Benjamin Mendy - City lose case and Mendy awarded £11m in back pay (p168)

[thismeansfour]

Yes iv no problem with that. City should also claim remuneration for not having a player available due to incarceration and also not being able to obtain a transfer fee.

Why should then club suffer because the player erm acted in a way that is deemed deplorable?

Our name getting dragged through the mud again is also not something we agreed to.

But he didn't commit a crime? Being a shagger shouldn't mean he gets wrongly accused of a horrible crime and his career and pocket suffer? Being wrongly accused of something is out of his hands surely? Christ if Walker is alright then anybody is.

 

[northmr8]

I agree with this totally. I don’t understand why Mendy didn’t claim loss of earnings from the police because of false arrest. Hopefully we can recover something from them?? Any lawyers who can advise on this situation??

Being found not guilty does not equate to false arrest

 

[jaiguruKun]

We don't have to pay him for the period he was in custody so it'll be about £6m to £7m we owe him in total.

 

[ancoats]

Once he was found not guilty it right he was paid by Man City

Your right,
But football contracts are difficult and all sorts of things are in place that a player needs reach or make under the rules in place.

I think with this case being in Covid lockdown time the player can have a little leeway if the rules are broken and out of his control, Being locked up and charges against him the Club have no other option, But the Player cleared his name in court and is a free man,

City will need to pay him what he is owed in wages

BBC

Mendy to receive majority of unpaid wages Man City
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Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will "receive the majority of his unpaid salary" from the Premier League club, a judge has ruled.

The France defender, who was charged with rape and sexual assault in August 2021, took City to an employment tribunal to claim around £11m before tax in unpaid wages after he was suspended without pay from September 2021 until he left the club in June 2023.

The 30-year-old was cleared in 2023 of a series of rape and attempted rape charges made against him.

Judge Joanne Dunlop ruled City were entitled to withhold Mr Mendy’s salary for the periods during which he was remanded in custody which accounted for approximately five months of the 22 months he was not paid.

A Football Association suspension meant he was unable to fulfil his contractual obligations when he was not in custody and the judge said the club was not entitled to withhold Mendy's pay during this time.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Been our worst week for a good few years.

 

[HelloCity]

Been our worst week for a good few years.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

 

[give it to gordon]

Your right,
But football contracts are difficult and all sorts of things are in place that a player needs reach or make under the rules in place.

I think with this case being in Covid lockdown time the player can have a little leeway if the rules are broken and out of his control, Being locked up and charges against him the Club have no other option, But the Player cleared his name in court and is a free man,

City will need to pay him what he is owed in wages

BBC

Mendy to receive majority of unpaid wages Man City​

​

Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will "receive the majority of his unpaid salary" from the Premier League club, a judge has ruled.

The France defender, who was charged with rape and sexual assault in August 2021, took City to an employment tribunal to claim around £11m before tax in unpaid wages after he was suspended without pay from September 2021 until he left the club in June 2023.

The 30-year-old was cleared in 2023 of a series of rape and attempted rape charges made against him.

Judge Joanne Dunlop ruled City were entitled to withhold Mr Mendy’s salary for the periods during which he was remanded in custody which accounted for approximately five months of the 22 months he was not paid.

A Football Association suspension meant he was unable to fulfil his contractual obligations when he was not in custody and the judge said the club was not entitled to withhold Mendy's pay during this time.

Hang on, your last paragraph. The FA suspension him not City.
So the FA stop him from playing for City so shouldn't he be suing the FA and not City. It was the FA that stopped him from playing.
He broke his contract with City as the FA made him unavailable.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Fingers crossed. Either way, in here for it.

 

[bellsouth]

Four defeats in a row

 

[SSBlue]

Hang on, your last paragraph. The FA suspension him not City.
So the FA stop him from playing for City so shouldn't he be suing the FA and not City. It was the FA that stopped him from playing.
He broke his contract with City as the FA made him unavailable.

I'm not a lawyer but ...

Mendy's contract was with City not the FA. City would have had to pay Mendy's wages whether he was suspended by the FA or not.

Our only claim against the FA would be for compensation based on them "wrongfully" suspending him. That's not a case anyone wants to see.