I'm possibly misremembering or misunderstanding but wasnt there some documents in Der Spiegel with someone at City sending the money to the Abu Dhabi club?
Something like that. Can't remember the details, though. Will look later. Probably something to do with Italian "tax planning". Difficult to know without knowing how it was accounted for, which is the problem with a few emails presented without context. And, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how the payments to Mancini were funded. All that matters is valid contracts that were properly performed.
The purpose of the contract was probably to ensure that RM didn't take a job elsewhere in the meantime.
That however is irrelevant. If the agreed services were rendered by RM and paid for by Al Jazeerah, that's an end of it.
Link to the 50+ page PDF here:
The first 2 payments were paid from a MCFC account "MCFC Stadium Oper..." to "Roberto Mancini Sparklegrow" via an Italian bank. See pDF pages 19 and 22.
My eyes are fucked, but are there different font types in the same documents?Link to the 50+ page PDF here:
The first 2 payments were paid from a MCFC account "MCFC Stadium Oper..." to "Roberto Mancini Sparklegrow" via an Italian bank. See pDF pages 19 and 22.