Thursday 19 January 2017

Robinson in legal tangle

Karl Robinson has got caught up in a legal tangle not necessarily of his own making after Dele Ali's agent had to put his company into administration when faced with a two million pound tax bill. Robinson is a shareholder in the company and was involved in Ali's development as a player. Robinson so far has not made any comment on the matter: Off pitch problems

Charlton Athletic have stated emphatically that they have no players on their books from Impact Sports Management.

2 comments:

  1. Wyn, have to see how this one plays out but not sure you can say this is a legal tangle "not of his own making". He decided to become a shareholder in the company. If the article is correct he became a shareholder around the time of Dele Ali's transfer to Spurs. Presumably either he bought a stake in the company or was given it for 'services rendered' and/or services to be delivered. Don't know if such arrangements are commonplace in football, but doesn't smell good, especially if any such involvement with any player agents is repeated at Charlton.

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  2. In principle I agree, but I always qualify everything like this because of the law of defamation.

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