Carlos Tevez returned to Argentina during the week off he had been granted by the club, set for a return to play in the first leg of our semi-final against Derby on Wednesday.
Last night, reports emerged showing Tevez to be incredibly frustrated with Sir Alex Ferguson and his contract status. He went as far as to claim he would accept an offer from any club who offered him a good five years, with all clubs now being on equal footing.
What sparked his frustration was news that Ferguson had said Tevez had turned down a massive salary, wanting to be paid as much as the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo. It was all over the papers that Tevez was demanding a huge sum of money or else he was off to Real Madrid.
Ferguson later clarified that talks had yet to begin, showing the story of Tevez’s wage demands was completely fabricated. It appears the fact that it was the journo lying and not Ferguson hadn’t reached Tevez before his interview on the radio.
“No. Tevez just wanted to clarify that he hadn’t received an offer,” said Joorabchian. “Everything’s fine. He gets on very well with Ferguson. Everything started with a lie written by an English journalist who wrote that Ferguson had said they made an offer. The truth is there are no problems and he’s going to carry on playing for Manchester United until at least the end of the season.”
With agents so often getting in the way and causing trouble, it’s somewhat of a relief to see Kia Joorabchian trying to resolve the situation.
Oh, but wait.
“A permanent deal?” he added. “It’s hard to know, but from my experience I’d say that anything can happen. Plenty of clubs want him, but I can’t name them.”
United need to sit Tevez down, sooner rather than later, and explain everything that has been going on. Whatever the reason for stalling, they need to make it clear to Tevez that he is wanted.
Still, we looked as though we were fighting a losing battle yesterday, however Tevez’s agent and the club will have now put Tevez straight on the false newspaper story.
This is better news but I don’t think any of us will be able to relax on the issue until a formal contract is offered.
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Lets sit back and see what happen. In Fergie we trust. No more comments from me on this.
Argentina! Another hatrick please
I am with DanS on this. In Fergie we trust!
The really annoying this about signing Tevez is this quote…
“I will sign my last contract, and then I figure that I’ll go back to Boca [Juniors]. That could be in four or five years.”
Now come on, I love Tevez as much as the next guy but £30 million for 4/5 years of Tevez, is it really worth it if he’ll leave on a free? I know we paid alot for Berbatov but as he doesn’t have pace I can see him playing nicely into his 30s and if he was to leave at least we could sell him.
This has happened on too many times recently.A player of ours once he is abroad will give an interview at a foreign paper where he makes controversial comments about the manager or the club.Once he is back at Manchester he says that the comments were taken out of context.It is ridiculous.I understand Carlos but if he has a problem with the manager he should settle it behind closed doors.I remember back in October that he said in a foreign newspaper that his lack of goals were down to Ferguson’s tactics.Of course he denied that comment.To SAF i would say:tell the player the situation as it is and don’t put words in his mouth.To Carlos i would say:let your football do the talking.
To Costas
I think you should try to understand the situation first. Tevez made the angry statement in response to a statement that said Fergie said Tevez rejected a big offer.
The problem here is not Tevez, not Fergie. It’s the reporter. And it is often the newspapers trying to sell their crap with hot stories about the hottest club in the world, Manchester United! Because any news on MUFC sells.
So just relax. Like Dans and King Eric said, in Fergie we trust.
To Mic
I think it’s great that a football player still wants to play for his old club before he’s too old to see the ball (He’ll be 29 or 30 in 5 years), mostly because his old club really can’t pay what he should be earning.
I think the solution is this: Kill Joorabchian. That’s it. After that we’ll be seeing that contract in 2 weeks.
IF Carlitos really wants to play for Boca Juniors in five years’ time then why doesn’t his money-man just arrange for a five-year rolling loan deal with UTD ? That way he can play for the best club in the world for five more, glorious years and then head back to Buenos Aires for semi-retirement.
I find it always silly when players react to unconfirmed news in the papers. Why not contact Fergie first and ask him about his words to confirm them, and then it’s maybe ok to give an interview about the subject.
ARGENTINA!
Im praying we sign the man as quickly as possible.
5 years of a passionate class player for 30mill is worth it in my opinion, its better he is playing for us rather than against us.
SIGN HIM UP!
Sir El of J (U13369175)
I said this time and time again I can’t stand berbetov has a player his attitude and his style really does not suit united, I was happy with what united had last season and people say you buy from strength but of all the positions are filled how can you buy, what really gets on my nerves is how some ppl say look at his touch his pass it’s great, well for starters I want goals out of him not the stupid flicks and tricks he can do we have scholes who does the passing, 2 I have been a fergie fan but he is slowly ticking me off to even justify saying berbetov works harder then rooney that says he needs bigger glasses, its energy and berbetov clearly has none of it he is slow mondae and almost a lightweight and his a centre half’s dream, he is Rooney and tevez without the energy and work rate. And too be honest people compare berbetov with cantona get a reality check, eric was a leader a goal scorer a match winner and a big time player berbetov has none of these qualities, cantona would at times show that pace and movement to get his goals Wimbledon 1994 a perfect example.
Would we have won the double with berbetov in the team instead of tevez not a chance in hell, tevez is vital with our midfield not dominating a player like tevez compensates that loss and he is the legs of the team which something berbetov will never be, just has rooney is the teeth of uniteds attack. where was berbetov when we were winning the double on his ass with a side that could win nothing no offence to spurs, there is a massive difference between a spurs player and a man utd player, the likes of berbetov gazza are your typical spurs players, they think they are ahead of the curve they think they are big time charley’s when in reality they are nothing but good players who could never hack it at the very top, the likes of ronaldo rooney scholes giggs tevez cantona Charlton law best keane schmeicheal pallister bruce Irwin evra vidic Ferdinand van der saar van nistlerooy Edwards set the standards of a Manchester united player, they do it week in week out, they are winners they do it on the big stage and have been there for years, berbetov will never ever will be a top man utd player and that is a fact, where was he when he was 19 20 21 all the way up to 26 moving clubs and stuck in a small club like Leverkusen, if he was that good why was he not playing in the cl final in 2002, it took a club like spurs to see he was an ok player where was Barcelona real Madrid Chelsea ac Milan inter Milan juventus for years exactly.
sorry about the top part I copied and paced my last comment which was a responce on another forum I just forget to delete the name, I just give my entire thoughts and sum up the abysmil signing which is berbetov who is not with worth 12 cents let alone 30 million, he is more of a waste of space then djemba djemba kleberson bellion combined and that ius a feet in itself, who needs berbetov when you have campbell and welbeck coming through.
Michael “he is Rooney and tevez without the energy and work rate. ”
He is a completely different player to these two!
Michael “he is more of a waste of space then djemba djemba kleberson bellion combined ”
I am sorry mate but what a load of shite. Lets give him till the end of season and then judge but as I have mentioned on various other blogs the man is class and gives United a whole different dimension. You could argue that it “was only” Southampton on Sunday but the man gave those saints players a master class in Vision, space, passing and movement. They could not even get near him. Then his assists at dippers against Stoke then his vital goal against Boro. I for one am very happy to see him at United and all you doubters will be eating their words come May. However I would love us to keep Carlos and reckon we will. In Fergie we trust!
King Eric
lol he could not even score against southampton and they were bad, look at the difference betwen torres and berbetov, torres out a while first full game fit he gets a goal, berbetov still could not score against a 10 man southampton and you dont pay 32 million for another striker who does not score on a weekly basis. look at torres and tevez how long did it take for them to settle not long and you are wrong he does exactly what rooney and tevez do drop deep to get the ball but he has not got the legs to keep up too slow too lazy and just an awful player a typical spurs player, same with fletcher and anderson the brazilian now seems to be on form fletcher not but fergie continues too play players who have not earned the right to start, we did not need a link up player we needed a central striker like andy cole that can get in behind defenders and rattle the goal david villa would have been the perfect player, we should have not spend the money wait till this summer and snap up villa. you have to realise he is not good enough for united and that’s fact he has totaly disrupted a settled side that had the attack set, we payed the price for carrying passengers and changing the shape and he will continue that trende.
Rubbish you have read and regurgitated michael…
Berba is definitly United class.. we should give the man at least a season..
remeber vida and evra took time.. new surrounding, much higher expectations.. He will get more confident and come to the fore in the 2nd half of the season.. we are united supporters and we should support him..
I just hope you all note when this thing has suddenly caught fire…..right at the beginning of the transfer window. Coincidence or clever planning by the Tevez camp to put pressure on the club to make a snap decision so he will have time to organise a move for the summer?
Its becoming more obvious each passing day that Ferguson doesn’t want to keep Tevez. There is an awful lot of backtracking going on in both camps now, even Joorabchian doesn’t know where Tevez will be next season. Tevez is a good player and if Ferguson is willing to let him go then i believe that he must have something big up his sleeve.
The problem for Tevez is that he is too similar to Rooney. What we now need is a replacement for Saha so to speak, the striker with pace to burn that will play on the shoulder of the last defender. Think about it and it makes sense, just imagine having a Torres type player to race onto them perfect Berbatov through balls. It will be a joy to watch if it comes to fruition. Then throw in Rooney and we have one hell of a strike force. Heck, maybe even Welbeck could be this player since he has got pace to burn and he linked up brilliantly with Berbatov against southampton.
” What we now need is a replacement for Saha so to speak, the striker with pace to burn that will play on the shoulder of the last defender. Think about it and it makes sense”
I DON’T DISAGREE. BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING SO I AM GUESSING THAT SAF THINKS THAT BERBATOV’S GUILE/SKILL/VISION AND BALL-RETENTION WILL BE EVEN MORE VALUABLE AGAINST TEAMS THAT START OUT WITH TEN MEN BEHIND THE BALL. I JUST WISH THAT SAF “INSTRUCTED” BERBATOV TO PLAY CENTRALLY AND FORWARD BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE’D SEE MUCH MORE ADVANTAGE TO THE TEAM IF HE DID THAT.
denton
I want a striker that is going to give defenders nightmares, who is going to be running at defenders with pace power not a slow static striker, we got rid of van nistlerooy because he did not have the mobility the legs and pace to play for united, berbetov is one of the worst forwards I have seen at united in a while. dont make excuses for this player look at van nistlerooy in his first season he had nearly 16 goals so that puts that myth to bed and at times in his last couple of seasons I was not van nistlerooys biggest fan, vidic and evra had never even played in the premiership before berbetov has, I don’t care how much fergie has won, for him to think that berbetov deserves to be playing in the team ahead of tevez he really needs to get his glasses sorted, because still uniteds best front four when everyone is fit is hargreaves and ronaldo wide with rooney and tevez upfront.
I prefer Hargreaves as a more holding midfielder.
King Eric
na hargreaves is more then a holding midfielder he is great at driving forward, he gives united something on the wings ronaldo nani park giggs dont give enough good crosses from the wings, and with the likes of carrick anderson scholes fletcher covering the central midfield I think hargreaves position has changed, he proved that in the CL
There’s no doubt in my mind that Berbatov is class. He does provide another style of play to our side. The issue is that Sir is not using his style at the right moments, and insists on using him even when he is useless.
I’ve been really disappointed and gutted that our little Argie has been relegated to the bench for so many matches because there is also no doubt in my mind that Tevez is class. Sir need to sort this out quickly before things start to boil in the dressing room. I think the situation is fairly stabilize thanks to examples set by our golden boys Scholes, Giggs and Nev with their experience, loyalty, and commitment to the club. It can only sustain for so long, therefore Sir Alex, please sort it out before it starts. Not after the fact.
Laos Red
well there was a simple formula, united should have not signed berbetov and used that money to get tevez perminently. that is why we get this speculation
Michael you prophesise like your the oracle of omaha… opinions are like aresholes we all have one… and yours is not necessarily right… correcting everyone when they rightly disagree with your panderings
1) Press will be press
2) Agents will be agents
3) Only believe it when it has happened
keanesmagichat
maybe I should not but I have one big problem with him being in our side, when I see someone who’s goalscoring record is abysmel and is not much better then tevez goals record yet ppl think berbetov is great when tevez has not started has much has him but scored just has much then there is something wrong with this player which cost 30 million. we won the double without having this lazy idiot so what was the point in signing him, is there a better attack going then ronaldo rooney tevez I dont think so.
Wait till end of the season mate then Judge.
Did Berba nail this guy’s wife of somehting? Dude’s seething at the bit, I can picture him droolin all over the keyboard, shaking like a junkie tryin to type all that.
Easy there take a breath it’ll be alright
blindkat: nice one pal. ha ha
blindkat
ha very funny, well remember what happened when chelsea signed a certain shevchenckho and ballack how have they done since exactly, how did united do when van nistlerooy and veron came to united the team went into decline we won one title in 6 years. and if we go backwards we all know who we can blame berbetov, and if we win nothing in terms of the big trophys it will be his fault. like the old saying dont fix something that aint broke.
Have you not seen R V N goal record for United?