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Originally Posted by Glen2712

Bro qbdp, awesome up-to-date reports on Man Utd Transfer Affairs! Just one thought though, wat's HP?

Not too sure. In the report, HP probably meant Hire Purchase.

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United close on youngster

Manchester United are reported to have agreed a deal for Internacional youngster Rodrigo Possebon.

The 18-year-old midfielder is understood to have been watched by United for two years.

The Red Devils have now pushed through a deal for Possebon - who is looking forward to linking up with Anderson at Old Trafford.

"It is the fulfilment of a dream," he told Zero Hora. "I go there to play with Anderson."

Reports say the deal is worth 910,000 Brazilian reais (£240,000).

It is not United's first foray into the youth market in Brazil, only last year they struck a deal for Fluminese duo Rafael and Fabio - who will be eligible to move to England in 2009 when they turn 18.

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Day 4 of the Carlitos Tevez Mania

Tevez in dark on United move

Carlos Tevez says he has little information to provide regarding his proposed move to Premier League champions Manchester United.

It had been thought the Argentina international was closing in on a switch to The Red Devils on an initial two-year loan deal.

However, when asked the latest on his protracted move, Tevez, who is back home in his native South America, was unable to confirm anything.

The 23-year-old is opting to concentrate on preparing to play Peru in the Copa America quarter-finals rather than where he may be playing next term.

"I don't know anything," explained Tevez, whose controversial switch to West Ham last year continues to infuriate Sheffield United.

"I'm focused on the Copa America and don't want to think about anything else."

TEVEZ UNITED MOVE ON HOLD

CARLOS Tevez’s proposed move to Manchester United into turmoil by insisting there is no agreement in place for him to join the champions.

His representatives have been suggesting the striker’s move could be finalised in 24 hours and that he is to have a medical in Venezuela.

However, West Ham say Tevez is under contract for a further three years and no transfer can be made without agreement.

The Premier League are likely to back them.

Hammers chairman Eggert Magnusson said in a statement: “Carlos Tevez is a registered West Ham player, contracted to the club until June 2010. There is no agreement with West Ham for Carlos to leave and we expect him to return in time for the season’s preparations.

“No decision on his future can be reached without the agreement of West Ham.” The Hammers have taken legal advice and plan to contest the influence of third-party owners of the Argentina star, who is valued at £30million.

This is a dangerous game as the overseas investors could take the Hammers to court and unravel the truth of their hold over Tevez’s registration.

As it stands, the Hammers would be entitled to no more than £100,000 of the £30m loan fees and permanent transfer deal. Clearly the club are angling for a far bigger slice.

West Ham have contacted FIFA and have the backing of the Premier League.

The big issue is who really owns Tevez and Sheffield United would love this to hit the courts so they can find out the truth.

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Knight of 1,000 stars

Carlos Tevez will this week add yet more fire power to Sir Alex Ferguson’s red-hot attack. So how will United’s title rivals cope?

You can’t beat them, at least not normally, but you can join them if you impress. Sir Alex Ferguson says he has “known more scouts than Baden-Powell” but a player’s best chance of signing for Manchester United is to do well against Ferguson’s team. He has preferred spotting talent with his own eye ever since blowing his first budget at East Stirlingshire, all £1,000, on a striker named Billy Hulston who had stood out whenever Ferguson faced Clyde as a player.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Alan Smith and Louis Saha are current recruits who recommended themselves to Ferguson when they were in opposition to him. Carlos Tevez is poised to become the next. The robust opportunism of Tevez’s goal at Old Trafford in May could prove not only to have clinched West Ham’s Premiership survival, but a £100,000 per week United contract for its 23-year-old scorer. Tevez has agreed personal terms with United and, despite adopting a contrary public position, West Ham have accepted tacitly they are about to lose the player.

Both clubs are talking to the Premier League about how to structure a deal that would not breach transfer rules. As West Ham assured the League in March that they had ended all third-party agreements with Media Sports Investments (MSI) and Just Sports Inc (JSI), the companies who retain what they call Tevez’s “economic rights”, the League will be looking for West Ham to act in a way that would be expected of a club in sole ownership of a valuable player. This effectively means West Ham retaining a large part of the transfer fee, which must reflect his market value. It will be possible to pass some money on to MSI and JSI, perhaps in the form of an “agents’ commission”, but it would be considered suspicious if this exceeded £4m-£5m.

This could be a stumbling block. The Tevez camp have questioned why the Premier League did not make the same demands when Javier Mascherano left West Ham for Liverpool in January. It is understood Mascherano signed the same kind of deal at Liverpool — an initial loan with a view to a permanent move — that United have agreed for Tevez. The League did not insist on West Ham receiving anything for Mascherano but the crucial difference is that the player’s West Ham contract was ended when he moved to Anfield.

In the case of Tevez, West Ham opted to unilaterally terminate the third-party clause in his contract, allowing him to play a key role in their fight against relegation. Kia Joorabchian, Tevez’s agent, had expected the United deal to go through this week and a statement issued through his lawyers yesterday said: “Personal terms have been agreed . . . [and] the process for finalising the player’s registration with United will be undertaken in accordance with appropriate procedures.”

Now matters aren’t so clear and Joorabchian is unhappy with the Premier League’s stance. United are frustrated at the delay, but Tevez will be worth the wait. He has been in Ferguson’s mind since his first visit to Old Trafford, with Boca Juniors in 2002, when he enlivened a drab friendly with his hyperactive efforts that comprised an impressive display of running and dribbling but also the planting of an elbow in Paul Scholes’s face, for which he was sent off.

Another time United were opposed memorably may have fuelled Ferguson’s desire for Tevez, and indeed much of his team-building in recent years. United’s 3-2 and 6-5 aggregate defeats in the Champions League by Real Madrid in 2000 and 2003 made a mark on Ferguson. He has occasionally seen his sides outplayed over the course of a 33-year management career, but rarely out-attacked. The Real Madrid forward who made the greatest impact was not Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo or even Ronaldo, but Raul. In Ferguson’s view, Raul was Real’s greatest danger because, brilliant as they were, you could predict where Zidane, Figo or Ronaldo might receive the ball. Raul, in his prime, was impossible to track.

This has been the blueprint for United attackers since. Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney were bought for their flexibility and unpredictability, and Ferguson has taken Ryan Giggs, Smith and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and encouraged them to develop new positions. Tevez comes with the multiple facets already carved, a forward in the South American tradition of being equally happy to dribble, pass or shoot, and who is used alternating between striker, winger and No 10 because that is how Argentina use him.

Ferguson’s other summer recruits, Nani and Anderson, are £35m worth of apprentices: the two youngsters are likely to spend their first season being tutored in the ways of what can be called New United, although testimonies suggest they are already developed enough to make impacts if given sustained time in the first team. Their principal value, though, appears as long-term replacements for Giggs and Scholes. And these are just the flexible forwards. Ferguson still has Saha, an out-and-out No 9 should he need one. There is also Giuseppe Rossi, the Italy Under21 striker, coveted by big clubs in Serie A but unlikely to even be a bench regular should he remain in Manchester.

Scoring 123 goals in all competitions last season was obviously not enough for Ferguson. Rooney, Ronaldo, Rossi, Tevez, Nani, Anderson, Solskjaer, Smith, Scholes, Saha, Giggs. Has any manager ever collected such an array? Overall attacking prowess is another thing, for it is doubtful any club will ever exceed the levels reached by the Real Madrid of Puskas, Di Stefano and Gento, but in terms of the sheer number of quality forwards, United’s squad seems unique. Those modern Madrid teams that defeated Ferguson had serious scoring options but beyond the galacticos mentioned, there was only Guti, Fernando Morientes and, in 2000, Nicolas Anelka, taking up space. In United’s own history there was the 1967-68 European Cup-winning vintage which, as well as the trinity of Bobby Charlton, George Best and Denis Law, featured a brilliant young striker in Brian Kidd, yet the back-ups did not extend past John Aston Jr and David Herd. Today, even Frank Rijkaard at Barcelona has an attacking cast smaller than Ferguson’s, though Barça could argue Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto’o, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Deco and Javier Saviola are a platoon of marksmen they would not swap for United’s army.

If and when Tevez does join United, how will he be used? It is a mistake to try to define a United first XI because for years Ferguson hasn’t had one — or at least his substitutes have been as important as his starting lineup. Witness Solskjaer and Sheringham in 1999. Rotation has been a Ferguson policy since before the term was commonplace. Ask yourself, who were United’s “first XI” wingers from 1992-94 out of Lee Sharpe, Andrei Kanchelskis and Giggs? The answer is that Ferguson chose two from three depending on fitness, conditions and opposition, and these factors will influence who plays alongside Rooney and Ronaldo, the golden pair he will always pick if possible.

The influence of Carlos Queiroz, Ferguson’s assistant, is present in the fluid attacking strategies perfected at United since Ruud van Nistelrooy’s departure, and Tevez, like Nani and Anderson, is another Portuguese speaker. At this rate, Ferguson might abandon long-held ambitions to master French to study the other language. There is no doubt how he wants United to express themselves: with an ever noisier babble of goals.

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Day 4 of the Carlitos Tevez Mania

Tevez in dark on United move



TEVEZ UNITED MOVE ON HOLD

will he be coming ????

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Originally Posted by Mafan

will he be coming ????

Tevez (Sep 2005)

I would say yes and Tevez is 2 years late.

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WEST HAM have sensationally evicted Carlos Tevez from his London apartment, ridiculing claims they want him to stay at the club.
The Hammers are still locked in a bitter fight over Tevez joining Manchester United in another controversial loan deal.

Last week they insisted the Argentinian, loaned to them by businessman Kia Joorabchian, remains under contract until 2010 and they expected him back for pre-season training.

But I can reveal the club booted the 23 year old out of his Canary Wharf penthouse four days earlier-taking away all his personal belongings and moving in their new French signing, Julien Faubert.

Tevez was in Venezuela at the time where he's playing in the Copa America tournament. A source told me: "The first Carlos knew about it was when his agent out in South America suddenly got a phone call from West ham announcing they were moving a new player into his flat that day.

"They even asked whether Carlos could arrange for soemone to take his his possessions away-even though he was in Venezuela playing in the Copa America!

"Carlos was devastated and even now has no idea where all his belongings are. He has lived in that flat ever since he arrived in London from Corinthians and has naturally bought lots of his own things since then."

West ham chairman Eggert Magnusson is desperate for compnmesation if his Tevez's £60 million loan move to Manchester United goes ahead.

Joorabchian insists he was granted permission by the Hammers at the end of the season to find his player a new club.

I can now reveal that that four weeks ago West Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury sent an email to Tevez's lawyer, Graham Shear, granting such permission.


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A legal source said: "It is utterly preposterous for West Ham to claim they have a financial stake in Carlos. There is not a court in the land that would agree.

"Tevez even helped save them from relegation, which alone saved them around £60million for staying in the top flight.

"That's surely a brilliant return for a player they got for free."

The Premier League are monitoring the saga.

A spokesman said last night: "We continue to support West Ham in exercising their rights over the player."

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TEVEZ: I CAN'T LET FERGIE DOWN

CARLOS TEVEZ last night revealed he has promised Sir Alex Ferguson he will join Manchester United - and he will not go back on his word.

The Argentine striker is determined to complete his dream move from West Ham to Old Trafford and honour his pledge to Fergie in the same way he honoured his promise to West Ham last season.

As the most controversial transfer of the summer rumbles on, The People can exclusively reveal that:

WEST HAM did not pay a penny for Tevez because Kia Joorabchian loaned him for a year for FREE.

TEVEZ turned down lucrative offers from a Champions League playing club in Italy and another in Spain in January because he believed he could play his part in helping the Hammers avoid relegation.

WEST HAM chief executive Scott Duxbury has been talking to Manchester United lawyer Maurice Watkins for the past 48 hours in a bid to conclude the transfer of the 23-year-old.

THE deal will satisfy the Premier League because it will be no different to that of compatriot Javier Mascherano, who left West Ham to join Liverpool in January.

Speaking exclusively to The People, Tevez said: "Through my backers, I have given my word to Mr Ferguson. They have told him I'll be at Manchester United next season, and once I make a promise I don't go back on it.

"There isn't a player who would turn down this opportunity, and the negotiations are too far advanced to go back now.

"I have been open and honest with West Ham every step of the way and I hope that the fans understand.

"It will be an emotional and special day whenever I return to play them. I had two very good offers from foreign clubs in January but I refused because I had unfinished business.

"It would have been easy to move on, but I couldn't leave the club and the fans in that predicament.

"My representatives sat down with West Ham at the end of the season and once it became clear they were not going to sign me, they gave me permission to talk to other clubs, so I am surprised this is causing such a stink."

I understand Duxbury sent an email to Joorabchian's lawyer, Graham Shear, giving permission for Tevez to talk to other clubs. It also said West Ham would be kept in the loop and would have to agree the deal with the buying club.

Joorabchian finds it absurd West Ham are trying to benefit financially from the deal with Manchester United as they did not pay a penny for his registration.

Duxbury has been trying to conclude a deal with Watkins, and United have no fears it will contravene league rules because it will take the same form as Mascherano's move to Liverpool.

Duxbury didn't return our calls yesterday and West Ham press officer Miranda Nagalingam said: "We are unable to comment."

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WEST HAM have sensationally evicted Carlos Tevez from his London apartment, ridiculing claims they want him to stay at the club.
The Hammers are still locked in a bitter fight over Tevez joining Manchester United in another controversial loan deal.

Last week they insisted the Argentinian, loaned to them by businessman Kia Joorabchian, remains under contract until 2010 and they expected him back for pre-season training.

West Ham is fast becoming a real nusiance to many EPL clubs. They are already spared the axed from EPL, and now they want to throw themselves into the spotlight again...

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TEVEZ DEAL CLOSE - FERGUSON

Sir Alex Ferguson is confident £30million target Carlos Tevez will eventually end up at Manchester United.

Tevez is currently at the centre of a major transfer wrangle with present club West Ham and the Premier League refusing to sanction a move to Old Trafford even though terms have been agreed with the player's agent Kia Joorabchian.

Having only allowed Tevez to play in the final three games of last season because a so-called 'third-party agreement' between West Ham and Joorabchian had been ripped up, the Premier League are anxious the Hammers should be the main financial beneficiaries of any move.

However, Joorabchian is adamant Tevez remains his property and any financial windfall should come to him.

United legal expert Maurice Watkins has been left to find a solution to the impasse, with the Old Trafford club anxious to push through a deal quickly.

Sources close to the Red Devils are confident a compromise can be reached by the time Tevez's current commitments with Argentina at the Copa America are concluded at the weekend.

And Ferguson is certain the 23-year-old former Corinthians star will finally join his squad.

"I am sure the outcome will be that we will be taking him," said the United boss at a press conference parading new signings Owen Hargreaves and Nani.

"I thought it was going to be done by last weekend. Everything seemed perfectly okay, so the hold-up must be with the Premier League."

"Essential parts of the deal have been agreed and we hope to finalise it soon."

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Originally Posted by chickenzip

West Ham is fast becoming a real nusiance to many EPL clubs. They are already spared the axed from EPL, and now they want to throw themselves into the spotlight again...

Yes, West Ham should have been relegated. They should relegate all 4 teams. Years ago Boro was dock 10 points because they abandon/cancel a match because they do not have enough players as all are injured. Perhaps, at that time Boro should have fielded unregistered players, like that no need to kana docked 10 pts.

The Premier League has no balls to make tough decision. Look at Italy, they dare to relegate Juventus, dock AC Milan points and even delay the start of Serie A !!

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This Tevez transfer saga reminds me of the Ronaldihno transfer saga, one day news says he is coming, the day news says he is not coming and the next day coming ... not coming ... coming ... not coming ... coming ... not coming ... coming ... not coming ... coming .......... in the end, not coming Ronaldihno went to Barca instead.

Hope this time Tevez is coming

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Rivals underestimated United, says Neville

Gary Neville, the Manchester United captain, has accused the club's main Premiership title rivals of underestimating the team last season.

"Nobody thought Manchester United would win the Premier League last season," he said. "But they underestimated us. They underestimated the knowledge and class of our manager."

The 32-year-old England defender missed the closing two months of last season with an ankle injury, but is poised to make a return to the line-up for the season opener against Reading at Old Trafford on August 12.

Neville, who was speaking at a meeting of the Malta branch of the United supporters' club, believes Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea had written off United as serious title contenders in the build-up to the 2006/07 campaign, in part due to their lack of movement in the transfer market.

"For two to three years we had been in suffering," he said. "At the start of the season we added Michael Carrick to our squad and lost Ruud van Nistelrooy. But Chelsea added Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack."

United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been one of the Premiership's busiest managers in the transfer market this season. His shopping spree began with the captures of FC Porto midfielder Anderson (£8million, rising to £20.4m) and Sporting Lisbon player Nani (£8m, rising to £17.3m), before the long-awaited confirmation of Owen Hargreaves' arrival from Bayern Munich (£16.8m, rising to £20.3m).

West Ham United's Carlos Tevez has also been the subject of a United approach, although no deal has been confirmed as yet.

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FERGUSON SHOWS TEVEZ CONFIDENCE AS HE UNVEILS NEW STARS

ALEX FERGUSON said today he was confident Carlos Tevez will sign a long-term contract with Manchester United by the weekend.

Tevez is at the centre of a messy transfer saga involving United, West Ham, the Premier League and his long-time advisor Kia Joorabchian.

However, the United manager is confident Tevez will eventually be given the green light to join his squad in a transfer he feels will be completely free of the allegations which dogged the striker’s initial move to West Ham.

Speaking at a press conference to unveil new summer signings Owen Hargreaves and Nani, he said: “I am sure the outcome will be that we will be taking him, with complete clarity in the deal and no suspicions or anything dodgy."

“There is no way we will be involved in anything underhand.”

A deal, virtually identical to the one which saw Tevez’s fellow countryman Javier Mascherano move from West Ham to Liverpool in January, is in place with United, with the 23-year-old only now requiring to pass a medical and actually sign before officially becoming a £30million Red Devil.

The problem is who United actually pay the cash to, with the Premier League continuing to insist West Ham should profit as they hold Tevez’s registration.

Joorabchian counters this, insisting he still owns a controlling right in the former Corinthians star, who set up two goals in his country’s 4-0 quarter-final win over Peru in Venezuela last night.

With allegations and accusations flying about on all sides - and the validity of the Premier League’s crucial decision to let Tevez play in the last three matches of West Ham’s successful survival fight on the line - a resolution appears impossible without either legal action or the involvement of world governing body FIFA.

But sources close to United are hopeful that a compromise will have been reached by the end of the week which will allow Tevez to fly into Manchester from South America early next week to complete his dream move.

With chief executive David Gill starting a short break, Sir Alex Ferguson opted not to offer a public timescale on the situation.

United were initially offered Tevez 12 months ago but Ferguson shied away from a deal, claiming he was ’unsure’ about certain aspects of the move.

Now, he is more certain, although he is unsure exactly why the Premier League have so far refused to sanction the
transfer.

“There is transparency now and a clarity about the situation,” he said.

“I thought it was going to be done last weekend because I know (United lawyer) Maurice Watkins has been working on it for the last month, maybe more than that, to make sure everything is financially clear as far as we are concerned.

“Unless the Premier League are holding something back that they have not told us about, I don’t really know what the problem is because we are following the procedure of Javier Mascherano.”

Tevez himself, speaking after Argentina’s Copa America win over Peru, said: “There is something arranged. I have already talked to them (Man Utd) but now I want to focus only on the national team.”

If Tevez does eventually arrive, he will join Ferguson’s three other summer signings Owen Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson.

While the capture of Hargreaves from Bayern Munich represents the end of a 12 month chase, Nani’s journey to Old Trafford has taken place a year ahead of schedule, with Ferguson forced to move quickly for the Portugal Under-21 star who, like Cristiano Ronaldo, developed a big reputation at Sporting Lisbon.

“We have been monitoring Nani for almost as long as Cristiano,” said Ferguson.

“In a perfect world, he would have stayed in Portugal for another year but circumstances forced us into action.

“He is different to Cristiano in that he can play on both sides of the pitch but also in the middle. He is quick, has a terrific engine and I know we are getting a very talented, flexible player.”

With an overall outlay approaching £80million, Ferguson was quick to praise the Glazer family for backing him in the transfer market this summer.

While admitting the new, massively increased TV deal meant he felt more cash would be spent across the Premier League this summer than has actually happened, Ferguson is aware that, in some areas, his squad might be regarded as too big.

Gabriel Heinze, Alan Smith, Kieran Richardson, Giuseppe Rossi and Gerard Pique have all been linked with big-money moves away from Old Trafford.

And, although he has not told anyone they can leave, he recognises some players may choose to.

“Players understand today that in order to challenge for major trophies, you need a strong squad,” said Ferguson.

“No-one will play all the games next year and hopefully the players will accept that and get on with the business of trying to achieve success for us.

“I don’t expect anybody to leave but it may happen because some players will view the situation and think maybe they won’t get enough games to satisfy them, but there are no decisions made at the moment.”

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Ferguson posts warning for rivals as United untangle deals to land Tevez

Carlos Tévez is expected to complete his transfer to Manchester United in the next 24 hours. The Argentina forward will join the Barclays Premier League champions on an initial two-year loan, at the end of which United will have the chance to buy the player permanently for a fee that could be more than £20 million.

The deal is complicated because West Ham United do not own Tévez outright, but it is thought that the London club have agreed to hand over the player’s registration rights to United so that the transfer can be sanctioned by the Premier League.

In turn, United will pay two annual fees of about £3 million to Kia Joorabchian, the businessman whose Media Sports Investments (MSI) firm owns the economic rights to Tévez.

It was unclear last night whether West Ham would receive any payment from United, although privately the club are thought to be glad to see the back of a player, who, through no fault of his own, has caused them considerable embarrassment.

A spokesman for the Premier League said: “As far as the Premier League is concerned, any potential deal for Carlos Tévez must be struck directly with West Ham United.”

The agreement is believed to be similar to that which Liverpool arranged with West Ham and Joorabchian for Javier Mascherano, Tévez’s Argentina team-mate, who joined the Merseyside club on an 18-month loan in January for an initial fee of £1.5 million, with the option of a permanent deal.

Tévez, 23, who is contracted until 2010 with West Ham, stands to earn about £90,000 a week at Old Trafford and will be paraded by the club once he returns from Copa America, which ends on Sunday week.

David Gill, the United chief executive, is understood to have been in talks for several weeks with Joorabchian and West Ham about signing Tévez, although the champions were keen to wait until after a decision by an arbitration panel into the Tévez affair this week. West Ham were fined £5.5 million in April for breaching third party agreements regarding the signing of Tévez and Mascherano last summer, but the panel upheld the ruling of an independent commission not to dock West Ham points.

Tévez’s arrival at United would leave Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager, with an embarrassment of riches up front and represents another significant blow to the club’s title rivals, who had already been reeling from the champions’ purchase this summer of Owen Hargreaves, Anderson and Nani for a projected £55 million.

Written off by many two years ago, Ferguson is now overseeing a remarkable transformation at United, while news of the Tévez transfer could not have been better timed in the eyes of the club’s supporters. Not only could it eclipse Liverpool’s £20.2 million record purchase of Fernando Torres this week and make Arsenal’s loss of Thierry Henry seem all the more damaging, but it has gone some way towards overshadowing Sven-Göran Eriksson’s expected unveiling today as Manchester City manager.

Tévez’s arrival is likely to hasten the departure of Alan Smith, who is attracting interest from Middlesbrough, who have already bid £6 million, as well as Everton, Newcastle United, Sunderland, Aston Villa, City and West Ham. The futures of Giuseppe Rossi and Louis Saha are also uncertain, although both are likely to stay.

Sheffield United will next week ask the High Court for leave to appeal against the decision of the Premier League arbitration panel in the Tévez case. If their request is granted a week today, the hearing is expected to take place the same afternoon.

It is a far cry from the sumptuous surroundings he had in mind when considering a return to management after his departure as England head coach 12 months ago, but Sven-Göran Eriksson’s first match as Manchester City manager will be in Doncaster. Eriksson will be unveiled as the new manager today. The Swede will sign a three-year contract worth £7.5 million and take charge of the friendly away to Doncaster Rovers, the Coca-Cola League One club, at the Keepmoat Stadium on July 14.