- Carlos Tevez offered £150,000 a week to become West Ham's No 1 forward
- David Sullivan says the striker turned down the contract and demanded £250,000 a week to make a return to the Irons from Boca Juniors
- The West Ham co-owner questioned the Argentine's love for the Hammers
West Ham offered to make Carlos Tevez the best-paid player in their history but claim the 32-year-old striker turned them down and demanded £250,000 per week.
Tevez was offered £150,000 – plus bonuses – and told he would be their first-choice striker next season, but he declined the offer and is set to stay at Argentinian club Boca Juniors.
David Sullivan, West Ham’s co-owner, said: ‘All this business, “I love West Ham”, well it’s “I love West Ham if they give me £250,000 a week”
West Ham offered Carlos Tevez a return to his first English club to become the best-paid player in their history
The striker, whose goals kept the Irons in the top flight in 2007, turned down the audacious move
David Sullivan says he offered the veteran striker £150,000 a week but Tevez wanted £250,000 to come back
‘So how much love is that for West Ham? I actually offered him £150,000 a week to come back plus bonuses.
‘I thought that was an incredible offer for someone who loves West Ham. And it was a huge gamble for us because he’s 33 now and hasn’t done it in South America.
‘We tried to get Tevez but he wanted £250,000 a week – and is he past his best? He hasn’t set the world alight in South America.
‘In his last year at Juventus he was great. But £250,000 a week? He’ll probably stay where he is now, but he doesn’t pay a lot of tax down there.
‘It wasn’t a publicity stunt, I saw him being our No 1 striker. I was hoping he would reproduce what he did at Juventus a year ago. He was a fantastic player. But where do you draw the line with what you are prepared to pay?’
The club’s current best-paid player is Dimitri Payet – on £100,000 per week.
Sullivan wanted Tevez to rediscover the goalscoring form of his final season with Juventus in 2014-15
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