Blackmore convinced money to blame for Tevez's Man Utd exit
Former Manchester United fullback Clayton Blackmore believes Carlos Tevez's prime motivation for leaving is money.
Blackmore told Sky Sports: "I think it's money. It might be due a little bit to his name not being first on the team-sheet, but very few players are guaranteed a start at United and I would put it more down to money.
"I don't think it was in his hands, I think he would have been happy with what he was offered. I think it's the people in charge of him (his representatives) who were the problem.
"I felt the writing was on the wall when I saw his body language at the end of the season and the interview he gave after the final home game against Arsenal. So I'm not too surprised; I was more surprised when Ronaldo left.
"We're going to miss Tevez's work-rate and he is a great finisher. But I'm sure the manager will have someone up his sleeve and he'll come up trumps again."
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Comments (7)
and the fact that man utd waited til the end of tevez contract to offered the right contract and pay the amount to his advisors. tevez showed loyalty all season long and man utd played him.
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macheda wasn't banned because he had a problem, Sir Alex purely informed all the nightclubs to not let him in, cuz they all knew he was 17, plus Sir Alex dint want him to start partying n stuff specially after scoring such amazing goals :) Its "prevention is better then cure" all over
With regards to tevez, maybe if he din't score that goal against porto, porto mayn't have equalized, hence the score could have still been 1-1 and UTD scored at Porto, so yeah...
With regards to Ronaldo, personally speaking, I felt bad he wanted to go to madrid last year, but the fact that he remained a UTD player meant I would do anything to support him as long as he was a red, no matter what he did before that, but now that he has gone, I wouldn't mind booing him sometime in the near future if madrid met UTD :)
Da Bee...how can you compare a international superstar Tevez to Macheda. Come on!
Tevez has scored VERY vital goals for Man Utd, Porto anyone? those clowns would have beaten you's if it wasn't for Tevez late SUB goal.
And Macheda was already banned by SAF from going clubbing...so already at his young age, he wants to go pubbin' and clubbin'...non-problematic...sure for now.
I'm not even gonna waste my fingers typing a reply to what u said...Macheda over Tevez...simply ridiculous.
Man U fans are one of the worst 2-faced fans in the world.
All I need to do is mention the Ronaldo s/hit before he left. Last season you's were all loving him. 42 goals HOORAY!.
Then he was hinting at leaving for Real...you's were all booing and hating and saying "We dont need him, f/uck him" blah blah.
Cames back and what do ya know...you's suck his d/ick quicker than Paris Hilton on his d/ick.
Man U fans suck!
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