so why did city pay the 3rd party owners for tevez ??? we defo did not pay united ? or west ham ? or Kia ? because he stated in that video he was only a agent to tevez so where did the money go ??
i heard that because he was a west ham player he could sign a loan deal under 3rd party ownership because west ham was his club and they just loaned him ? but something stinks. and i think Kia knew what he had over city and city lost control of the player under mancini and he and tevez took the piss
i would not trust KIa with anything not even a 10p mix up. he stinks and dodgy as fuck. and when somebody like him get under table its only going to end one way and ugly is not a nice thing to look at
Well check out the video for Kia's full explanation from his own mouth.
But reading between the lines, it seems like Tevez was at West Ham while 3rd party owned, then the league banned it. So then Tevez was essentially a free agent.
He signed for United on a 2 years contract, with an option to extend for a further 4 years (6 in total). If United had exercised that option, then Kia or MSI or whoever, couldn't have done anything about it, he was United's player.
The deadline for the 4 year option passed. It seems likely to me that Tevez's camp would have been due a huge signing on bonus had United exercised the option, so United let the option expire so they didn't have to pay it.
So essentially Tevez became a free agent again. Fergie then apparently called Tevez and left a voicemail saying he wanted him to stay. Perhaps they were trying to avoid paying the signing on fee, or perhaps wanted to renegotiate the length of the new contract.
But by this time, Kia had spoken to City and Tevez had agreed to come. The reported transfer fee we paid did not go to United, and was paid to Tevez's reps. He will have been a free agent again at this point, because his 2 year deal with United had expired.
The only person that really got screwed over here was Tevez. If he'd been a free agent and had respectable people advising him, he would have been due that fee himself.
And then when City signed him, he became a City player, with no 3rd party ownership.