Fury as Hammers reveal new deal for Tevez

The Argentina striker, signed from Brazilian club Corinthians on transfer deadline day last August, is almost certainly playing his last game for West Ham at Manchester United today before a move abroad.

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But in a further twist that will infuriate relegation rivals Wigan and Sheffield United, his representative, Kia Joorabchian, expects to hold talks with West Ham chairman Eggert Magnusson next week to re-negotiate the deal that led to West Ham being fined in the first place.

The likely scenario is that a new deal will be thrashed out that allows Joorabchian to benefit from the sale but which also complies with Premier League rules, as it would not allow the representative to control the sale.

Relegation rivals Sheffield United and Wigan, who play each other today, will be furious that a contract with Joorabchian's company, MSI, can be so easily reestablished, even if the procedure is within the rules.

The Premier League are aware of the situation but that will only further anger Wigan chairman Dave Whelan and his Sheffield counterpart, Kevin McCabe.

The pair have grown increasingly hostile to Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore and disillusioned with his handling of the dispute, which erupted at the end of last month. An independent Premier League commission fined West Ham but resisted pressure to dock points, even though the contract the club had with MSI and Tevez was deemed to break League rules.

West Ham then wrote to MSI and Tevez to terminate the third-party agreements relating to MSI's involvement in club affairs, which enabled them to comply with Premier League rules and allowed Tevez, West Ham's player of the year, to play in the last three games of the season.

Charlton, Wigan, Sheffield United and Fulham have claimed that West Ham could still be breaking League rules because MSI have not agreed to the termination of the contract. While it is true that Joorabchian has not endorsed West Ham's termination of the deal, The Mail on Sunday understands that he is not worried about their stance.

Negotiations will enable West Ham to formalise the agreements in accordance with Premier League rules and are expected to confirm that Joorabchian will benefit financially if the player is sold this summer.

If negotiations prove satisfactory to both parties, it will prevent MSI from taking West Ham to court to claim that the original contract should never have been terminated.

Liverpool negotiated a similar agreement with Joorabchian over Javier Mascherano when Tevez's fellow Argentinian moved from West Ham, which also proved acceptable to the Premier League.