Tevez's accomplishments in South America - overlooked by European sports pages - make him arguably the best player in the world.

If I had to make a choice over Tevez and Ronaldo, I wouldn't hesitate picking Tevez. Many of Ronaldo's goals were soft, against weak opponents.

Jack, San Francisco,

Dear Man U. Don't worry about losing Ronaldo. You should start planning on getting rid of Sir Alex!

35 million for Tevez? Sir Alex has snapped his stack! Find him a rubber room where he can bounce around and babble happily to himself....unless, of course, it's a typo for 3.5 million??

Barrie Collins, Long Sault, Ontario, Canada

I thought Man U had already paid £18m for him, obviously this was a leasing arrangement. £35m is crazy money, especially as he has pushed Rooney out of his best position.

Tony Gee, London,

Re: Andy

My comment isn't based on any speculative article, it's based on fact.

When we signed Tevez last summer, David Gill and Sir Alex said the fee was set to make the deal permanent at any time during the two year loan period.

David Gill repeated this week that "We know what we have to pay".

Alex, Manchester,

I think this is part of the game of chicken being played out between United ans Spurs over Berbatov.

Assuming Berbatov comes and assuming Fergie is genuine in playing Rooney as "support stiker", where does that place Tevez? Answer on the bench, which is just about where he deserves to be.

Bryan McGrath, Weston-s-Mare, England

35 million? for Carlos Tevez? Breaking the transfer record? Somebody must be round the bend! He's worth 20 at most!

Roger, Arese, Italy

re: alex
you will have read about this previous 'set in stone' agreement in a similar article to the one above, so why believe one above the other? i would suggest that the sharp operators behind tevez's recent career moves may well have held back the right to set the price at the time of signing

andy, sunderland,

Tevez worked hard and scored some important goals last season,so he is going to be very popular amongst the fans but I am yet to be convinced that he is the real deal,there were just too many games last season where he did next to nothing

I'd be surprised if Utd paid more than £20 Million for him

Fergus Sira-Lexon, England,

The permanent fee for Tevez is already in place, with it reportedly being £15 million.

There are no discussions to take place over a fee as it is already set in stone.

David Gill said this week they would address the issue in due course, but there was no panic as a year still remained on the loan

Alex, Manchester,