The Argentineanâs controversial advisor has insisted his client is now happy in England, and would be willing to join another Premier League side. Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has been vocal on his admiration for Tevez, while the Gunners were also linked with a move in the summer, meaning Joorabchianâs latest soundbite wonât have gone unnoticed in north London. âHis family are now living in England, so he's quite happy and settled,â said Joorabchian in the Daily Mirror. âHe had some problems about being away from them before, but they are with him now and everything is fine. âHe'd be happy to move to another Premier League club.â === Would you want him? Where would he play?
No No No ! The man is a mercinary. A year ago he wanted to move back to Argentina to be with his daughters, suddenly a payrise and he was OK, then in the Summer he wanted to move back to Argentina but suddenly Italy is his prefered option. I would struggle to p##s on men like this if they were on fire...
It all depends on the price for me. I'd expect him to want to move on within a couple of seasons - so with that in mind i'd not be willing to pay over £20 million - ish. And i'd want him on a 4 year contract so as to have some form of negotiating power when he decided he wanted to move on. Despite him being a mercenary he is a very good player and with RVP and Tevez up front we'd have a very deadline strike duo (whether they played together or rotated). AW is someone who can get his players to admire him and who knows - maybe he is the man who could tame Tevez! Plus how much disruption could he cause in the dressing room in a couple of seasons at the club? All the players would know he was a bit of a nob-head already but would see him as a top quality and ambitious signing. We have had troublemakers before like Adebayor and Gallas and dealt with it (although adebayor did leave...). No doubt he'd be a fantastic player for us though - and if he ended up at Spurs i'd be pretty irritated tbh
When we signed RVP he was supposedly the biggest knob-head in the Netherlands. It's not the same gamble by any means but I'd love him at the club providing certain assurities could be ironed out. As AFCFTW said price/wages and contract length are all major factors. I'd also want it written in his contract that whenever he acts like a spoiled brat then every member of the squad was allowed to kick him in his nadgers.
Even with all his baggage i think Tevez is an asset to any team he is at. I can't imagine too many people getting upset if we saw his walk out in an Arsenal shirt in January
'I'd expect him to want to move on within a couple of seasons - so with that in mind i'd not be willing to pay over £20 million - ish. And i'd want him on a 4 year contract so as to have some form of negotiating power when he decided he wanted to move on.' Everything about this statement is what's wrong in football. If a club buy the player the player benefits from signing on fees, their agents become multi-millionaires again and the club then own the player, it is the club who should decide if/when the player is to be sold and for how much, the player should have zero say in this.
Yes Grizzly but realisticaly those players are also Human beings and therefor do have a say in what they spend there lives doing. It may not be nice, but that is how football is going these days - players do have a say in what happens with them which is why clubs need to be extra careful with the contracts they sign these players to and how much they pay for players. But despite what anyones views re on what is wrong with the game of football these days - Tevez is a great player and would be an asset to any football team in the world.
Agreed but how do you value the asset ? If he is fully committed then his talents will probably command a £40m price tag, if he demonstrates his ego/attitude, refuses to play, flies back to Argentina whenever he gets the chance, uses the media to tell the world how misunderstood and unhappy he is in Europe but conveniently then says he'd welcome a move to Italy/Spain, and you accept that he could easily destroy the team unity you've worked hard to create, what is his value then ? So as a manager and holding the clubs purse strings, do you pay £40m for him or £8.20 ?
Well AW is a pretty good economist and we are prety good at penny pinching so i'm sure we could come up with a sensible figure taking into account all the above It has been mentioned in the rumours pages going around that Corinthians are planning to come back in for Tevez but for an offer of under £16million - so maybe his price is closer to £20mill now than the £40mill mark.
If the buying club value the player at £16m and the selling value him at £40m, then there's very little chance of a deal getting done. Money clearly isn't an issue for City so they could/should make him rot in the reserves for the remainder of his contract wasting the next few years of his life in what is after all a very short career, and whilst I despite City for what they're doing to football they would get my full support if taking this action because for me the only thing worse than buying your way to success is the player power that exists....
How could we possibly get him? Even if Man City agree to sell him to us, we could never afford him in any capacity. The proof is we haven't bought a top line player since.................................Dennis Bergkamp. Now i had to think long and hard about that one!
@Grizzly - despite money being no object to the owners - i'm sure that for the FFP rules having a player on 250k p/w on the books doing nothing isn't great. And i'm sure it'd be a lot more hassle to keep him in the reserves than to have him out of the club. With his recent attitude issues he maybe isn't the most attractive player around to the market and so his value has dropped - no-one in world football is about to pay £40mil for Tevez imo. So if Corinthians are comming in wht an offer ~£16 million, then like i said, maybe his value is closer to the £20 million mark. If an offer came in at £25 million for him they may just go for it.
@lazarus2000 - i don't think any player at City expects to be on the same wages if they leave and go to any other club. I think his wages at a new club will be closer to the 100-150k contracts rather than 250k.
I'm not saying it's likely or even being considered. I just don't think anyone would complain if we got him in
As long as we didn't pin any hopes on him, Tevez could only be a good thing. When his head's in the game, he's the most feared striker in the entire league.
