What on earth is going on with the transfer of Carlos Tevez to Manchester United? Surely he should have been given a sqaud number and been photographed on the pitch with Alex Ferguson by now? What is going on with West Ham, do they own him or not? If they do, they should agree a fee for his transfer and go through with it, if they don’t they should simply let the transfer go through and watch on in envy as Kia Joorabchian counts his many millions…

But they can’t because they don’t own him really, but they seem to have persuaded the Premierleague that they do own him, despite the fact that they don’t own him. Its all very complicated to me. I don’t understand how a player can play for a team for a whole season when they don’t own the player. I think the whole issue has highlighted some serious problems in the way players registrations are handled. Hopefully, after Tevez has been transferred to Manchester United, the authorities that control football will take a good look at this situation and see if there is a way that player transfers can be completely transparent, and that any future transfers can go through without any of the complications that this transfer has encountered.

I heard on the radio yesterday that Fernando Torres has agreed a £20,000,000 move to Liverpool. What is going on? Liverpool don’t usually splash that kind of cash, they certainly don’t usually sign players of his calibre. With Torres at Liverpool, will they start scoring for fun? Will they finally be able to mount a real challenge for the Premiership? Liverpool as a team have been getting better since Rafa arrived. They won the Champions League in 2005 in Rafa’s debut season as manager. He’s finished 5th, 4th and 3rd in the Premiership since he arrived, even the most sceptical of Liverpool supporters must concede that he has improved since he’s been in charge. But can he take the them to the next level?

I firmly believe that lies in the hands of Man Utd and Chelsea. Let’s face it, Arsenal are a team that are building for the future, they’ve just lost Henry, next season will be another season of flux. They’ve got too many young players and not enough experience. I believe, if Wenger stays on after next season, then Arsenal will again become a force in the Premiership. So it really is down to Ferguson and Mourinho. If they can keep the momentum going then Liverpool will find it very hard to catch, even with Fernando Torres, who will no doubt bring Liverpool that illustrious 20+ goals in a season, something they’ve been missing for a while.

But is the Chelsea team a bit too long in the tooth? Take a look at the main players in the team:

• Terry, 27 - no, he’s got years of good football ahead of him.
• Lampard - 29, a few more good years left.
• Makalele - 34, needs replacing.
• Ballack - 30, a few more good years, but look his commitment (or lack of).
• Shevchenko - 30, a couple more years, but his pace will wane.
• Drogba - 29, he’ll be a useful asset for a few more years yet
• Carvalho - 29 - years of useful service left

So when you look at the ages of the Chelsea team, they really need to be bringing in some younger players. When you compare with Man United, its fairly easy to see which team is looking forward, with all the younger players in the United team, and the experienced players that have been bought in, like Hargreaves and Carrick who still have plenty of miles left on the clock being only 26 years old.

I don’t think Liverpool will win the Premiership next season, but I think they will make it closer. Wouldn’t it be good to have a three horse race, rather than a two horse race like last season?

Its been a story ever since the season finished in May, but it keeps on making an appearance in the papers. Even Paddy Crerand, of MUTV fame and former player of course suggests that Gaby will move this summer. As Crerand points out, Heinze won’t be happy sitting on the bench, now that Evra has become the first choice left back.

I don’t see it that way. I see that when Man United are playing a game they expect to win comfortably, they utilise the pace and attacking flair of Evra down the left, usually linking up with Giggs. I would see this as being a good use of a left back who’s arguably not the best at defending. When United are playing a game that they don’t assume they will win comfortably, and perhaps, expect to do more defending than usually, they use Heinze. He’s arguably the best defensive left back in the Premiership, so it would make sense to use him when we need to keep and clean sheet.

Granted, the way last season went, United went into far more games expecting to win comfortably than not, which meant that Evra got the nod more than Heinze. However, Heinze still got to play in a lot of games, and don’t forget, the first few months of the season he was still struggling with his knee, you could see he was easing himself back into playing in the first team.

I think it will be a shame if we have to let go of Heinze. He’s been one of my favourite players for the last few seasons. Players like him and Alan Smith, give it their all, what they lack in silky skills and talent they more than make up for in commitment and drive. The team needs players like them, let players like Kieron Richardson leave, but don’t let players like Heinze leave, he’s too good.

Arsenal have agreed to transfer Eduardo Da Silva from Dinamo Zagreb for around £16m. The 24 year old has signed a four year deal at the Emirates stadium, he’ll play alongside Robin Van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor.

I guess this means that Nicolas Anelka won’t be going to Arsenal now they’ve signed Da Silva, I could be wrong, but I’ve never known Arsenal to be a big spending club. They will have spent all the money they got from selling Henry on this new player so that probably means no more signings this summer. I wonder what they’ll do about Jens Lehmman - I thought he was retiring at the end of the season just over. Maybe not. If he has though, Arsenal will need another goalkeeper, preferably one who is less mad than Lehmman.

I read in the papers yesterday that Sven, the new Manchester City FC manager is on the hunt for Nicolas Anelka, he wants to bring him back to Man City and prise him from the grasps of Arsene Wenger who is reportedly trying to sign him for Arsenal. I don’t see why Arsenal would want Anelka again, he’s not as good as Henry in my opinion, and though he will be cheaper than Henry, I believe that if Arsenal want to remain competitive they will have to find a replacement as good as Henry. They need to hit the ground running this coming season otherwise they will find that they get overtaken by Tottenham.

Will Anelka be good for Man City? I don’t know. He’s been good at Bolton, but will he prosper under Sven. Will any team prosper under Sven? England certainly didn’t, he managed to achieve very little with the talent he had at his disposal. I guess he’s a big name and City need a big name manager now that they have been bought out. Personally, I think City would have done alright if they had stuck with Stuart Pearce. Given the players he had at his disposal he did alright. Not fantastic, but alright. He was a new manager and was rather put under a lot of pressure when he really didn’t have the experience. Perhaps he shouldn’t have tried to coach the under 21’s as well as City….Then again, didn’t the under 21’s do well, getting to the semi final, better than the big boys did last summer in Germany!

I read in the Sun today that Obi is being pursued by Arsene Wenger as a replacement for “Hairy Henry”. What a joke! He’s never going to be as good as Henry was, not a million years! Wenger should keep the cash from Henry, go abroad again and uncover a jewel from some far flung corner of the French commonwealth.

Surely Wenger’s scouts have got their eye on the next Henry somewhere? Even if they don’t, Wenger can probably find a player for far less than the £11million or so that was being touted as Obi’s asking price. Nugent for instance, he’d be far less money and he’s English! Then again, Wenger’s not really a big fan of English players, just ask Francis Jeffers and Jermaine Pennant to name a few, though I think he must’ve had a soft spot for Ashley Cole to have played him for such a long time before cashing in on him by way of a switch to the dark side, sorry, I meant Chelsea.

I read on the ManUtd.com website today that he has expressed an interest in joining Man Utd. I suppose with Henry moving to Barcelona, he might struggle to get a game, unless Barca sell Eto’o.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell Eto’o than Gudjohnsen? Eto’o would fetch a similar sort of money as Thiery Henry, therefore funding the transfer of him from Arsenal. He’s also a similar player to Henry, so why would they sell Gudjohnsen who is nothing like Henry.

As a Man Utd fan, I would prefer for us to sign someone like Eto’o than Gudjohnsen, purely so that he could cover for Saha when he’s not playing. I suspect if Fergie did sign someone like Eto’o, he’d have to sell Saha to make the books balance, goes round in circles doesn’t it?

There has been so much talk about Alan Smith since he recovered from his ankle/leg break. He came back into the Man Utd team and struggled, funny that considering he’d spent 2 months or so not walking, let alone running! It takes a while to recover from a broken bone, even for superstars. But to expect them to be back to their best within 6 months or so of breaking the bone was a bit optimistic in my opinion.

He’s played some good football in the 2nd half of the season just finished. I was there for that epic Roma game, stood in the Stretford and loved every minute of it. He played well that game, amongst others. That was the sort of form he can produce, so why do they want to sell him?

I guess it comes down to money. Sell Smith, realise an asset that’s worth about £7 million so that the money men can balance their books, they need to after all, they’ve already spent close to £50 million on Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves.

But what happens if (read when) Saha gets injured again? We all saw last season that Saha was brilliant for the first half of the season, but then didn’t really manage to shake off his injuries for the 2nd half of the season. Can we really expect Solskjaer to get any younger and provide cover?

No. Man Utd need another striker, of similar quality to Saha. One that will work well with Rooney. So why sell Smith just to balance the books? If I was Ferguson, I’d keep him, get your money’s worth (or wuth in a Glaswegian accent).