My theory, for what is worth is that I think Kia still thinks he has some bargaining chips or is pretending he does just to screw as much money out of the situation to himself as he can. I think Tevez might be weak-willed and for some reason, incapable of standing up to this. I think we're coming to the point when it is in the player's interest to set a deadline on whatever bogusness is going on because he is clearly still worried about the reaction of rag fans to his percieved "defection" to City and he doesn't have a counter-weight to this yet. The rapturous reception he is likely to get if and when he does sign will help him feel a whole lot better about any hostility from the Trafford mingers. The longer this goes on, the more nervous he's going to get about it. Also, he needs to try and arrive in a blaze of glory. Also, there will always be people determined to view the delay as evidence that we are his last resort, even if that isn't true. He hasn't really kept to Kia's self-pronounced time table eitehr, which is making it look less of an inevitablity than it might actually be. I don't understand why nothing has been said for so long now. Even an official update might allay people's worries but for some reason, even that doesn't seem imminent.