Ted Hughes wrote:ant london wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:
We can't buy Kia off of anything. He is Tevez's agent there's not a chance he'd leave his favourite "friend".
Personally I'm still convinced he is off. Obviously saying all this crap because there are still couple of games where he'll play. I think he is going to Italy. Careerwise as stupid move as he can make at this stage but he is banging that fine Italian model ass.
Agree that there is no chance we could pay off Kia to sever links/stop acting for Carlos.
What we could do though is pay him off in the form of some kind of re-signing/loyalty type bonus to essentially compensate him for the fee he "forsakes" by not moving Carlos on.
Clearly we also have to do something to accomodate Tevez's family/model banging conundrum.
It's a big pain in the arse to have to handle for the club and a lot of moving parts BUT Tevez would be extraordinarily difficult to replace. I'm convinced that Dzeko and Mario will be much improved next season but are they sure to be able to step up and plug a 20+ goal gap that Carlos would leave....well, I'd not be wanting to take that risk.
If we bring back Adebayor and sign Drogba then I'd be tempted to just sell Carlos but handling Mario/Ade/Drog in the dressing room/on the bench is probably as big of an arseache as dealing with this Tevez fix.
Tough call but there are not many strikers even potentially out there (never mind actually available!) who could fill the void he would leave
I don't think it's impossible we could pay Kia to fuck off. If Tevez doesn't go soon, he'll never be worth a huge fee as he'll be too old so Kia needs to cash in now. If we tell him Tevez stays here whatever the outcome, he either takes the money or loses it. I think he'd rather have the money than just spened the next few years ruining Tevez & causing shit.Re the family/model banging problem; if they move to Spain or Italy, they can visit him here & if we have a good rotation policy with enough quality strikers, he can fuck off over there on a regular basis & rest up for the big games. We end up with a fit, happy Tevez for all the big games. We know he'll put the effort in when he plays, so everybody wins.
This is the real crux of the matter and one we've got to resolve if Tevez is to stay. However, given the looming FFP regulations, rather than paying Joorabchian off, which could be inordinately expensive, it might be a lot cheaper to just put a 'contract' out on him and have him quietly removed from the scene. Either that, or bite the bullet and sell the player for as much as we can get.