The Telegraph - 8 premier league managers took a bung

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/27/exclusive-eight-premier-league-managers-took-transfer-bungs-clai/

In tomorrow's papers, according to agents 8 current/ recent premiership managers took a bung and 1 assistant manager caught on camera taking a £5 grand bung.

Eight current or former Premier League managers stand accused of receiving “bungs” for player transfers after The Telegraph found widespread evidence of corruption in the English game.

As Sam Allardyce lost his job as England manager following the Telegraph’s disclosures about his conduct, the Football Association faced a separate crisis over the alleged bribery of managers.

Football agents were filmed by undercover reporters boasting about how many managers they had paid off, with one agent saying that in football, “everything is under the table”.

Later this week the Telegraph will also disclose the name of an assistant manager at a leading club who was filmed accepting a £5,000 cash payment from undercover reporters posing as representatives of a Far East firm that wanted to invest in players.

It leaves the FA facing its biggest crisis in recent years, as it deals with evidence that attempts to clean up the game have failed whilst it also has to begin the search for a new manager of the England team.

During a series of meetings with agents, managers and club officials over the summer, undercover reporters built up a dossier of secret recordings and other evidence that suggests corruption remains a major problem in the English game.

The Telegraph has agreed to give all relevant transcripts to the Football Association and has also passed information to the police.

As well as the eight current or recent Premier League managers named by agents, two bosses of Championship clubs were said to have been open to so-called “bungs”.

Pino Pagliara, an unlicenced Italian agent who was banned from football for five years for match-fixing in 2005, spoke openly about his reliance on the “greed” of managers. 

At San Carlo, the Italian restaurant that doubles as the football world’s meeting room, the names of “bent” football managers tripped off his tongue as easily as the prosecco bubbles popped in his wine glass.

The football agent lowered his voice as he named a well-known manager who, he said, asks if there will be “a little coffee” for him if a transfer deal goes through – code for a backhander.

Warming to the subject, he described another famous manager as “very bent”, who would ask for kickbacks to be deposited in an offshore account when transfers were agreed.

Over the following hours, and during other meetings with undercover Telegraph reporters, Mr Pagliara and two other agents named a total of eight current or recent Premier League managers who they said were known for taking “bungs”, including five they said they had personally paid off.

They also named two Championship managers who, they said, had accepted bribes. They were unaware that their conversations were being recorded as part of a Telegraph investigation into corruption in football, thinking instead they were talking to representatives of a Far Eastern firm looking to invest in soccer.

With their guard dropped, the agents provided a troubling insight into a footballing nation where, according to one of them, “everything is under the table” and corruption is widespread.

By the time Mr Pagliara sat down to his lunch of king prawns followed by risotto at San Carlo in Manchester, where virtually every player, manager and agent in the north west has dined at some point, he had already held several meetings with representatives of the fictitious Far East firm, and was keen to use their supposed financial clout to further his own career in the sometimes murky world of player transfers.

He explained to the woman sitting next to him that: “There’s one thing I’ve always been able to rely on, and that is the greed of general managers.”

Asked if he meant he paid people in England, he replied, “Here it’s even worse… I thought the Italians were corrupt.” Giving examples, he said of one manager: “We know him very, very well. We do a transfer to [named club], [X] has winked at us and said yeah, I want the player. Is there a little coffee for me, Pino? Yeah, that’s what he will say. “Yeah, course there is. I’ll negotiate that coffee as well.”

He added that the manager “will probably tell me, 'OK I’ve got this guy who I work with a lot, he can put an invoice for consultancy, right, and he will do that. Nobody is stupid these days, they understand the importance of covering their tracks.”

“We will not make any payments directly to him. There’ll be a consultancy agreement with somebody who he trusts enough to let them do that and then he gets it back, that’s how it works.”

He said he could ruin the reputation of one former manager with what he knew about him, “because he’s very bent… I’ve got bank accounts of his, I’ve paid money to him, yeah course I did”.

He said the manager would call him and say “here’s the number”, and would then give him the details of a numbered account at a bank in Switzerland. “It was always numbered accounts,” he said. “I have opened so many Swiss bank accounts for managers that you wouldn’t believe.”

The same individual, who used to manage a high profile team, had also fixed a game, Mr Pagliara claimed. The manager’s representatives yesterday described the allegations as “completely false”. In several instances, he admitted that he had personally paid the officials “bungs” to secure deals.

During another meeting with undercover reporters, Mr Pagliara alleged that another manager made his own players give him kickbacks in return for increasing their wages.

He said: “There was three players, and every month they would come into his office with £4,000 cash each of them, so he was getting £12,000. What happened was when they had done the deal he said 'they’ve done the wages and you’re going to get ten grand a week, so I’m going to give you 12 grand a week and you’re going to give me four grand a month – so obviously they were getting four grand a month extra and he was getting four grand.”

The manager in question last night described the allegation as “pure fantasy”. As a general rule of thumb, the Italian agent, who was banned from football for five years in 2005 for match-fixing, said it was easier to bribe managers in the Championship because they earned less.

However, he said there were one or two in the Premier League that still took money. He named one manager who “likes money” to secure deals, adding that he “takes a few” because “he’s not being paid big money”.

The manager last night denied he had ever “taken money to facilitate football transfers”. At the meeting with the Far Eastern “businessmen”, Mr Pagliara said with a shrug: “Listen, in football everything is underneath the table… I mastered that.”

Such was his reputation, he said, that people knew “if you went into a deal with me you came out with pounds and francs”.

During his meetings with the undercover reporters, Mr Pagliara moaned about a “reformed rogue” of a manager who “used to need the money but he’s had so much now that all of a sudden he’s whiter than white”. He said: “I felt like saying '[X], you’ve had more backhanders than Wimbledon, what are you talking about?’ “You know he’s a wheeler and dealer don’t you?... he gambles 20 grand a day, he needs to make money… he’ll be earning three or four million, he still wants 50 grand in cash.”

The manager last night denied taking bungs. Another coach who has managed several British clubs was allegedly sacked by one club after being “caught with his fingers in the till”.

Known for liking a “bung”, according to Mr Pagliara, he said the former manager would get involved with the fake Far Eastern firm “providing that you understand that when we do deals I have to have a carrier bag with some cash”.

The club that sacked the manager last night said he had been dismissed because of poor results on the pitch. Yet another boss was identified as “another manager that we can put on the payroll”. Mr Pagliara said that if a player was transferred for £10 million, “we’ll turn round to [X] and say, listen, if you take this player we’ll look after you. OK? OK, boom. How much? Seven million, boom. Here’s five hundred, here’s three hundred, here’s a million.” Undercover reporters also met Mr Pagliara’s business partner Dax Price, who talked openly about the “crooked deals” he had done and the need to pay some managers to secure deals.

He said: “It’s almost like corruption is just staring you in the face, everyone’s… that is the business.” He added that not every manager needed to be paid, before naming one that was “straight”. One manager, Mr Price said, had complained to him that “people are getting back-handers left, right and centre”.

For Mr Price the rewards were clear:  Premier League TV rights meant big money for clubs, which would translate to high transfer fees for players and more commission for agents. “These new TV rights – £7.2 billion… the money’s going to be ridiculous… there’s no league in the world like the English league,” he said.

 

 

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Manager 1

Ex-Premier League manager allegedly liked “bungs” in cash or deposited in a Swiss bank account. Pagliara said: “I can call [X] now and all it is with [X] is 'How much, Pino? And will it be the same Swiss bank account?’”

Manager 2

Ex-top flight manager has had “more backhanders than Wimbledon”. Pagliara said: “This is what I hate... the guy that used to need the money but he’s had so much now that all of a sudden he’s whiter than white.”

Manager 3

After managing several British clubs, he was allegedly fired by one for having “his fingers in the till”. Pagliara said he would get involved if “you understand that when we do deals I have to have a carrier bag with some cash”.

manager 4

Pagliara said of this boss with Premier League experience: “We know him very, very well. We do a transfer, [X] has winked at us and said 'Yeah, I want the player. Is there a little coffee for me, Pino?’ Yeah, course there is.”

Manager 5

Ex-Premier League manager who, said Pagliara, would call him and say “here’s the number”, and give him details of a Swiss account. He said: “It was always numbered accounts.” 

Manager 6

A former player who now manages, he allegedly likes extra money to secure deals because he is not on a big salary at his club. Pagliara said: “[X] takes a few [inaudible] because he’s not being paid big money.”

Manager 7

Ex-Premier League manager is another “we can put on the payroll”. If a player was transferred for £10m, “we’ll turn round to [X] and say, listen, if you take this player we’ll look after you. OK? OK, boom.”

manager 8

Agent Dax Price said this long-serving manager would pick three trusted players and tell them he was paying them an extra £8,000 per month, on condition that they paid him £4,000 per month each.

 

[The Mailman 330]

Why they not giving names?

[Sparkle 53,557]

Wow, but are they going to name the names? If they do there must be evidence.

[MuirhouseBear 291]

Looks like manager 8 might be Neil Warnock.... Jason Puncheon called him out in 2014  

 

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Could Slur Alex be named 

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Gab Marcotti knows 3 of hem

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1 minute ago, AlCapone said:

Gab Marcotti knows 3 of hem

Is that a clue?

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Wonder if Celtic fans will campaign for the stripping of titles of the guilty parties

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3 minutes ago, The Mailman said:

Wonder if Celtic fans will campaign for the stripping of titles of the guilty parties

Would be hilarious if Brendan was one of them ?

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13 minutes ago, BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT said:

Could Slur Alex be named 

Is that not why he didnt speak to the bbc 

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1 minute ago, ger4life_1872 said:

Is that not why he didnt speak to the bbc 

Unsure . 

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12 minutes ago, ger4life_1872 said:

Is that not why he didnt speak to the bbc 

I think Sir Awex fell out with the bbc because they accused his son..I could be wrong..

This could be massive..Greed and Corruption of the most shocking kind..

But is this dodgy Italian guy not just making some of his claims up..??..

 

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Brrrrrendan speaking earlier on SSN , hope he's a recipient of some back handers  , strange for him to speak out when he said he had nothing to say on the matter 

 

 

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has attacked the "embarrassing" motives behind the sting operation which led to Sam Allardyce losing his job as England manager.

Allardyce's contract with the FA was terminated on Tuesday evening. Earlier in the day, Rodgers moved to defend the 61-year-old, who was appointed as manager of the national team less than three months ago.

"What a tactic that is," said Rodgers in reference to the undercover sting operation.

"The poor guy's going into a job. It's actually embarrassing to some among the profession but I've got nothing to say on it."

Rodgers confirmed he is not one of those approached but refused to comment further on the matter.

"I heard it this morning on the way in but I've nothing to add to it," said Rodgers, who is preparing his Celtic side to face Manchester City in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.

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10 minutes ago, TEFTONG said:

I think Sir Awex fell out with the bbc because they accused his son..I could be wrong..

This could be massive..Greed and Corruption of the most shocking kind..

But is this dodgy Italian guy not just making some of his claims up..??..

 

Cool i thought it was about him/his son/agents but not something i know much about , 

Yeah i think some of it could just be agents etc overplaying what they can get done and who they can get involved for them etc but i dont think the papers would be running the stories without being sure about some of it 

[WadeWilson 4,670]

Now where have I heard this story before...?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5357822.stm

'Mr Collymore, who was secretly filmed for the BBC programme, Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets, said he knew eight Premiership managers who would accept bungs.'

Lord Somebody-or-other was conducting the cover up investigation. That was only ten years ago last week, right enough. Maybe he's still looking.

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28 minutes ago, TEFTONG said:

I think Sir Awex fell out with the bbc because they accused his son..I could be wrong..

This could be massive..Greed and Corruption of the most shocking kind..

But is this dodgy Italian guy not just making some of his claims up..??..

 

It's rife,  read a great book on it years ago

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Harry Redknapp has to be one 100%!

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The Tranny Shagger won't be one of the H8ful Eight.

 

[WadeWilson 4,670]

I fear Souness may be named in this, if it is the same suspects as last time. It does say:

1 hour ago, AlCapone said:

After managing several British clubs

And not just English clubs. Which would mean we would be dragged into the Boumsong / Willie McKay shit once again.

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7 minutes ago, WadeWilson said:

I fear Souness may be named in this, if it is the same suspects as last time. It does say:

And not just English clubs. Which would mean we would be dragged into the Boumsong / Willie McKay shit once again.

Rangers died.

[WadeWilson 4,670]

I fear Souness may be named in this, if it is the same suspects as last time. It does say...

1 hour ago, AlCapone said:

After managing several British clubs

...And not just English clubs. Which would mean we may be dragged into the whole Boumsong / Willie McKay shit once again.

Interestingly, a poster on Pie and Bovril alleges that McKay and some company were somehow involved in the Barton transfer, even though he is supposed to be bankrupt.

I personally don't know anything at all about the supposed shady world of football agents but the guy had posted some names and addresses from one of these company directors check webpages online at the time and had seemingly added two and two together...

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2 minutes ago, WadeWilson said:

I fear Souness may be named in this, if it is the same suspects as last time. It does say...

...And not just English clubs. Which would mean we may be dragged into the whole Boumsong / Willie McKay shit once again.

Interestingly, a poster on Pie and Bovril alleges to have proof that McKay and some company were somehow involved in the Barton transfer, even though he is supposed to be bankrupt.

I personally don't know anything at all about it but the guy had posted some names and addresses from one of these company directors check webpages online at the time.

 

Brrrrendan managed a Welsh Club remember , Swansea 

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23 minutes ago, WadeWilson said:

I fear Souness may be named in this, if it is the same suspects as last time. It does say:

And not just English clubs. Which would mean we would be dragged into the Boumsong / Willie McKay shit once again.

I believe you'll find that our chairman took most of that, just like the cousin deal 

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Rogers has managed Swansea Liverpool and them, why not say just Premier League clubs? Obviously they want to highlight a Scottish one

Me, I hope it is the scum tranny shagging wanker