From what I've read, the Tevez deal is "worth" £30m all up. The first two years of salaries adding up to £5m, the option to buy him all up being somewhere between £15m and £20m and then when you throw in the extra £7.5m for salaries on the three years he'd be contracted to us for should we buy him, it'd be £5m + £7.5m (12.5m) in salaries and then £15-20m for the purchase... all up, between £27.5m and £32.5m.

If that makes sense. However, these things we'll never know. All I know is that we got a crapload better a deal than Chelsea did for the man from Ukraine.

EDIT: And I reckon a much better deal than £26m for Torres, that's for sure. I hear so much about him but whenever I watch him play I can't put him above £20m, and even then that's just based on potential rather than visible awesomeness. But yes, Mascherano for £10m is great.