Manchester United supported a 2012 agreement at sign Eden Hazard Due to the demands of the player’s agent for “secrets” payments, a report explained more than a decade later.
Hazard was the hottest saga of summer transfer in Europe 13 years ago. The young Belgian had helped Lille say goodbye to a French league and a double French cup in 2010/11 and was willing to take the next step of his career.
The Tottenham Hotspur and the Nouveau-Rice Manchester City were among the clubs that followed the danger, as were Manchester United. It is believed that the Old Trafford Club, which reaches the end of the time of Sir Alex Ferguson, has agreed to a transfer fee with Lille and personal terms with the player.
Only The times He has revealed that things were broken down when John Bico, who represented Hazard until 2014, “demanded a huge backhander.” He is supposed to have requested 1 million pounds paid from United, as well as “several millions more direct of the owners”, who would have remained outside the club accounts.
The United refused to participate in a “clear breach” of both the Premier League and UEFA regulations.
There is no suggestion that Hazard himself became aware of the practices of his agent, who has also been extradited from the United Arab Emirates to deal with the accusations of financial crimes in Belgium in a separate case.
But where United Was not interested in danger anymore, although the club had been holding the tabs since the age of 15, Chelsea Finally, he sealed the transfer that was based on much of his success in the countryside over the next seven years. Blues even managed to cause their investment when the player was sold Real Madrid In 2019 for up to 146 million euros.
However, the transfer (specifically any agreement between Chelsea and Bico) is now the subject of an ongoing Premier League research. When the Todd Boehly consortium assumed control of the former owner Roman Abramovich in 2022, they reported the club to the Premier League and the UEFA on alleged irregular payments related to transfers that had been made under the Old Regime.
There are allegations That Abramovich paid £ 6 million to Bico through an offshore company. The Chelsea was also investigated in 2023 for payments to out -of -sea companies related to the transfers of Samuel Eto’o, Willian and others, about a decade ago.
