The Year Of The Footballer: The Tevez Story

Most of us know that Tevez is yet to be owned by a Football Club. There is this thing is Brazil where companies purchase a player, akin to a transfer from club-to-club, where they own the value of that player.

They do not, however, contribute to the wages unless otherwise stipulated in an agreement with the original owner of that player.

Santos are the club that you could say are most involved with this system. As you may have read recently in the Papers, United have clinched a deal with the firm who own the economic rights to Santos youth academy, giving United the "first choice" of the crop of young Brazilians. In the words of the firm "We groom for European Football" and this has been met with staunch responses from all the greats including Pele.

Tevez was a similar situation.

The Brazilian League is full of teams who are poor and who are in dire financial difficulty. The fact these firms have come along and purchased certain segments of the club means that clubs in that League will never truly be "Clubs" in the traditional sense of the word. We are living in an era, the "Premier League era", where money is albeit the driving force in World Football.

If you have it you win—if you don't, you can't win.

According to his owners, not current Market Condition Tevez is worth 30.5 million pounds, not the 25.5 being branded about by the media or Kia. Manchester United have refused to pay 30.5 million and only offered Tevez a contract, from which he accepted, but his Management Team refused because Manchester United then had the nerve to offer only 20 million for his services.

Liverpool can't bid, because they don't have any money. Chelsea made a bid, but Tevez favours a stay in the area, and City of course have come in for a big money bid.

It should be tied up in the next five business days, unless a certain Spanish club come in for him, but Barcelona won't budge unless Eto's future is resolved. But unlike Tevez, Eto will go anywhere for money, including the A/A Champions League for a summer.

Football is now money and money is now a God.

If you have it you will be granted beauty. And unfortunately in Tevez's case, this money, will only drive Tevez to regret the whole situation. When Business gets involved in Football, you the fans, the players and the clubs can only suffer. The beauty of the game now only lasts for 90 minutes on the pitch, but even then you may not even be watching players who are owned by your club.