The English Patient

The original article published by Olé
Here's a rough translation:

Carlitos is in England hoping to sign with Manchester United and join Alex Ferguson's new team to their pre-season debut in Seoul, South Korea. The English champions will let FIFA handle the conflicts related to the forward's previous club, West Ham United.
David Gill, the executive director of Manchester United announced that his club will resort to FIFA's mediation because West Ham had set forward as a road block in the transfer operation of the 23 year old Argentine.

Tevez returned to England from Copa America to pass the medical before officially joining the English champions. However, West Ham had denied him the permission to participate in the medicals. Gill told the british press that Manchester United is presenting the case to the courts of FIFA and stressed that both ManU and the player are safe in this situation since the decision will be favoring them. "It could take up to two weeks for the court to be formed. All the paper work must be put into order before the case could be evaluated." added by the head of Old Trafford.

Manchester United purchased the player for $60 million via the company Media Sports Investments, who owns the rights to the Argentine forward. MSI, headed by Iranian Kia Joorabchian was the company that bought Tevez from Boca and later took him to Corintians. This operation is currently under investigation by Brazilian justice department on the suspicion of money laundering.

Wayne Rooney was pleased to hear that Tevez will join him and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in Red Devil's offense. He said: "Playing with Carlos Tevez would be great. Hopefully things will get sorted soon. He did brilliantly for West Ham last season and I think he'll be a great signing for us."


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Managers sometimes make signings based on recommendations of their players, like in Critiano Ronaldo's case. But when a deal worth $60m goes down, there's usually a carefully planned strategy behind it.

How is Alex Ferguson going to incorporate the Tevez element into his team? He will have 2 wide forwards each worth a shit ton of money. Benching either of them or even a rotation system between the two would be ridiculous if not ludicrous.

In a league like EPL, size matters. Without a traditional target person, what will ManU's offensive look like?

If Alex Ferguson could develop a system to successfully compete with only short, wide forwards, perhaps future Argentine NT could use it as a model to build our offensive setup.
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In other news. Gabriel Milito arrived in Barcelona.
Is Milito really qualified for the Catalan giant? For a team like Barça that plays offensive football, defender's zone capability is extremely important. Milito is a good inside the box tackler, but his lack of speed meant the Argentine defender might not meet the needs of Frank Rijkaard.

I suspect that the Milito signing had been heavily based on Messi's personal endorsements. Of course, with Puyol injured, there's the necessity of a CB to fill in shoes of the Spaniard temporarily, but for Barça, resorting to Milito isn't very logical at the very least. After all, playing for them is the dream of most world-class defenders.