Tevez has spoken today about the reasons why he left Manchester United and he cites the main reason as being Berbatov.

I already knew Tevez was a manipulative munchkin but this just confirms it.

There are already a lot of Manchester United fans that haven’t taken to Berbatov, Tevez would have known this so citing him as the reason why he “had” to leave is just a little below to belt to my mind.

It will just make the Tevez fans more anti-Berbatov when what Berby needs right now is 100% support and backing, he is the Manchester United player, Tevez isn’t and never really was.

Tevez says, “I did not feel supported after United signed Berbatov because I was the man for the job he was bought to do.”

Umm… no… Tevez and Berbatov are chalk and cheese, Berbatov was bought to do everything that Tevez could NOT do. Similarly, Tevez was in the squad to bring something different to the table that Berbatov could not provide.

He continues, “When I arrived I had to fight for a place like any other player. My first season was good. I was a starter or a substitute, but I respected that. But in my second year, after the match against Liverpool [on Sept 13], the coach started to overlook me.”

So, he was happy to fight for his place when he had no competition but he is admitting that he couldn’t compete with Berbatov.

Sir Alex Ferguson has never been one to keep faith with a player just because he cost a lot of money and he would have had no qualms about dropping Berby if it meant silverware.

The fact of the matter is that Tevez actually played more minutes last season than Berbatov did, he was never overlooked, he was given his chances in many important games, he was just a member of the squad and he was expected to fit into the rotation policy that Fergie has operated for well over ten years now.

As an indication of just how much Manchester United REALLY valued Tevez, they offered the full asking price of his owner and offered to make him one of the best paid players at the club.

Tevez turned it down.

It didn’t come “too late”, it wasn’t about other players that United had signed, it wasn’t that Tevez didn’t “feel loved”.

He just received a better offer from elsewhere and I wish Tevez would just come out and say this instead of putting all the blame on another player who is guiltless but under enough pressure to perform without an ex-teammate sticking the boot in on his way out of the door.

Git.