The real issue is player power vs team power. I find it ridiculous that players cannot decide to join another team without having so many barriers placed in front of them. That players cannot decide to join another team without being called a traitor yet teams can dump a player for whatever reason even arbitrary reasons. It is ridiculous that being able to decide which club you wish to play for and when you want to end your contract is considered third party influence.

Think about it if you wish to leave your company for another but the law says that your contract can only be terminated by your contractor and not you. That only your company can negotiate with another to allow you to move. That if they decide that they want you to leave they can sell your contract to whom ever they wish with little or no input from you. That for me is slavery not when a person has an agent who negotiates on his behalf and in return for that gets the transfer fee rather than a percentage of the players salary for life in cases as much as fifty percent for foreign nationals.

‘Tim Howard – No particular clause was inserted in his contract with Everton. It was based on a “verbal” agreement between the 2 clubs’ You obviously don’t understand contract law very well as ‘verbal’ agreement can be legally binding thus making it third party involvement.

I have no particular beef with Man Utd but what really gets me about the whole affair is my club WHU are being painted as cheats, liars etc, yet in principle the same thing occurs with almost every other club. The big clubs are painted whiter than white as they generate the most money, news etc, imagine your a jouralist and you upset Sir Alex, suddenly your paper has limited access to interviews etc, so issues involving the bigger sides tend to get looked over the ‘Ashley Cole affair’ being a prime example.

I also thought ‘tapping up’ was illegal yet it goes on all the time, take Rick Parry who let it be know through the media that Liverpool were interested in Yossi B, his comments turned the player who was about to sign a new 5 year contract and then offers just £1m for a player worth at least £6m. Move on a few weeks, WHU have a player who won’t sign a new deal and wants to move and Liverpool, WHU know they have to sell as he’d be a free agent in the summer so slowly Liverpool offer a little more each time and finally get their man for roughly £4m.

2. Presumably this is the bit about no party other than a club and player can determine the conditions of the contract.

3. Yes, but let’s not forget that this is not West Ham’s fault… at least not anymore. Granted they did the wrong thing when negotiating Tevez’s contract (no one other than the FA would try and deny that). But the FA are the one’s at fault for the short-sighted decisions about this player. Surely they realized that they needed to sort this out because the issue would only arise again when another club came to the realization he’s one of the best young talents in the world and tried to buy him? Did they think he was going to retire at West Ham!? Let’s not forget that the decision, poor as it was, they made was made far later than it should have been.

4. They can’t (because he has a contract) but the FA or, need be, the courts could. Maybe I’m biased as a United fan, but this seems like the best result – seeing as the original contract was sour anyway.

5. The deal was ignorance. Ignorance is bliss.

I think the only reason why West Ham are doing this is because they had already let go of Mascherano before the ruling and in now can make money out of that deal now. So they wanna make up for the fine and make a hell load with Tevez’s valuation.

With this warrant, if he does get jailed and then Kia cannot be contacted, what will happen to the whole transfer Saga?

I am really hopeful next week things become more clear.

I believe he’s been laundering money off Corinthians or whatever, but I doubt buying Tevez had much to do with it.

Oh well, things are getting murkier and murkier. It’s a mess.