MANCHESTER UNITED will not be able to renew their loan deal with
Carlos Tevez.
In fact, the only way the Premier League champions can keep the
25-year-old Argie striker after this season is to buy him — and the
asking price is £32million.
Tev is allowed to play for the Red Devils because he signed a
two-year loan deal before new Premier League rules came into force
last June.
Those regulations forbid similar loan arrangements, where players
are owned by third parties and not a club. Tevez is still owned by
agent Kia Joorabchian.
And a Premier League spokesman explained: “He would not be eligible
to play under the new rules on third-party ownership we introduced
in June.
“But the rules are not applied retrospectively so he can play for
United under his two-year loan arrangement from 2007.”
Tevez will now go to the highest bidder at the end of the season —
but he will not be able to play beyond this summer unless a club
buys out his registration.
They will then play him — or loan him out.