mills and we can use that to buy Benzema. And we still got the 80mills from the Ronaldo sale…sweet!
Haven’t read the article fully but bye, bye Tevez – you wont be missed.
Scott: “See you next time! Unhealthy obsession? I’d say so.”
Unhealthy obsession? I’d say the continued flak aimed at Ronaldo and Tevez is more of an unhealthy obsession but whatever floats your boat.
People need to get their head around the fact players don’t see Manchester United as we do, unless they were born and raised as Reds as we are. We can’t and shouldn’t expect them to act as we’d like to think we would in their boots.
Tevez would have signed in an instant last summer if we’d tried to get him permanently, I think that much is clear. We decided not to – taking a risk. That risk was made greater by him going from first-choice to essentially first-reserve – he started one game in the CL knockout stages for example. If we’re taking the risk of leaving the possibility of signing him until now, when other clubs can also make offers, it probably wasn’t particularly prudent to dent his pride and make him not feel particularly wanted. Hence why I have no issue with him moving on wherever he wants to now. City’s a poor choice personally and it’s clear he’s incredibly badly advised by Joorabchian, but it’s not our place to say where he should go.
Maybe it’s an age thing, I don’t know how old certain people are, but the toys out of the pram stuff whenever a player leaves or says something that could be construed as negative etc is all a bit embarrassing. He’s gone, he deserves recognition for what he did for us while he was here, it’s embarrassing to now see people calling him a cunt, deciding now is the time to say “oh, well, we never wanted him anyway! he’s actually rubbish!” when they certainly weren’t saying it a year ago. Show a bit of class. By all means hope he and City have a mutually disappointing time together but let’s not wallow in bitterness like our blue chums across the city.
I’m actually of the view it’s better than he’s left, we need something different upfront, we need to freshen things up, and SAF will do that. So let’s look forward with optimism rather than indulging in the constant negativity, bitching and childish nonsense that is far too prevalent both over this and Ronaldo.
Nick – did you even bother to read what I wrote? It’s nice to see that you can actually respond to a point of view without being so catty though.
Plenty of players go through their careers without forming any particularly strong bonds with the club. Whilst Wayne Rooney and Patrice Evra are happy to show their committed feelings to United, it’s not an expectation. Some players are there to do their job, to play well and to win medals, and that’s alright. Tevez could have been one of those players, but he chose to reach out to the fans and form a relationship with us. So strong was that relationship that some opted to disrespect the manager in favour of showing their support for him.
I have no expectation on players to come to United and love the club like we do. My problem with Tevez is him making us believe that’s how he felt. Michael Carrick, for example, doesn’t talk to the press about how much he loves United and our fans, and that’s fair enough. One day he might leave for whatever reason and we won’t be thinking “You bastard!” for it. But Tevez spoke to the press time and again about his feelings for us, whilst being third choice, whilst no permanent deal was agreed, then he leaves.
End of the day, the club made him a good offer, and if he’d been speaking the truth about his feelings, he would have accepted it. My problem is not that he’s left, it’s that he tried to use the fans as a bargaining tool to put pressure on the club, and then fucked them off anyway. It was embarrassing to hear our fans on the last home game of the season and that embarrassment has just trebled! He could have got on about his business like Carrick, Saha, Nani or any other player… but he didn’t. He’s the one that said he loved us, we didn’t put that expectation on him to do so.
Tevez was out of order during the Arsenal game, taking ages to leave the pitch basking in the fans adulation when we still hadn’t won the league. He seems to think it had become the players’ show at United and not the team. Fuck that. And as for the final flurry, saying Fergi got his tactics wrong against Barca, well that’s Adios from me on that one. Good player, shit advisors, but ultimately not good enough to be considered invaluable by the boss. The rest is just detail. Good luck to him, but this whole transfer saga smells very fishy to me, and I for one will take the United side on who got the better deal.
Scott – that’s just far too simplistic a view of things for me to go along with.
Yes Tevez built and then played on a great rapport with the fans. Personally I believe that was genuine, and that he was enjoying playing with the club. I think he’d have signed for us in the blink of an eye last summer. But clearly he hasn’t enjoyed his second season at the club anywhere near as much, and I can’t and don’t expect him to ignore that purely because of the fans.
It’s not the best analogy, but it’s like if he was an office worker who really got on with his colleagues, but felt he wasn’t really wanted by the managers and wasn’t ever going to fulfil his potential with that company. Does he stay just because he has a decent bit of banter during the day and gets on with everyone, or does he go somewhere else where he might feel more wanted, might fulfil his potential, and may well end up building a similar bond with those colleagues?
It’s just not as simple to me as ‘the club made an offer, if he’d meant what he said in the past he’d sign it’. Things change, we don’t know the full details of this offer (it seems that it had a deadline for starters, hardly a sign of wanting the player desperately), to be honest I’m not entirely convinced the club really wanted Tevez to stay. This strikes me as an offer that they knew had come too late and came with unacceptable conditions, but the fans would see an offer being put in, Tevez rejecting it and would thus heap all the blame on the player. Quite clever, and (if that is the case) it’s working an absolute treat.
Like I said, I don’t expect everyone to be lauding his decision, wishing him a tearful farewell or hoping he tears it up with City. I do, perhaps naively, expect some recognition and respect for what he has contributed to two immensely successful seasons for us, and I’d hope that in time people will start to see that.
Departure of Ronaldo (I wanted him to leave since a long time, I do not care about how good he is) and Tevez did not make me feel good, but I am not much disappointed either. Rooney deserves that central striking role and I don’t care if he takes a season to adapt to it. I would prefer Benzema instead of Berbatov and Giovinco on the left. Giovinco is a fantastic player! Any opinions on that?
Tevez has been brilliant for us, he had a good first sason considering he had no pre-season with us. Then before we bought brbatov (complete fucking watse of money) he was the player that was making u tick. He score vital goals that won us the league in both seasons. WE fucked him about haggling over a set fee. No wonder he got fed up with it. He wants to play somewhere he’s appreciated
Nick0GSTO, what a bloody shame, poor ole Carlos Tevez, disrepected so much by Man Utd. The club who went to court and fought tooth and bloody nail to get him sorted to join the club in the 1st place. Tevez BIG problem, he couldn’t handle sitting on the bench, that is it END OF. Well tough bloody titties!
Tevez is a Judas Scum and all this nonsense about not joining Liverpool but then saying he is considering city shows just how stupid he is. I would burn a Tevez shirt if I had one now, Heinze mark 2?
NickOGS – We offered a sum of money that would make him the most expensive player in British history. How can you argue we didn’t really want him?
We did? How? £25.5m is less than Berbatov, Rooney, Ferdinand, Veron, Shevchenko…
@NickOGS20:
It was going to be added to the 6 million we already gave for him 2 years ago. That’s what would have made him the biggest signing in the club’s history.But he didn’t deserve to be more expensive than the players that you mentioned anyway.
I don’t think this was about more money but more playing time, perhaps Tevez feels he’s a better player than one whose brought in to be an impact player. I knew he would be going no matter what because his point of contention was not being given more time to play. What bothers me is he went out like with no class, he resorted to making silly comments in the media rather than deciding to leave but doing so with respect for the fans who sang for him and the club that allowed him to earn league and European glory. Well he can piss of to The Massive and get all of the starts he wants and learn that 10th place is 10th place regardless if you start or not.
To quote NickOGS20…..
“To be honest I’m not entirely convinced the club really wanted Tevez to stay”.
I agree with you 100% Nick. I think if Fergie had REALLY wanted the player to stay, the player WOULD have stayed and a deal would have been sorted a long time ago. The signing of Berbatov was the straw that broke the camels back in Tevez’s case and i think even back then in September, he knew his time was up at Old Trafford.
Costas – the loan and any permanent transfer are entirely different transactions – we’re not getting the loan fee back now we’re not signing him are we?
The money we offered meant we would have paid £34.5m for him in total. Why on earth would United offer to pay £34.5m for a player we didn’t really want? As Kia conceded, what we offered Tevez was a great deal. He would be one of our top earners, certainly earning more than the likes of Fletcher, Carrick, Vidic etc. Why would we do that if we didn’t really want him? That makes NO SENSE whatsoever.
Another mercenary Argie bites the dust. Fuck him. His behaviour at Old Trafford against Arsenal was both disgraceful and embarrasing. I can safely say I was NOT one of these plastics that chanted “Fergie, Fergie sign him up” over the top of Sir Alex’s speech. I am glad he has not accepted our offer as there is no way he deserves that kind of package. The highest paid United player. Who does he think he is?
Take a leaf out of our reserves managers book pal. Ole has more class in his little finger than that mercenary little cunt. We all sound bitter and it is probably amusing to the dippers and Citeh but it is not bitterness. Just a reluctance to spend £25+ million and make him our highest earner for a return of 5 league goals. He ain’t worth it and the way he has engineered to get the fans onside at the expense of the club’s integrity and Sir Alex it just does not sit well. Onwards and upwards now for next season. I cannot wait. He will not get any response from me next season.
NickOGS20: I think its a matter of how highly Kia rates him.The buyout clause for us was 26 million because we already payed the 6(or 9 whatever it was)million.If he pimps him to City,he won’t ask for 26million.He will ask for 32million.In this case i think we have to look at the fee as a whole.
I don’t understand what this arguement is about, since we all think it is a good thing Tevez didn’t sign. Let’s leave it at that, peace & period
Please don’t forget that at board level we have handled this whole situation horrendously. Everybody knew the terms and we have made all the right noises at completely the wrong time. We gave him ten days to consider an offer and then pulled it from the table.
He put everything he had into his performances, good luck to him wherever he goes.
Wow… So many comments made! Personally… Good riddance Tevez! He’s not worth the bother nor the money and we can buy someone that’s younger, more talented and for sure not so bloody selfish!