Footballer Benjamin Mendy says he’s “delighted” after a choose ordered Manchester Metropolis to pay him round £8.5m – as he referred to as on the membership to “do the honourable thing”.
Mendy took the Premier League champions to an employment tribunal, claiming that they had wrongly stopped his £500,000-a-month wage after he was charged with intercourse offences and remanded into custody in August 2021.
The 30-year-old was subsequently cleared of all expenses.
Tribunal Choose Joanne Dunlop dominated on Wednesday that Mendy must be entitled to nearly all of his £11m declare for unauthorised deductions from his wages by the membership.
His declare lined a 22-month interval, 5 of which had been when he was in custody for breaching bail circumstances and subsequently not entitled to pay, the choose dominated.
This leaves him with round £8.5m owed, although the precise quantity is but to be agreed by his attorneys and Man Metropolis.
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Mendy was cleared of all expenses. Pic: PA
In a press release, Mendy thanked his attorneys and mentioned: “Having had to wait for three years for my wages, I am delighted with the decision and sincerely hope that the club will now do the honourable thing and pay the outstanding amounts, as well as the other amounts promised to me under the contract, without further delay, so I can finally put this difficult part of my life behind me.”
The FA suspended Mendy in August 2021 after he was arrested and charged with intercourse offences. Metropolis then stopped paying him from the next month till the tip of his contract in June 2023.
He was later discovered not responsible of six counts of rape and one depend of sexual assault in January 2023, however the identical jury couldn’t attain a verdict on one other depend of rape and one depend of tried rape.
The next July, Mendy was discovered not responsible of 1 depend of rape and one depend of tried rape by a jury in a retrial at Chester Crown Courtroom.
Tribunal paperwork confirmed the footballer – who now performs for French Ligue 2 group Lorient – needed to promote his £4.8m Cheshire mansion to cowl authorized charges, payments and little one help funds whereas the membership didn’t pay him.
Mendy additionally advised the tribunal that former teammates Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez lent him cash.
He gained a number of Premier League titles with Metropolis and was a part of France’s World Cup-winning squad in 2018.
