CARLOS TEVEZ can break free from his owners and stay at Manchester United.
That was the sensational message last night, as the row over his future intensified and the European Parliament prepared to get involved.
United are refusing to pay the £26million fee demanded by a consortium led by Kia Joorabchian, who owns Tevez.
And Chris Heaton-Harris, president of the EU’s powerful Sports Intergroup which deals with sporting matters across the continent, insisted there was nothing to stop the Argie striker going his own way.
East Midlands MEP Heaton-Harris is an influential figure in Brussels on sports issues and admitted he has been shocked by the Tevez saga.
He told SunSport: “It is unique and bizarre that an entity, rather than a club, owns a player.
“In employment terms, Carlos Tevez has a contract himself with this company. But if he went to the European Commission and said he wanted out of it, he would get European support.
“It is just an employment contract. You can’t keep a person to a contract that he doesn’t want to continue in.
“Under European law, he has the right to break this contract.”
There is, of course, no evidence that Tevez wants to break from his owners or Joorabchian, who is also his adviser.
They agreed a loan deal with United two years ago. It had the proviso that, if United wanted to keep the player, they would have to pay £26m for him.
United have not exercised that option, so Joorabchian and his consortium say that it is time to look elsewhere.
Sources close to the player insist he does not want to stay at the club and that he is happy for his ‘owners’ to decide what his future should be.
But United boss Alex Ferguson disputed this on Wednesday night, insisting Tevez wanted to remain and the club had made him a new offer.
SunSport revealed on Wednesday how Tevez’s contract with his owners could contravene European labour rules.
We explained how the argument made by Jean Marc Bosman in 1995, which radically changed football’s transfer system, could be applied to Tevez’s situation.
And United themselves have been exploring possible legal loopholes in the third-party ownership clause of Tevez’s contract. Heaton-Harris added: “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.
If he seriously think Liverpool is better than United or Chelsea, then what to say.........Rafa is The Gaffe
...<and not worthy of 30mn either 
