Blades can appeal Tevez transfer
From correspondents in London
May 24, 2007
THE English Premier League has told relegated Sheffield United it is willing to go to arbitration over West Ham United's punishment for irregularities in Carlos Tevez's transfer.
"We wrote to Sheffield United yesterday (Tuesday) to tell them that if they want to go to arbitration we are happy about that," a Premier League spokesman said.
He added that an arbitration panel would be announced tomorrow.
The Blades were relegated while West Ham survived the drop on the final day of the season earlier this month, with Tevez playing a key role in the London club's survival despite flaws in his registration at the beginning of the season.
Tevez and fellow Argentina World Cup player Javier Mascherano, who moved to Liverpool in January, joined the Hammers from Brazil's Corinthians in a controversial transfer on the August 31 deadline last year.
West Ham was fined a record £5.5 million ($13 million) last month by an independent Premier League commission which ruled that the players' contracts contravened league rules by giving certain rights to third-party companies.
West Ham admitted the charge and escaped a points deduction that would have almost certainly condemned them to relegation and an estimated revenue loss of about £30 million ($72 million).
Tevez is back home in Buenos Aires preparing for Argentina's friendly international away to Switzerland on June 2, while British newspapers report that he is being chased by some of Europe's biggest clubs including Real Madrid and Chelsea.
Reuters
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HTFU you had 30 + rounds to avoid relegation
if you concentrated on playinf football and STFU about Tevez and mascheranoo then you might of won a few games
From correspondents in London
May 24, 2007
THE English Premier League has told relegated Sheffield United it is willing to go to arbitration over West Ham United's punishment for irregularities in Carlos Tevez's transfer.
"We wrote to Sheffield United yesterday (Tuesday) to tell them that if they want to go to arbitration we are happy about that," a Premier League spokesman said.
He added that an arbitration panel would be announced tomorrow.
The Blades were relegated while West Ham survived the drop on the final day of the season earlier this month, with Tevez playing a key role in the London club's survival despite flaws in his registration at the beginning of the season.
Tevez and fellow Argentina World Cup player Javier Mascherano, who moved to Liverpool in January, joined the Hammers from Brazil's Corinthians in a controversial transfer on the August 31 deadline last year.
West Ham was fined a record £5.5 million ($13 million) last month by an independent Premier League commission which ruled that the players' contracts contravened league rules by giving certain rights to third-party companies.
West Ham admitted the charge and escaped a points deduction that would have almost certainly condemned them to relegation and an estimated revenue loss of about £30 million ($72 million).
Tevez is back home in Buenos Aires preparing for Argentina's friendly international away to Switzerland on June 2, while British newspapers report that he is being chased by some of Europe's biggest clubs including Real Madrid and Chelsea.
Reuters
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HTFU you had 30 + rounds to avoid relegation
if you concentrated on playinf football and STFU about Tevez and mascheranoo then you might of won a few games
