Ex-Man City executive Omar Berrada denies making Benjamin Mendy promise

Former Manchester City executive Omar Berrada has denied giving Benjamin Mendy's agent "assurances" he would receive unpaid wages if he was cleared of sex offences.

Ex-Blues defender Mr Mendy is suing City for £11.5 million in "authorised deductions" from his pay whilst he was accused of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault. He was later found not guilty of all the charges.

The French World Cup winner has taken the club to an Employment Tribunal over the payments. The hearing has been told the club stopped paying him his £500k a month salary in September 2021, after he was charged with the first set of offences.

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He spent a total of five months in custody, and when released was subject to strict bail conditions, as well as an interim suspension order by the Football Association (FA) which prohibited him in taking part in "any football-related activity."

Mr Mendy says the restrictions that stopped him from being able to play were a consequence of the unproven allegations against him and that under the terms of his £6 million a year, six-year contract, the club were not entitled to deduct his pay, but that they did so contrary to section 13 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

His contract showed he would also receive a £900,000 bonus for appearing in 60 percent of matches, a £1 million bonus if City qualified for the Champions League, and an annual £1.2m payment to his image rights company.

His contract expired in June 2023, before he was cleared of the final two charges against him after retrial the following month. The money withheld over a period of 22 months was never repaid with Mr Mendy