The Daily Telegraph and its revelations

[l4toffee]

If this isn't Rooney I'll eat my hat..

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...l-endemically-corrupt-player-transfers-agents

A starlet at a Premier League club is to be promoted to the first team. His agent has represented him since the age of 16 and they enjoy a good relationship. Then, the manager informs a different registered intermediary (the official term) the player will be catapulted from earning a few hundred pounds a week into the £20,000-a-week bracket. What else is the intermediary, who does not represent the young hopeful, told?

Dan Chapman, a lawyer and intermediary at Full Contact, a sports law firm, takes up the story. “This manager says: ‘There will be a new contract on the table for him [the player]. It’s massive. That means his agent is going to pick up a nice fee. But what I want is to destabilise the relationship between player and agent. The big agent’s fee will go to you instead.’

“The proposed new agent, who’s never spoken to the player in his life, thinks: ‘How can I destabilise him?’”

Once it was discovered that two of the player’s family members were out of work, Chapman says that both were given expensive gifts and told “‘You need to persuade your boy to sign with this guy,’ not withstanding that’s in breach of contract. It ended up in a court dispute and a settlement.”

yeah Rooney and stretford bumped John Ireland so it's likely this is the Rooney deal . BUT I'm sure Rooneys ma was working in a school.

 

[ToffeeDan]

yeah Rooney and stretford bumped John Ireland so it's likely this is the Rooney deal . BUT I'm sure Rooneys ma was working in a school.

On reflection I think some of the detail was altered, dates, ages, amounts to avoid controversy - and Rooney was still on £90 a week for a good while after his debut. The facts are basically the same with a few changes here and there.

 

[Wat Tyler]

yeah Rooney and stretford bumped John Ireland so it's likely this is the Rooney deal . BUT I'm sure Rooneys ma was working in a school.

It doesn't say anything about his mum, it might have been his brothers, cousins etc

 

[tommye]

On reflection I think some of the detail was altered, dates, ages, amounts to avoid controversy...

...The facts are basically the same with a few changes here and there.

So, not Rooney then.

 

[degsy]

any 'slaps on wrist with wet bus ticket' issued yet?

No?

What a surprise - nothing to see - move on.