Like most football fans I love a bit of speculation and gossip - especially about possible transfers. The Man Utd situation with Carlos Tevez is hotting up and my info and feeling is that the Argentine warrior will end up at 1. Chelsea or 2. Man City. Liverpool? No. I think he has to much respect for United fans to join their bitterest rivals.
I like Tevez. He is a great battler and a busy player - a lot like Rooney. If Sir Alex Ferguson hadn't splashed out £31million for Dimitar Berbatov last year it would seem there would have been no question of keeping Tev. But with hindsight it is surely the case that Ferg opted for Berba rather than Tev.
Was it the right move? Well, it seemed so at the time - Berba had done the business at Spurs and was a centre forward in the true Cantona style so adored at OT. But he has not consistently delivered at United - he has been much like Juan Veron, whom Ferguson signed in 2001 and played time and again (often instead of David Beckham) in the hope he would finally turn on the style.
Veron never did and it seemed to me that Ferguson felt he would be scoffed at for spending a fortune on him if he dropped him. Indeed he once lambasted the Press corps when he was asked why he was playing Veron instead of Becks, claiming the journalists were f***ing idjiots (sic). Is history repeating itself with Berba?
My own feeling is no: that Berba is class and will come good and deliver a world class performance he owes Utd...very probably in the Champions League final in Rome!
And would I have Berba or Tevez given the choice? Berba..
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