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Was waiting for this. I expected it earlier on to be honest. Wednesday can't come soon enough. We'll all get the clarity on the situation and hopefully either two things are done:

1. The transfer goes through without a hitch and we don't have to hear/read about this anymore.

2. The transfer is not permitted and United have to move on without Tevez.

Curbs hits back at Fergie

Alan Curbishley has hit out at Sir Alex Ferguson over his comments about Carlos Tevez.

West Ham and Manchester United have found themselves at loggerheads over the controversial transfer of Tevez.

United are confident of wrapping up a deal for Tevez when he returns from the Copa America even though the wrangle over his ownership continues.

Ferguson expects the move to be tied up soon and he has upset Curbishley with his comments that Tevez single-handedly kept West Ham up last season.

Curbishley, who has admitted Tevez is unlikely to link-up with his side for the tour of Austria, has slammed Ferguson's comments as being disrespectful to the rest of the team.

"I was a bit disappointed with Alex's comments about Tevez keeping us up," Curbishley told the Sunday Express.

"There were ten other players out there and a lot of them were big performers for us.

"There was a lot more going on that just Carlos Tevez. Every day has been a Tevez day for the last two months.

"I have kept my own counsel and got on with it. But I was disappointed to hear Alex say that.

"I expect we are going to Austria and he is not going to be with us.

"But please don't keep talking to me about Tevez because there is nothing I can do about it."

Curbishley also hit out at Yossi Benayoun after the Israeli left Upton Park for Liverpool earlier this week.

The Hammers chief believes Benayoun was happy to stay at the club until he heard of Liverpool's interest.

"I was disappointed with Yossi because he had signed a new contract and it turns out he hadn't," added Curbishley.

"When Liverpool came in for him it changed everything.

"I didn't want Yossi to go and we didn't need the business."
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um, Mr. Gill. Tell us something we don't know. The ramificaitons for Manchester United if this deal goes sour are enormous. Surely, there had to be another player *Adriano* who United could have gone after. I'm just praying that everything works out fine.

Tevez set complete 'over-complicated' move - Gill

OKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Manchester United chief executive David Gill expects West Ham's Argentine striker Carlos Tevez to join the English Premier League champions 'in the course of the next week or so'.

Gill's comments came at a news conference in Tokyo on the eve of Manchester United's friendly match against J-League champions Urawa Reds on Tuesday.

'We are working on it and clearly it's complicated -- overly complicated in my humble opinion,' Gill said of the transfer.

'And we are working, effectively, with four other parties in order to sort it out: the player, West Ham, the companies who own his economic rights and the Premier League.

'The process is going on as we speak. The player is coming over to Manchester and will have a medical some time this week.

'I don't want to give you the date in case you stalk him,' Gill joked.

'But he's coming over... and we'll take it from there, but obviously that's going to be subject to sorting out all the paperwork.

'We're very confident that that can be achieved in the course of the next week or so.'

However, the future of Argentine defender Gabriel Heinze, who has been linked with a move to Premier League rivals Liverpool, remains less clear.

'Heinze and his agents have been adamant he wants to move on,' manager Alex Ferguson said.

'We are not too sure about that but we don't have a concrete offer from any particular club.

'There has been some momentum regarding the player's next move in terms of through his agent, but nothing clear at this moment in time.'

The team arrived in Tokyo on Monday without the injured quartet of Park Ji-sung, Gary Neville, Louis Saha and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who all had surgery earlier this year.

Ferguson expects Neville to rejoin the squad after their two-week Asian tour, Solskjaer soon after that and Saha in early to mid-August.

Park is not expected to be fit until the second half of the season, but will join the squad for their match against FC Seoul in the South Korean capital on Friday.

The four-match tour concludes against Chinese sides Shenzhen FC on July 23 and Guangzhou Pharmaceutical FC on July 27.
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Hammers hold up Tevez medical

Manchester United have failed to secure permission from West Ham for Carlos Tevez to undergo a medical on Wednesday.

The Argentine has flown in to Manchester following the end of the Copa America and had been hoping to meet club officials.

Manchester United were preparing to put Tevez through a series of fitness and medical checks on Wednesday but may now have to wait.

A medical is only allowed to go ahead with both clubs' agreement and West Ham will not give their consent until they have been made - and accepted - an offer.

"Meetings have taken place between the two clubs but no agreement has been reached in relation to Carlos Tevez," said a West Ham spokesman.

Tevez has expressed his desire to move to Old Trafford and has also called for a quick resolution, but United have admitted the deal is complicated.

David Gill said earlier this week that United were having to work with the player, West Ham, MSI - the company who own Tevez's economic rights and the Premier League.

West Ham would appear to be planning for life without Tevez by bringing in Craig Bellamy, but they remain adamant that he is contracted to them for another three years.

Tevez submitted a written request to West Ham last week asking to be released from his contract but they refused.
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