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If Tevez isn't signed, you have one guy likely already settled(Hargreaves) and two guys Nani and Anderson that will surely not be settled their first year. You really don't even know if either will settle as the track record of S. American's succeeding in the EPL is not long. But who knows though I am of course speculating. Maybe Nani will be comfortable because cronaldo is there.

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Of course there is risk. But "house of cards" suggests undue risk like, for example, going into next year relying on Giggs Scholes Saha to play 40 games of 90 minutes. I think the moves for Nani and Anderson at least will free those guys up for rest in relatively unimportant games while simultaneously developing a core for the future. Ignoring finances (why not? I don't have to pay the fees), it seems like a great set of moves for both the short and long term.