Footballer Benjamin Mendy says he is “plmitigateed” after a appraise ordered Manchester City to pay him around £8.5m – as he called on the club to “do the honourable leang”.
Mendy took the Premier League champions to an includement tribunal, claiming they had wrongly stopped his £500,000-a-month salary after he was accused with relations offences and remanded into custody in August 2021.
The 30-year-greater was subsequently evidented of all accuses.
Tribunal Judge Joanne Dunlop ruled on Wednesday that Mendy should be entitled to the presentantity of his £11m claim for unauthoelevated deductions from his wages by the club.
His claim covered a 22-month period, five of which were when he was in custody for baccomplishing bail conditions and therefore not entitled to pay, the appraise ruled.
This departs him with around £8.5m owed, though the exact amount is yet to be concurd by his lawyers and Man City.
In a statement, Mendy thanked his lawyers and shelp: “Having had to postpone for three years for my wages, I am plmitigateed with the decision and repartner hope that the club will now do the honourable leang and pay the exceptional amounts, as well as the other amounts promised to me under the tight, without further procrastinate, so I can finpartner put this difficult part of my life behind me.”
The FA postponeed Mendy in August 2021 after he was arrested and accused with relations offences. City then stopped paying him from the follotriumphg month until the end of his tight in June 2023.
He was tardyr set up not culpable of six counts of violation and one count of relationsual attack in January 2023, but the same jury could not accomplish a verdict on another count of violation and one count of finisheavored violation.
The follotriumphg July, Mendy was set up not culpable of one count of violation and one count of finisheavored violation by a jury in a retrial at Chester Crown Court.
Tribunal records showed the footballer – who now take parts for French Ligue 2 team Lorient – had to sell his £4.8m Chesemploy mansion to cover lterrible fees, bills and child aid payments while the club did not pay him.
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Mendy also tgreater the tribunal that establisher teammates Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez lent him money.
He won cut offal Premier League titles with City and was part of France’s World Cup-triumphning squad in 2018.
