Manchester United made an offer to break the British transfer record in order to sign Carlos Tevez but the player rejected their offer. Whilst Tevez is certainly a good player, who makes up for some of his failings with his hard work and good attitude on the field, he is not worthy of being the most expensive player in British history. Regardless, the club were happy to pay that in the end, showing how much they wanted him, after spending a long time trying to talk Kia Joorabchian to accept a fee that was more fitting of Tevez’s ability.
Joorabchian has spoken to the press today claiming that Tevez is very disappointed and sad but his next destination with be one of United’s rivals, City or Chelsea.
“I don’t think it’s correct to say ‘his face doesn’t fit’. He was very much a part of the Manchester United team the last two years but clearly the last one year he’s been very disappointed,” said Joorabchian. “I think he’s been even more disappointed that it has to come to the fact that the loan deal finishes. If it was, let’s say, Wayne Rooney’s contract finishing six months before, or Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract finishing six months before, would they have offered a better deal to them at that time or would they have tried to secure their services a bit sooner? He has that little bit of a feeling that maybe he wasn’t the most wanted person at United. Rightly or wrongly, that’s how he feels.”
Wayne Rooney is a much better player than Tevez. Cristiano Ronaldo is a much better player than Tevez. For Tevez to expect his status in the club to be as prominent as Rooney or Ronaldo, then our problem is very clear. He rates himself as much better and much more important than he actually is.
It is also important to note that Tevez’s situation was very different to the other players at the club. Before offering him any kind of deal they needed to work out the massively inflated transfer fee. Sir Alex Ferguson had reassured Tevez that he was wanted, but that we couldn’t just throw money about, and Tevez had repeatedly claimed he was only thinking about staying at United. It could have been easy.
“I personally think United made a fantastic contribution to try to secure him with a last-ditch offer but I think it was a little bit too late and there wasn’t enough time for Carlos to think about it,” Joorabchian added. “I think Carlos is not happy, he’s a little bit sad. “He’s had two years at club and enjoyed two great years. They’ve won two Premier League titles, one Champions League title, one Carling Cup in his time and he’s quite sad. They didn’t really give him any offers for two years. Over the duration of two years there was a lot of talk about signing him but we never actually got to the point of actually receiving any offers for him. The offer of Manchester United was a very good offer. It came about 10 days ago. It was the loan price of £9million plus the final option price of £25.5million. They made him a good contract but Carlos needed time. I want to make it very, very clear: we never ever at any time asked them for more money, or any kind of money – never at any point during the last two years. Even after they made their offer we never asked for more money. We never spoke about that. I think Carlos just felt over the last two years they hadn’t made the effort to sign him and he needed a little bit of time. I think they were under a time restraint with all the situation that was going on and we couldn’t get there in time.”
If ten days isn’t enough time for a player to decide they would rather play for United over City, then it is clear that their future cannot be at Old Trafford. So if not Old Trafford, where? The council house? Stamford Bridge?
“He has a lot of respect and a lot of love for the fans of Man United and I think he would rule Liverpool out as being the biggest competitor,” Kia said. “City and Chelsea probably would be the two clubs that are on the table.”
So he has enough love and respect for us not to join Liverpool, but title rivals and local rivals are fine. Get it. How fucking disappointing that the story of a player we adored could end up like this.
Who’s that man from Argentina?
Who’s that man we all abhor?
Played with Rooney, played with Wes
Now Ireland and Craig instead
And no longer for United he will score.
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To be honest I’m glad we didn’t throw crazy money at him. Lets face it, Tevez has never been the most prolific scorer (not in England, not in Brazil, and not even in Argentina). For the type of money that rat advisor of his wanted we can easily get a true goal scorer…
hell, lets use half that money to tempt Huntelaar to united (matter of fact, why on earth didn’t we demand Huntelaar or Robben as part exchange for Ronaldo???!!)
Anyway…thankfully Tevez and Ronaldo are gone and we are up 100 million in funds. Not only will it help the clubs debt but it will also give our youngsters an opportunity to prove themselves.
We might find it hard to replace them, but i think given the current economic situation it’s better we wait for the right type of player to come about rather then spend silly money on the likes of Benzema who could just as easily ask for a transfer after we turn him into a worldclass player.
Next season’s gonna be a tough one, there’s no doubt about that…but at least it will give some of our so called ‘lesser’ stars to step up and prove themselves.
Roll of SAF’s fourth revolution…
my god , kia you are scum ! I dont know what kind of excuses he thinks these are , but tevez is no more than another money grabber. If he goes to the bitters all the better , going from a champions league final to challenging for a place in the europa league . barry > bellamy > tevez … what a loyal team
Madness!
Okay hes just confused me even more!
im sick of the people trying to take advantage of our club, nationality isnt an issue with united
loyalty and desire to play for the club is
why speak about tevez and ronaldo they are gone? thank you and bad luck to both of them. hope they end up like ronaldinho and shevchenko
fuck tevez
the way i see it united have 80 million and are willin to spend
they wanted tevez
he pissed on every fan that chanted his name
fine
piss off
long story short lets not dwell lets see where else we can spend that money on a player thats worth that money
“If ten days isn’t enough time for a player to decide they would rather play for United over City, then it is clear that their future cannot be at Old Trafford.”
No more needs to be said. And don’t lie Kia. You were made offers and you just ignoed them. All the talk in the past 6 months has been about Gill trying to lower the price,so how can there not been any offers?If i would give Carlos and advice, i would say get this leech of your back.But quite frankly, i don’t give a fuck about him anymore.
why speak about tevez ? this man made most if not all united fans look like fools . its the topic of the day tbh . gotta hate tiny tevez , haha nice name
Its not worth getting involved with players with third party ownership. Joorabchian is a money grabber who can afford to pimp out a frankly average player for ridiculous sums. These excuses are shit as well, not feeling part of the family, what a joke.
Good bye and thanks for the memories i’m sick of argies we better steer clear of them prick cause they either do us over or flop ie veron… but on a brighter note… we have youngsters with fantastic potential and
now have 125million and top of our list should be a winger a striker and possibly a short term DM to cover for OH..
my wish list
1. David Silva ( to play LW and shift Nani to the right where he is natural and can whip in crosses with his right foot PS not run in circles trying to get on his right)
2. Karim Benzema ( young powerful quick scores goals and could bring out the best of Rooney PS even if it means Berbatov made 3rd choice sorry guys )
3. ideally De Rossi but realistic short term cover for OH is possibly Marcos Senna or Gatuso ?
hello costas how are you
bang on brother
no more needs to be said
but i will say it to everyone who shot me down about tevez being the be all and end all in the united team
and i may bring it up after every united game next season because berbatov is class
tevez is a prostitute
evras left boot
nice one on the shout for the name but from here on out after this message im back to being gotta hate tiny tears
i’m washing my hands of tevez
Tevez’s status at United is not worth comparing with that of one of Rooney and Ronaldo’s testicles Kia.Keep feeling his brains like that.He will need it at the Wastelands.Convince him that he is joining a MASSIVE club.
David Silva please
sorry 80 + 25(tevez) and 6 (campbell) = 111mil
they’ve got the tallest floodlights in the land
they’ve got the tallest floodlights in the land
they’ve got the tallest floodlights in the land
Hi GHTT.I am fine.I hope you never had Emily sing a Tevez chant.
25 not for the sale of him since we coulnt sell as he isnt ours but wat we set aside for him
80 for the traitor + 25 for mr want 6 months talk + 6 for fraz+20 for annual package=121 mill.
LETS BUY MESSI come on
@costas
emilys favourite chant was the tevez chant(had to work on it so it’d be a different one)
but she does love rooney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09SVbk8IZk
80 million for ronaldo – 25 they were to spend on the prostitute that wasnt spent + fraziers still at united = 80million
messi isn’t a traitor so we would never get him unless barca push him out like how ac did with kaka… but how about david silva for 25 mil
Lovely video GHTT.She is very cute.Especially when you mentioned Liverpool!
I agree, I’m glad we didn’t spend that amount on Tevez in the end. I don’t want players at our club which aren’t sure whether they want to stay in the first place. Tevez is a hypocrite with all his declarations in the press stating his love for the club, love for the fans and wanting to stay. But in the end it wasn’t enough for him. He must have realized his situation wasn’t normal since United weren’t negotiating with another team about his transfer, but with a business man from Iran. But for United to come through in the end, willing to splash this amount on Tevez and give him 10 days to answer is just amazing in my opinion, Tevez should be flattered, not soreheaded.
We’ll have no trouble replacing Tevez. He can fuck off to Shitty or Chelsea (where he’ll probably not get any more playing time than at United)
Marko Marin
man she doesnt like liverpool
the discused on emily face when i ask her about them makes me proud to be a daddy
david silva
David Silva for number 7
DS7 even sounds cool
Well done GHTT.You raised her well.
I agree.We have to get Silva.
tried to come up with a good chant but it doesnt rhyme
he plays on the left
he plays on the right
that boy silva
also plays centre midfield in an attacking role
ill keep working on it
What an idiot. There’s a world of difference between renewing Rooney’s contract and SIGNING UP Tevez like uh, one is already our player whilst we have an option to wait and see if we’re satisfied with Tevez before signing him up? He needed time? Nine days is enough time, even if we were signing a totally new player, it’d probably take more than nine days for the personal stuff to be sorted out. He’s just trying to save face with this, City offered the most and that’s where he’s heading.
how about hernanes or perrotti to replace scholes?
pablo hernandez is another very talented guy who nobody mentionned?
ever banega for dm yet another good buy i think?
How about this?
he plays on the left
he plays on the right
that boy Silva
makes Tevez looks shite
Blame that fkin cunt Grabchin or whatever his name is I feel very dissapointed that its com to this.I personally dont think he was worth 32 mil .We need to get some serious talent in the window to replace what we lost and the fading lights of scholes neville and giggs,on the Benzema issue we know he wants to go to Real but lets not let this deter us lets get him for 30-35mil(if need be) now and then flog him to them cunts in spain 6 years down the line for who knows maybe 100mil .After having witnessed what Real have done this summer I really want Barca to fuck them up evenmore .About MESSI hes not a 2 faced mercenary so he would neva consider leaveing Barca he is their version of Giggs .On replacing ronaldo maybe taking a punt on Udineses Alexis Sanches ?
How about this…for Tevez
He runs down the left
He runs downt he rig-gh-ht…
That boy Tevez,
Couldnt score an header even when wearing a Fez.
…………
Im glad we didnt pay 25 mil for a 50p head…
Get someone else in who is worthy of that price tag..
Loyalty and Argies do not mix … end of.
i feel sorry for evra and park though great buddies they were with tevez
yeah but he still can do a scholes
that needs to be in a chant
if you’ve a player that has the tools to live up to paul scholes then it would have to be in a david silva chant
like it is in a carrick chant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbjebkJAKFI
p.s. fuck tevez
I liked Tevez, he played an important role in the season 07/08 but i was never one of the people chanting Fergie sign him up. He has done ok, actually for the initial £6 million he has done very well but he cannot be worth £26 million. The only problem is that there aren’t many people who can come in to the team now, and i doubt anyone like Benzema will be happy to spend a lot of time on the bench.
but if ya do fuck tevez dont forget to pay kia the pimp
ive a chant(like eric the king)
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee spit our
drinks
are drink are drinks
at kia the pimp the pimp the pimp
Now i like that one Tiny mate
how about
he plays on the left
he plays on the right
watch david silva slip in another pass!
lol i hope we sign him up “DS7″
Fuck, i’m going to have to put up with gloating bitters all summer.
This Kia and Tevez story simply stinks. Their excuses are pathetic. It is about money and nothing else. Tevez’s intention was clear when we won the title. Fairly soon he replaced red jersey with the Argentinian one. (He could have used his national flag alonside United colours like other players did)
I also do not buy the claim that he did not go to Looserpool FC out of respect for us. That is plain bull shit. It is obvious that Scousers could not afford him or offer him better terms than Man Shity or Chelsea rent boys, otherwise he would have walked all the way to Liverpool.
I hope he rots in the council house.
Fergie will get the players that we need. We will still be the team to beat next year.
I’m with you on this one Scott – I’ll be sad to see him not playing in the red shirt of Manchester United next season but the shear amount of money we would have had to shell out for him doesn’t represent value for money in my opinion.
Tevez for us is history and thats never been one of my favourite subjects so lets fuck it. Bdw love the new chant mate
Just cheap excuses from Kia … Trying to blame United. That’s really sad …
If Kia would have wanted Tevez to sign for us he would have lowered his demands. He didn’t even lower them for 1 pence! (‘The Club agreed to pay the option price of £25.5m’)!
I bet Tevez will move clubs again in 1/2 years – and Kia will again find a way to cash in big time …
Something to think about:
The offer for Ronaldo was accepted on June 11th. But 10 days ago was June 10th! Therefore we even wanted Tevez to sign before selling Ronaldo!
So Kia & Tevez can’t even say that United only wanted to tie up the deal after selling Ronaldo …
@Xyth
The answer to 99% of all questions is MONEY ! (The other 1% is women)
Why did Tevez not sign for United ?
Why did Tevez not go to Liverpool ?
Why will Tevez definitely end up at Citeh ?
Why did we sell Ronaldo ?
Why wont we buy Ribery ?
Why will Lyon sell us Benzema ?
Why did Milan let Kaka leave ?
If we want someone we have to decide just how much we want them and then that will determine how much we are willing to pay. Madrid REALLY wanted Ronaldo and so they asked us to name our price. We did, it was eighty million – They wanted him that much. If we REALLY want someone then we have to do likewise. Ronaldo is arguably the best player in the world and set the bar at 80 million. Whoever we want will cost less than that. Do we really want them though ? One thing is for sure a fat bank account never scored a header so we have to spend it on something or someone that will help us to win matches.
I’ve:
1. never sang ‘Fergie. Sign him up. Fergie, Fergie sign him up’.
2. always been against the £25m deal/offer.
3. never chanted ‘Argentina, Argentina!’
Learnt my lesson from Heinze. And wod’ya know. Been proved right again by an onion-bargie!
This is my final post on Carlos Tevez. I’ve had my moan on Tritter too. End of.
To the future
If Carlos decides to join City then at least he won’t have to switch bell towers!!!!
today was a really depressing day
if i was weaker i would cry but thanks god i have a skill of holding tears :p
in 2007′s summer we were linked with players from all the nations tevez was the only one, but we weren’t linked up with him until the last days of the summer and i was a happy man when we signed as we signed probably my top favourite non manutd player, when he scored that header against chelsea i screamed my throat when Carlos formed a killing partnership with Wayne that tore boro and aston villa apart, the moment he scored against liverpool the moment he scored that late goal against lyon, the moment we won the ucl, god those were days a days to remember
this season he was something different i fought stood and made my way clear that i would rather play tevez than berba who is actually a better player but my love for tevez is unlimited but in january he started to moan and sulk but i didn’t lose faith in him
now he turned us down because we didn’t gave him time?
and how stupid he is? don’t he know that citteh our biggest rival ?
am really disappointed with tevez but am tossed i can’t decide weather to turn my back on him or not
i still like him but if he likes us as he claims he should join a non-rival club like returning to Westham or leaving the whole league
i will hate him if he joins city but i will still love him so now i am suffering a mental disease because of you tevez
fuck you tevez and good luck
So much for Tevez’s love of United fans!!! How much bullshit do we have to put up with from these prima donnas? Winker, or is that Wnaker Ronaldo lying through his back teeth now Tevez.
The reality is Joorabchian will make more money of of a deal with Chel$ki or Citeh and there we have it in a nutshell. Third party ownership is the player selling themselves into slavery is ridiculous.
I believe Tevez, like his ex compatriot Winker Ronald will not shine as he has at Old Trafford, nor will he get more ‘minutes on the field’ than he has with Manchester United, he’s just not that good, a grafter yes, but sadly not a goal scorer which is what Manchester United need.
If he goes to Citeh, with all their ‘star players’, inports and billions of £’s to throw at ‘Wastelands’, he will not impress as the other ‘imports’ have not.
Best Manchester United hang on to the £25.5 million and get a better player, in fact why spend it at all replacing ‘money means nothing to me’ Tevez. There are plenty of upcoming stars including Tosic who I believe will shine in the company of Rooney, Berbatov Etc and with the current back line, WOW the mind boggles. The Scousers & Rent Boys may have designs on the Premier League title, and are already making noises, but for the fourth year in a row I feel that the P/L title will be in the Manchester United trophy case for another year.
u having a laugh tevez, take a step down the the ladder, a five year contract, one of highest paid players at the club, whats to think about, fuck off til citeh, fuck off kia, GREED.
Ten days to consider a 5-yr, 100k/week job at the club you love, not enough? It’ll take me 10s
If united had put a time constraint on him deciding, surely that must mean they’ve lined up someone else and want to move on them ASAP and not have tevez dilly dallying around.
if the club meant that much to him he’d of signed, i dont understand how any player has to “think” about whether or not he signs for one of the best teams in the world.
i always said Tevez was a good player but i wouldnt want Fergie to pay 30m for him as he is not the complete striker. he works harder than any striker but united need someone who can score 25+ goals a season and tevez would not give that to united. i would take a gamble on Micheal Owen for free, as we know he can score the goals and just have to keep him fit, or even Huntelaar for around 15m.
personally i think theres only one player who could possible replace Ronaldo and that is Sergio Aguero.he can score goals, is a great dribbler and is one of the only players in the world who could replicate Ronaldo’s success.
i also agree that Benzema is a goal scorer but he would want to play in every game and wouldnt like being on the bench meaning we would have to drop berbatov which is highly unlikely for a 30 million signing, therefore i think fergie should try to sign a young striker who could turn out to be world class like Mario Balotelli. i think David Silva is an excellent player but he would not get us the goals that Ronaldo did and Fergie would have to replace him with a goalscorer to do that.
In my opinion Nani will step his game up this year and show everyone his true potential. i dont think hes a bad player as he can shoot, cross a ball , has speed and strength to go past a player. i think with a few games under his belt will give him the confidence and Ronaldo started showing his ability in his third season.
I liked Tevez. Not to the extent of doubting Fergie, but his hard work won me over. I never had illusions about his ability, though. He was not world class. But I would’ve been happy if Fergie signed him permanently a few months ago.
Fortunately we got to see his true colours before that happened. Bye Carlos.
Liverpool was ruled out for money reasons… his departure for the same reason.
if he thinks 2 premier league titles and a champions league trophy is enough for his carrier,then let it be.let him fuck of to wherever he wants,i wouldnt mind a bit if he goes to liverpool.my only concern is players we have,players coming through the ranks and players who we could sign,not the ones who goes out.one day he will tell his grandchildren the story how he snubbed United for couple of extra millions and went on to win fuck all.
let’s not buy any new players – let’s build with what we’ve got and show that a team of players wanting to play for Utd is the key to our success
£80 million could be used to lower ticket prices…
Why not give £80 million to the schools in the greater manchester area to help for a future Utd team – wouldn’t that make the legacy of Ronaldo amazing and make a point as well
Free tea & pies at half time next season?
Or we could give it to Berbatov and Fergie to apologise for how some of our fans behaved towards them last season!
The support for Tevez always felt like supporting England to me – it was based on a weak definition of what football should be all about.
Give the £80 million to Nev – he could do an even bigger United flowerbed!
Tevez, thanks for your contributions to our success over the last two seasons, now fuck off. Now the reason I say this is because of his apalling attitude towards United towards the end of his career – mouthing off to the press and bad mouthing Fergie after the European Cup Final. I’m fed up with these greedy cunts who are content on bleeding the club for every penny they can get their hands on. I can easily say this as I am a United fan, but how much time do you need to accept a contract at United!? The club win trophies year in year out, have a great fan base, pay handsome wages and bonuses and more importantly, have a rich history and heritage. He is only going elsewhere for more money and he can kid himself if he thinks he will win more medals at another club then he would of done at United. Good riddance you ungrateful man, have fun playing week in week out with mediocre players.
Ten days to make his mind up,he’s been here for 2 years to get settled in so if United matched the asking price he is going for more wages probably at city unless he knows who United are after bringing in and he realizes he wont get anymore gametime in
i think it will be a mistake to leave united. Tevez is being too emotional and sentimental. Oi boy! grow up!!!!
£34.5 million for a player who scored us 5 league goals last year? Really????
The reason he ruled out the Scousers is because they’re skint and he wouldn’t play there either, not because he’s loyal like that.