They’re p1ssing the night away
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Chelsea should appoint bielsa if he’d take it.
It really is incredible how much the glazers back the club financially
I see Joao Felix missing the next 3 games will cost about £2m between the loan fee and his salary. Football is gone bananas
I hope he has a nice bit of a holiday in the meantime.
the forensic accountants are out again
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Will cost who 2m?
The 6 month loan is now a 5 month loan.
He cost more than Haaland and Nunez
Chelsea. They paid £9m plus over £250k a week for him for basically 21 premier league matches. So £9m plus lets say £6m salary for easy maths, £15m. £715k a game they were paying, and now he is missing three, so you can either look at it and say £2.15m ish against the wall.
Or else it’s £830k per game from now on
That’s excluding Champions League to be fair
There could be a new thread in this
Benjamin Mendy cleared of sex attacks but could face retrial
Jury fails to reach verdict on two charges in trial of Manchester City footballer
ByJack Hardy, CRIME CORRESPONDENT13 January 2023 • 12:29pm
Benjamin Mendy, the Manchester City footballer, has been acquitted of a string of sex attacks at his mansion, but is expected to face a retrial on two outstanding charges.
A jury at Chester Crown Court was discharged on Friday following a five-month trial, having failed to reach verdicts on one charge of rape and one charge of attempted rape.
The £52 million star had originally been charged with eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against seven complainants.
One of the rape charges was dropped during the course of proceedings and a jury cleared him of all but two charges earlier this week, it can now be reported.
Mr Mendy is expected to face a retrial in the summer over an allegation of rape, relating to an incident at his home in October 2020, and an allegation of attempted rape, relating to an incident at the same address in October 2018.
‘Toxic and dangerous situations’
Prosecutors had alleged the 28-year-old was “a danger to women” who used his status and wealth to lure victims into “toxic and dangerous situations” at his £4.7 million property in rural Cheshire.
But the prosecution case repeatedly hit the buffers over three months of evidence, as it emerged his accusers had misled police and had accounts riddled with inconsistencies.
The first major blow to prosecutors came in September last year, when jurors were told of a private video of one of Mr Mendy’s accusers having “enthusiastic sex” with his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, at a time she would later claim she was actually being raped by Mr Matturie.
The 20-minute mobile phone video was taken by Mr Matturie on August 1 last year, the court heard, a week after both men had allegedly raped the same woman on the same night at the footballer’s mansion.
The prosecution subsequently offered no further evidence against the defendants on the four counts relating to the complainant and they were acquitted on those charges in the middle of the trial.
‘Vile, dirty, disgusting’
Another of the complainants, who alleged she was raped by Mr Mendy at an “after party” in his mansion, admitted in court that she had not told the truth to police about the night of the alleged incident.
She had initially told police she felt “vile, dirty, disgusting” after allegedly being raped by Mr Mendy and went to bed.
However, the 23-year-old said during cross-examination that she actually went on to have sex with Jack Grealish, Mr Mendy’s Manchester City teammate, that same night.
A separate complainant, who was 17 when she alleged she was raped by Mr Mendy, was forced to deny in court that she had lied about her own sexual relations with Mr Grealish.
Jurors were told that the woman had called her boyfriend the morning after the alleged attack at Mr Mendy’s mansion and told him about what happened.
However, Eleanor Laws KC, for the defence, put it to the teenager that she had told lies to her boyfriend during the telephone call.
Ms Laws said: “Did you tell him Jack Grealish was kissing you, grabbing your head when you did not want him to?”
“No. I never said that,” she replied.
Ms Laws continued: “Because that would be a complete lie, if you said that.”
The teenager responded: “Yes. It would be a complete lie if I said that, I have not said anything like that.”
End this ‘absolute hell’
In her closing arguments, Mr Mendy’s barrister urged jurors to end the “absolute hell” he had been facing and acquit him of rape.
Ms Laws said: “His life, as he knew it is over, in football, in the UK – these accusations, he will never escape.
“Look up Ched Evans, men who have been falsely accused, they never escape them".
“Look up what’s happened since. Please just focus on the evidence and if you are not sure about these counts, please use common sense and bring an end to this absolute hell.”
She called on jurors to have “courage and conviction” when considering their verdicts.
The jury reached their verdicts on the acquittals following 12 days of deliberation.
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I’ve literally read nothing on this (including this), but I would suspect Mendy would be a simple sort of fella from his public persona.
Graylish was lurking around all of these. Sounds like the whole prosecution was based on untruths tbh. Does nobody any favours. I’m.not sure how they can think retrial can be fair.
To play devils advocate I heard Simon Jordan break it down too. He mentioned if you bought him for 70m on a 4 year contract it’s no different really to paying 9m for a 6 month contract. He went into it a bit more in depth but you get the idea.
Did Grealish not only sign for City in the summer of 2021 and I thought these incidents pre-dated that?
Mendy played the first game of the season in 2021/22 and was arrested/suspended the next day I think?
Can he play tomorrow now? Pep has injuries at the back i believe.
True, except you have no opportunity to sell him halfway through his contract and recoup some money, and no one is going to buy his jersey or anything because he’ll be gone again
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There’s another trial to get yet so I doubt you’ll see him
He’s been a disastrous signing for £50 million. I’d doubt Pep would even want to play him if he was available. He was off partying one time when he was supposed to be rehabilitating from injury.