Re: Tevez likely to stay with City due to lack of suitors!!!
Blue Haze said:
No one will pay 40m for a chronic depressive who constantly talks about quitting football and hating the city he's playing in. Nevermind his parasitic agent.
He's at the wrong age for a big money move now really. Not saying that no-one will come in for him but any buying club looking at the FFPR regs will be reluctant.
He's 27 and will want a 3 year contract (so he can move again) and any club paying £40m+ will only offer a 5 year one taking him to 32. Any club buying him now will be looking at £90m over 5 years (40m +10m per year wages) and he'll have a negligible resale value of £5-10m probably. If he doesn't get a move this summer the maths are going to get worse every year in terms of buying him unless he goes shit - and then who would want to buy him for big money and wages :-)
He's not a pin-up like Kaka, Tranny and others and he's also not Ballon d'Or winner etc so his commercial value isn't great in terms of selling shirts. He's probably worth it for his performances on the pitch but there are other players who provide better commercial value or who are younger etc they can look at maybe getting 7-8 years from e.g. Aguerro, Higuain, Cavani etc.
Finally, every club must look at his record over his career on how he jumps ship for a big payday every 2 years. Also the disruption he causes whilst engineerig his exit. I don't think his pushing for a move will ever change as long as he has a shout at engineering one although a CL winners medal and a couple of PL titles may convince him otherwise. Maybe a couple of the big ego clubs like Real and maybe Milans may think he'd be fine if they signed him but all his career so far points to the opposite.
I'd be surprised if he wasn't viewed as a poisoned chalice by most of the big clubs who could afford him and otherwise be tempted to bid for him.
IMO he's stuck with City and we're stuck with him, not too bad an option for City as he always gives 110% even when "unhappy" but he needs to knuckle down and just play as opposed to continually giving whining interviews to the press.
Edit: Having said all that, I wouldn't be disappointed if we got £45m and he disappeared to another club.