WEST HAM want Craig Bellamy to replace Carlos Tevez.
Hammers boss Alan Curbishley and chairman Eggert Magnusson feel
signing the £8million-rated Liverpool striker will prove the clubs
ambition following their narrow escape from relegation. Magnusson,
who aims to get the club into the Champions League in three years
time, will pay the Wales star £60,000 a week. Tevez, tipped for a
£30m move to Real Madrid that will not earn West Ham a penny, has
returned to Argentina.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has told Wigan
chairman Dave Whelan he got his facts wrong over last months
inquiry into the Carlos Tevez deal. Whelan accused Scudamore and
League chairman Dave Richards of dereliction of duty in their
handling of the Tevez affair and called for them to resign. He
believed the League had been ordered to terminate Tevezs contract
by last months independent inquiry. And he did not feel the
striker should have been allowed to play in the Hammers 3-0 win at
the JJB Stadium.
But Scudamore phoned him to point out the inquiry simply gave the
League powers to terminate Tevezs contract if West Ham did not
scrap an agreement with Kia Joorabchian, the players owner. That
clause, allowing Joorabchian to sell Tevez when he wanted, was
immediately removed by West Ham. That was why they were fined
£5.5million by the League rather than having points deducted.
