Dec 03 2008
Carlos Tevez Is Still Disappointing
photo: Gordon Flood
Well, Carlos Tevez scored four times as Manchester United edged out Blackburn in the Carling Cup today 5-3. But what I don’t understand is how the papers can already be looking at Tevez in an incredibly positive light. Tevez had his first successful performance of the season, but it was the Carling Cup, it’s not like a real match. Nobody takes the Carling Cup seriously, Manchester United clearly didn’t with the starting eleven they put out, and Blackburn? Clearly they didn’t care, because Ince subbed Roque Santa Cruz around the 70th minute for Robbie Fowler.
Tevez hasn’t had a resurgence, and he remains a player that United would do well to not spend a fortune on. Wayne Rooney plays so much better off Dimitar Berbatov, where Tevez just seems to get in the way of a United match nowadays, in any competitive fixture. He can’t play beside Rooney anymore, because he just gets in Rooney’s way. And he can’t play beside Berbatov, because Tevez doesn’t play far enough up front to make himself useful for one of Berbatov’s spectacular passes, or worse when Tevez tries to run with the ball near the box, he just gets tackled and loses possession for United.
Carlos Tevez just doesn’t have what it takes to play at a Premiership elite club anymore, and hopefully United understand that before they fork over a massive amount of money for the Argentine at the end of the season.
