Source: Telegraph
Manchester United's Carlos Tevez rejects £40 million offer to join Real Madrid
A report in the Mail adds strength to suggestions that the Argentine has every intention of staying in the Premier League should he leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.
Moreover, Tevez's 'owner' Kia Joorabchian insists that his client's decision to reject a move to Real is proof enough that money is acting as no incentive when it comes to determining his next move
'Carlos will decide on his future,' Joorabchian said. 'Carlos Tevez will decide where Carlos Tevez will play.
'This is not about money it's about where Carlos wants to play and his family.
'To turn down the chance of progressing talks of this nature shows this.'
Real are the first club to have made an official approach to sign the 25-year-old who has been linked with a string of big name clubs since giving a controversial interview last week during which he said he no longer felt wanted at United.
With Tevez's backers expecting United to stump up £26 million to make his current loan deal permanent, The Sun claims there is in fact a loophole through which he could stay at Old Trafford for free.
The paper quotes East Midlands MEP Chris Heaton-Harris as saying: 'Under European law he [Tevez] has the right to break this contract.
'If he went to the European Commission and said he wanted out he would get support.
'You can't keep a person to a contract that he doesn't want to continue in.'
Admittedly there is nothing to validate suggestions that Tevez would be happy to break from Joorabchian and his backers - and the above is not the only 'get out' clause available to him.
United are said to have been investigating how the Bosman rule might be applied to Tevez's case in the belief that the contract he has with his owners could violate European labour rules.
"Bosman was tied to a football club and Tevez is tied to a company – there is very little difference. It is a simple follow on from Bosman,' Heaton-Harris added.
'The football authorities have been very slow to understand the problems this sort of arrangement causes.
'If the FA and Uefa had come to us with this problem in the first place there would have been none of these contracts and it would have been job done.'
