Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tevez Hints At United Stay As Liverpool Offer £50 Million


Carlos Tevez’s future at Manchester United continues to polarise the tabloids, with yesterday’s reports suggesting Liverpool had dwarfed an £18 million Tottenham bid with their own £50 million offer.

While a number of premier league club’s stated their financial claims to the player, the Argentine seemed to backtrack on comments at the weekend that suggested he would certainly leave Old Trafford in the summer.

The former West Ham star said: “Maybe it will be my last game and maybe it won't, I don't know.”

Tevez’s latest claims seem to contradict his comments straight after Manchester United had won the Premier League title following their draw with Arsenal on Saturday.

Tevez spoke with Argentine TV station TYC saying: “I am not going to continue at Manchester United. I feel I have been badly treated.”

“When you don’t agree with the manager in how the club is run its best I leave so as not to clash with Alex Ferguson and the directors.”

Manchester United have made no secret of their desire to keep the diminutive striker, but not at the initial deal put in place two years ago.

Ferguson said: “Carlos has done well for us but the demands originally put to us were unrealistic. We have to be aware of the consequences of the credit crunch.”

“It’s no time to be careless about money. As far as Tevez is concerned, everybody would be best served by the willingness to compromise.”

To further confuse matters, and in light of yesterday’s reports in the Sun that suggested Tottenham had an offer rebuffed after they were told of Liverpool’s bid of £50 million which included agent fees and the player’s wages, Rafa Benitez told the Metro: “We may well break our transfer record, but certainly not Manchester United's.”

“But it does not matter about the prices, it is doing the right thing and finding the right players. The next step is to overcome Manchester United, and that is the hardest. It does all come down to the money they have been able to spend, that is the difference.”

“If we want to reduce this gap we have to be really good in the transfer market”

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