2006-12-05 Magnusson 'not happy' with deal for Tevez and Mascherano Matt Scott Tuesday December 5, 2006 The Guardian West Ham's new chairman, Eggert Magnusson, yesterday said he would never enter into another transfer deal like the one that brought Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano to east London. Magnusson started work yesterday at Upton Park, after his consortium's £107m debt-plus-equity purchase of the club, with the message that the Argentina internationals will remain until the close season. But the Icelander is unhappy with the mechanics of their contracts. Tevez and Mascherano were brought to West Ham on transfer-deadline day in the summer for £5m in agents' fees. But the capacity for Kia Joorabchian, who holds the players' economic rights, to move them on is not a situation Magnusson will abide for long. "I think that the club should have total rights over the player. I am not happy with agents or consortiums owning players," said Magnusson. "That is not the way I want to move forward. As a football man, it is not the correct way. As chairman I can choose how we go about things." The manager, Alan Pardew, has held discussions with Joorabchian over the players' futures in recent days. Pardew is eager to retain Tevez but so disappointing has Mascherano's form been that Magnusson has explored with Fifa the possibility of his making a transfer away from Upton Park during next month's window. That, though, will not be allowed because under Fifa regulations the midfielder cannot play for another club this season. "[Tevez and Mascherano] will be staying until the summer for sure," said Magnusson. "There is no way that Fifa will allow them to play for a third club. From my experience I cannot see any loophole."Magnusson will take control of all transfer negotiations; the man who had held that portfolio - the managing director, Paul Aldridge - left the club last Friday. But for as long as Pardew remains, Magnusson is content for the manager to dictate transfer policy. "It's [Pardew's] throat that's going to be cut if you don't produce the results in the long run, so I will listen to his advice about whom he wants to buy," he said. Magnusson gave warning that his club will not be run along the lines of Chelsea and, even though the principal investor, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, is a dollar billionaire, care will be taken over expenditure. "We are not going to mark West Ham down as someone who will pay anything," said Magnusson, who will "sooner rather than later" meet Chelsea's chief executive, Peter Kenyon, about the possibility of signing Shaun Wright-Phillips.
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