We are now ready to retain the premiership and push for the Champions League honours! We also wait how Sir Alex uses Roney, Tevez, Ronaldo and Giggs/Nani in the coming session.

Joe Lucas, London,

Hope Tevez can reinforce United's attack.

BS Liu, Foshan, PRC

finally tevez is a united player...glory !glory man united!

jul, beyrouth, lebanon

A court case would have done the Premier League good in the end. It is obvious that it's regulation is very poor. The obscene amounts of money washing around the game are attracting increasingly dubious characters and the Prem needs very firm governorship.

Thomas Maxwell, Reigate,

Finally Tevez is given a chance to really prove if he's got the goods. Thankfully, it was all solved before going to shameful court actions. I'm sure Sheffield will carry on with their complains.
Anyway, great for Manchester United...we now have what we wanted...we are good to go now. United! United! United!

Pablo Mollinedo , La Paz, Bolivia

The Premier League is a joke. West Ham have broken league rules and got away with it. They've even gone against the Premier League's ruling that they should receive the majority of the transfer fee because they wanted it settled out of court to stop everyone knowing the truth.

This is an absolute disgrace. The Premier League should be thouroughly ashamed of themselves.

Jamie, Wigan,

It's all well and good to say the authorities should "toughen up the rules" against third party agreements, but when it was put to the clubs at the AGM in June, they all rejected it. The clubs want it, and so the FA and FIFA have been turning a blind eye to it for years. Now that the issue has come to the fore they have completely ducked it.

It will be interesting to see the media take on Tevez "ownership" now. For months, it has been reported that third party agreements/ownerships are "illegal" without any effort to distinguish between that and West Ham's offense which involved certain clauses only. Now Tevez is at Man Utd and Mascherano at Liverpool, no-one questions the fact that these are still deals involving third parties, and the players are not at all "owned" by the clubs they are registered with.

I suspect that the clauses that got West Ham in trouble, will still be employed by Man U & Liverpool but will as exist as "gentlemen's agreements" only.

Matthew, Warrington, UK

What Oliver says, absolutely. I hope it all doesn't end here, for the sake of football

Jeff, Scarborough, UK

i can belive what we have bay
i want to see the new seasion i can wait to see how we win in all of the game i meane

niki, tetov, macedonia

This whole saga has been a sham, played out by Westham & the agent just long enough to try and make it look like both sides honestly believed they were in the right and therefore sticking to their principals. Truth be they are both as guilty as each other, yet the only thing they'll have to avoid tripping over as they walk away is the deluge of cash that will conveniently come there way from United!

Peter, Wellington, NZ

The whole thing clearly stinks. Are there one set of rules for some and a different set for the others.... small clubs like Sheffield United, say?

Eric Sandelands, Middlesbrough, UK

Ronaldo, Rooney, Nani, Anderson, Hargreaves and now Tevez. I wonder which team in the EPL can compete with this line up. This will send shivering shocks to other teams incl. Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.

John, london,

Tevez will certainly strengthen United's chances of at least a double this season. No fewer than 25 goals will be harvested directly from Tevez this term.

Efe Isioro, Lagos, Nigeria

The fact that KJ/MSI have reportedly settled for £2M rather than the contracted £100K demonstrated quite clearly the Hammer's strong legal position over Carlos Tevez's "playing rights" (Mr McCabe please note).
In affect he was unable to move without their assent and, in addition, they have been able to put a value to their ownership of his registration.
Ironically if KJ/MSI had signed and returned copies of the second (December )contract to West Ham/PL (West Ham sent their copy to the Premier League in February) there would have been no need for this latest episode of the Tevezgate saga.

R. BrinkloW, Loughborough, UK

The amount of £ 2 mio which is going to be paid to West Ham is almost the part of the fine which was imposed on WHU for breeching the "third party-rule" (£ 2,5 of the £ 5,5 mio). I think the "explosive document" of Dec 1st wasn't that bad for West Ham because if Kia Joorabchian would have agreed to make this amendment to the initial contract there wouldn't have been any breech of the "third party rule". West Ham's lawyers must have argued very well in the talks which led to the out of court settlement. Now Kia has to make a decent contribution to the fine, in my opinion that's a fair and satisfying result in the end.

W. Berger, Vienna, Austria

I was reading something about man utd's net outlay. owen hargreaves' transfer is apparently on next years accounts, since it went through july 1st. Nani and Anderson must have conditional transfers with initial being around 10m each. and tevez for 10m for 2 years is a pretty good deal.
along with the 18m from rossi, richardson and smith, not to mention heinze's immenent transfer to "anywhere but anfield", and the money from the title and new TV deals, looks like united have done some decent shopping this summer.
highlight the fact that tevez is 23, nani and anderson are 20 and 19 respectively, and hargreaves is 26, the team will hardly need much strengthening in years to come.

as for the season tickets. its being blown out of all proportion. its a well known fact that since the expansion of old trafford, there are a load of yearly season tickets, thats why there are so many ad's about. this happened last year too. 73,000 for inter milan friendly, will be hard to get a seat at OT.

Dips, hayes, middx

It is indeed relieving that this whole entangled deal is over. While everybody involved were so busy arguing about who said who and the rest of the soap opera, there was a player that could not start pre-season training with his new club, despite the consequences this can carry, and there were fans eager to see this whole thing done for good.
Tevez is a fighter in every sense, so I am sure he will give his best and prove he's more than worth the wait and the money.
I have seen Tevez play since he started in Boca Juniors years ago, and believe, the guy is beyond great.
GO TEVEZZZZ!!!!!!

Liliana, Morud, Denmark

Even if it does go through, there are still lots of questions to be asked.

1) How will the relegated clubs feel about such a blatant cover-up?
2) Will Tevez finally get rid of Joorabchian when United buy him in two years?
3) Which new starlets are MSI going to get their greasy hands on next?

Pat, Manchester,

Summary of the story so far:

West Ham richer club with bigger support than Sheff Utd - Premier Legue verdict - West Ham win, Sheff Utd sh@fted;

Man Utd richer club with bigger support than West Ham - Premier League verdict - Man Utd win, West Ham sh@fted.

Moral of the story is, if you have more money and fans the Premier League will help you get whatever you want.

Weak the Premier League may be but at least they're consistent!

Whispy, York, England

the secrecy and acceptance of apparently irregular contractual arrangements are a disgrace, but they are by no means the biggest disgrace in football, which is corrupt from top to bottom.

jem, london, uk

The cashflow management continues at MUFC. Smith, Richardson and Rossi out for £18M (or thereabouts) only Hargreaves in for 'hard' cash of guess what £18M.

Nani, Anderson are bought on the 'never never' just like Tavez.

Interesting that MUFC actually have season tickets left, although I suspect they will go by the start of the season. The Glazers have finally maximised the income stream from the ground (after the cup ticket scam), now to maximise income from the Far East (what is the betting on a friendly in China just about the time of the FA CUP 3rd round?

Bryan McGrath, Weston-Super-Mare,

It would have done football good to have this disgraceful saga fully disclosed in court. The failure of the authorities to deal with this in a credible way should lead to multiple sackings or resignations at the highest level. It is also necessary to toughen up the rules - a complete ban on entering into arrangements with intermediaries, with a 10 point deduction as the minimum penalty, not the maximum. Every penny of profit that these intermediaries make comes straight out of the pockets of the fans (and that matters, because football fans are not customers in the normal sense, as they cannot change to a different supplier if they are ripped off).

Oliver Chettle, Bedford,

Finally it appears to be over.
Let's hope its worth the wait and the money.

Mark Benjamin, London,

thanks be to god. we are now on the plains of the gods.

cabell, london, uk