MSI take West Ham to court

[silverfox]

Thought I'd put this in a new thread. It may run on.....

From Sky Sports..........

Media Sports Investments, the company who claim to own Carlos Tevez's economic rights, have issued a High Court writ against West Ham United, according to Sky Sports News.

MSI are trying to broker Tevez's proposed move to Manchester United, but the Premier League have insisted that West Ham must receive any transfer fee.

The Hammers insist they still own Tevez's registration and that has led to the latest action.

The whole Tevez saga was taken to Fifa last week and they ruled on Tuesday that the case would be best heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

MSI are desperate for the case to be resolved as soon as possible and they feel High Court action is the best avenue for them to take.

 

[keenzy]

so what happens if they win? are we in the right?

 

[Bladesman]

so what happens if they win? are we in the right?

We were in the right all along.

Just no one had the bollocks to do the right thing.

 

[silverfox]

so what happens if they win? are we in the right?

I suppose it will all depend on what paperwork is made public.

 

[Bladesman]

Now if this all comes out ? would this mean we would once again have a case for compo ?

 

[sendô WHU]

I'm actually fairly happy tbh. I've got to the point now where I just want all this over with.

I don't consider Tevez as a West Ham player anymore anyway, even if we win and he stays he still wants to go to Man Utd so we'd just end up selling him anyway.

All that I can see happening is the court rules MSI own Tevez and that the money goes to them. The PL rules of West Ham having to release his registration would most likely still stand though.

 

[keenzy]

but if the money goes to MSI, dosent that make us in the right about WHU being docked points?

its so confusing!

 

[sendô WHU]

I don't think it makes a difference in the docking points argument that Sheff Utd put forward, as the PL already said they felt the fine was sufficient.

I think it might make a difference with Tevez being allowed to play the last few games, and the whole ripping up the contract saga (whether it was sufficient for WH to say they'd ripped it up without MSI's agreement.)

But yes, confusing it certainly is!

 

[keenzy]

so that last 3 games would be void for tevez playing?

nothing will happen now with the season kicking off soon. if anything it will drag out through next season and might affect whu on the pitch with the saga going off.

may affect manure too, title to chelsea or liverpool?

 

[bladeswench]

I know hind site is 20/20 but it was very irresponsible of the league to considered the contract ended just on West Ham's say so that they had torn up the contract. They should have at least received a written statement from the other parties saying that indead the contract didn't exist.

I mean tearing up your mortgage contract doesn't mean you don't have to pay your mortgage anymore.

 

[happyhippy]

I don't think that's hindsight, bladeswench, just common sense.

 

[silverfox]

Yet another twist to the whole story...................

Brazilian club Corinthians, another player in the West Ham-Carlos Tevez transfer saga, have dissolved their partnership with Kia Joorabchian’s London-based sports management group Media Sports Investments.

Corinthians bought Carlos Tevez from Argentina’s Boca Juniors (as well as Javier Mascherano, from River Plate) in partnership with MSI, and won the Brazilian championship with the two players before management fell out with Joorabchian’s company and the players were sold under suspicious circumstances to West Ham.

The agreement was that MSI would finance Corinthians’ football department and be entitled to 51% of profits. In the ongoing dispute between West Ham, Joorabchian, the FA and Premier League, MSI claim to own economic rights to Carlos Tevez, who is represented by Joorabchian.

Two weeks ago, a Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of agent Kia Joorabchian, who ran MSI in Brazil, and Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who authorities said was one of the group's investors, on money-laundering charges. Corinthians are considering legal action to avoid penalties for dissolving the relationship.

"It's the end of a partnership," said Rubens Aprobato Machado, a member of the Corinthians’ executive council. "It was a unanimous decision."