Phil McNulty on Tevez’s move to The Council House

Posted July 14th, 2009 by Franky in Quotes, That's How The Day Ended

Carlos Tevez

BBC Sport’s Chief football writer Phil McNulty has the best analysis around Tevez’s importance for ManUtd and Man City now the Argentinean has agreed a deal worth £150k/week at Eastlands and around £25m to put his pen down on said paper.

The absence of Tevez, as well as the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, makes more room in the middle for Wayne Rooney – a superior talent and goalscorer to the Argentina international.

This, however, does not make him a questionable purchase by Hughes. He is an upgrade on what City currently have and he will be at a club where – and even Eastlands fans must recognise this – aspirations and expectations are currently on an entirely different level.

Would a huge outlay on Tevez have taken United on to another level? No. Will a huge outlay on Tevez improve City and help them towards their eventual target? Every chance. This alone makes perfect sense of City’s new signing.

He fulfils two time-honoured transfer criteria. Is he better than what City currently have? Can they afford him? Yes, and most emphatically yes.

McNulty correctly outlines that A. Tevez wasn’t worth the money to assure a stay at OT and B. ManUtd have a superior talent, Wayne Rooney, already.

Source: BBC Sport.

Tags: Manchester City · Quotes · Rooney · Tevez

Comments (3)

3 Responses to “Phil McNulty on Tevez’s move to The Council House”

TheRedObserver on July 15, 2009 1:20 am
Well Tevez worked hard for United, when it comes to skillage he isn’t the prettiest but in terms of contribution to the team and its potency Tevez was definitely a 10.

I’m sorry to lose him, but if Fergie wasn’t prepared to dash out for him, I respect that, he is the manager and because of him, we are considered to be one of the greatest clubs in the world. (the greatest in my opinion).

This is a really informative blog you have here.
Franky on July 15, 2009 3:14 pm
Thanks for your comment, TheRedObserver. I hope you will continue to enjoy our ManUtd blog. I entirely agree with you, SAF knows what he does, without him we would never be where we are now!
TheRedObserver on July 17, 2009 11:13 pm
Have you read, Eckersley has gone to burnley, I really used to enjoy watching him play.

But that’s that.

Anyway, i’ve recently started my own blog about United, there’s always so much to talk about when it comes to united and football.