Tevez and mascherano to west ham??

[animal magic]

Tony Gale is so anti-Liverpool he makes Andy Gray seem like Thommo.

'All that West Ham would say is that the deal for both players is permanent, although it is understood that the package could eventually cost them an eye-watering £60 million.


'That is highly unlikely as, in return for paying a small fee for the players and covering their wages now, West Ham have agreed to hefty sell-on clauses in the event of one of the bigger clubs in the Premiership, or on the continent, making a bid. It is believed that if a £30 million bid for either is tabled, then West Ham must sell or pay Corinthians the same amount to keep them.

'In return, West Ham will also get a small percentage of any sell-on fee. Corinthians are also understood to have negotiated an option to buy them back at the same price West Ham have paid.

[Shaggy]

Aaaaaaaah! I see now! That not remotely dodgy agent Pini Zihavi says it's got nothing to do with Chelsea and West Ham were merely the most suitable club for the Argentine pair to escape their Brazilian hell!!

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=413508&CPID=8&clid=21&lid=2&title=T evez:+Hammers+most+'suitable'

[Diego]

seems they have signed two of the worlds graetest prospects on a permanent 1 or 2 year deal...

talk about being dodgy as hell

[Rich]

For £1m each! To be honest, this should be investigated.

Imagine this as a scenario. Tevez and Mascherano are struggling to adapt to the pressures of the EPL, and Pardew wants to drop them - will he have the authority to do that? Or will somebody above him say that these two players simply have to play. If this happens, then surely Pardew isn't going to stand for it?!?

[PTP]

Aaaaaaaah! I see now! That not remotely dodgy agent Pini Zihavi says it's got nothing to do with Chelsea and West Ham were merely the most suitable club for the Argentine pair to escape their Brazilian hell!!

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=413508&CPID=8&clid=21&lid=2&title=T evez:+Hammers+most+'suitable'

To be fair Pini Zihavi is an honest and decent business man. I hold him in the same high regards as Mother Teresa

[zimbo]

And more from The Guardian:

Eyebrows raised at deal shrouded in mystery
For now, Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascherano are West Ham players, but the reality of the deal remains in the dark.
Paul KelsoSeptember 1, 2006 10:13 AM
West Ham's sensational capture of Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascherano is undoubtedly the biggest coup of this or any other transfer window, but it is not just in English pubs and Premiership grounds that the significance of the Argentinian pair's arrival will be debated.

Thanks to the complex structure of the deal and the mysterious ownership structure of Media Sports Investments (MSI), the investment vehicle that yesterday sold the players' registrations to West Ham, administrators in Britain and Europe will have raised eyebrows at the passing of a deal that in almost every sense is unusual.

Although the transfer lists in today's papers will baldly state that Tévez and Mascherano yesterday moved from Corinthians to West Ham, the reality of the deal is more complex and remains in part opaque. The players were contracted to and paid by the Sao Paulo club but they were at least half "owned" by MSI and its front man Kia Joorabchian, an Iranian-born, British-educated businessman.

MSI yesterday sold its share in the pair's registration to the Hammers because FA regulations prevent player registrations being owned by anyone other than a club. MSI has secured lucrative sell-on clauses, however, meaning West Ham will have to sell either player should they receive an offer in excess of €50m (£35m) per player or match the fee themselves, with the lion's share of the profit going to MSI. For celebrating West Ham fans the one cloud on the horizon may be that the pair will spend this season in the Premiership shop window before departing to more glamorous employers.

Joorabchian became familiar to an English football audience last year when he tabled a £90m offer to buy West Ham from the chairman Terence Brown. The offer was not accepted but relations between the two parties remained good enough for the deal of the season to be engineered almost out of the blue.

Welcome though the signings will be to Hammers fans who will now dream of Champions League football, Joorabchian is a controversial figure in Brazil, where he was investigated after buying Corinthians in 2004, in Russia where he developed links with the exiled media oligarch Boris Berezovsky, and in the corridors of the European governing body Uefa where allegations of claimed links to European clubs, including at least one from the Premiership, have come to the attention of the chief executive Lars Christer Olsson.

Joorabchian, 35, made his entrance into football in 2004 when he appeared in Sao Paulo as the frontman for MSI's takeover of Corinthians, which saw the company promise to pump $35m into the club over 10 years. Joorabchian presented Tévez as a $22m (£11.5m) "present" to the fans and the most high-profile player ever to swap Argentina for a Brazilian club. Within months, however, Joorabchian and MSI found themselves the subject of an investigation by the Brazilian Central Bank and the organised crime unit. The investigations threw up extravagant claims but no proof of any wrongdoing.

MSI is registered in London, with Joorabchian and a Nojan Bedroud of Maidenhead, Berkshire, listed as the sole directors. Joorabchian has been on compassionate leave from Corinthians for several months after the death of his father. The transfer of Tévez has also thrown up suggestions of indirect links between the businessman and Berezovsky.

Joorabchian acknowledges that the two men are friends but denies that the Russian is a source of MSI's cash. Joorabchian also denies ties between MSI and Roman Abramovich, who was linked with the company by the Spanish newspaper AS, its story fuelled by reported sightings of Abramovich's yacht in Buenos Aires shortly before the Tévez deal was announced.

It was these suggestions of links between club owners stretching around the world and across Europe that alerted European administrators to the activities of Joorabchian. Allegations made in the Dutch media were forwarded to Olsson, who forwarded his concerns to leading football administrators across the continent and members of the European Parliament. Olsson's warning shot was in part the catalyst for a review of European football governance sponsored by the sports minister Richard Caborn and carried out by a Portugese politician, Jose Luis Arnaud. The review called for EU law to be changed to allow football to be governed by different rules to the rest of business, specifically allowing the authorities to investigate collaboration between clubs. Currently Uefa can only intervene if an individual or club own more than 51% of two clubs.

[DeeGame]

why cant parry pull off deals like this

[Charlie_B]

I can't believe how corrupt it all is. Astonishing really. Although, to be fair to them, the FA will show their might by fining Chelsea a fiver and asking them nicely not to do it again. Oh, and if they could please, please, please have a go on the yacht?

[Shanks65]

Good article in todays Independent

http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/premiership/article1319327.ece

[red g]

why cant parry pull off deals like this

because its a rubbish deal!! I have no wish for Liverpool FC to appear a feeder club !

[Harv]

this transfer reminds me of that cheat in football manager.

you know that trick where you set up a new manager...then sell the good players for knockdown fees to the manager you already had set up


its dodgy!

[animal magic]

why cant parry pull off deals like this

A number of clubs - including Arsenal, Chelsea, Seville, Roma and Portsmouth -turned down the chance to take Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez as they were unwilling to agree to the terms of the deal.

taken from bbc

[Tom]

The whole thing stinks to high heaven. This Portsmouth/Chavski/West Hamski axis is bent as a three pound note.

[Rich]

If the FA don't start looking into this soon then the English game is going to get into massive difficulties. We are seeing the first signs of some kind of Football club cartel.

[dirty_sanchez]

The whole thing stinks to high heaven. This Portsmouth/Chavski/West Hamski axis is bent as a three pound note.

What have Portsmouth got to do with it?