Marvin said:
They do what's best for the club, not to p'ss City fans off, or raise Utd fans morale. if Ferguson had rated Tevez, he'd have played him more regularly, and not broken the promise to the player over his contract which was supposed to have been sorted in the January window. They'll go after someone like Benzema, or Villa to compensate for the loss of Ronaldo...if that happens.
I agree. The conspiracy theory is a possibility, but no more.
It would mean that Tevez had to forgive and forget the fact that he has been lower in the pecking order than rooney ronaldo and berbatov this year. this is the crux of the matter.... fergie is plainly not in the business of making such assurances to players, and I think the longer tevez spends away from Old Trafford, the more he will be thinking about what is right for him, and wondering if he can risk the possibility of playing even fewer games next year.
let's not forget, berbatov is the direct competition for tevez's place in the team, not ronaldo. Is fergie about to say to tevez, 'i've decided that you are preferred to berbatov, and i won't bring in any more strikers?'. no. even if he did, how could tevez trust him? He played very well in his first year, then fergie brought berbatov. He continued to play very well, probably better than berbatov this year when he was selected, but still didnt get the starts in the big games at the end of the year, and utd opted not to resolve his contractual situation earlier in the year.
Regardless of what has happened in the last six days (approximately feck-all), this is the situation that brought us here, and it hasn't changed one little bit. Ronaldo might leave, he might not. If he goes, then he'll be replaced by someone like ribery. I don't see how it has a major bearing on Tevez's situation.
Forget about Kia burning his bridges with ADUG by pulling a fast one on them. that would be pretty stupid, and he aint stupid.
The only fly in the ointment is if tevez decides that he wants to compete for the title and champs league again next year, regardless of how many or which games he starts in the run up to the world cup, OR that he feels his emotional ties to old trafford are too important to him (but, as I've said, surely he will have mixed feelings about his time there and how valued and looked after he is)
I'd say, we are still in the lead.