As far as I can tell the only thing threatening another FA enquiry is the title of this thread. Bear that in mind before threatening to kill tabloid journalists for whom stirring up controversy is the very essence of their job. Looks like they have succeeded again. Simple solution: don't read this type of paper and even if you can't help yourself certainly don't drag their nonsense onto this board.
Please people come to your senses. Why are any of you getting worried???? It says it all when the say "the FA are being urged to investigate", which in the Sun translates to - We ****ed up royally over the last investigation when we said they were getting 12 points deducted, so now we're printing this bollocks in the vain hope you'll look in to it. As far as I'm aware you can pay an agent whatever you like, it's you decision, as long as you declare it in the paper work. Do you think someone like Phil Beard or Amit and Tony would allow anything remotely smelly to happen at the club after what happened 6 months ago????
Football Willie McKay today insisted he has done nothing wrong amid claims Queens Park Rangers paid £2.5million to representatives who helped negotiate Joey Barton's free transfer from Newcastle. McKay is Barton's agent but it has been reported that he acted on behalf of QPR in the deal - while the player represented himself - and is believed to have received more than £1.3m for his services following the move last month. Agents are permitted to be paid for work involving transfers but the amount QPR have allegedly spent has come to the attention of the Football Association following a call from Newcastle. However, McKay told Standard Sport: "I am not concerned. The figures that have been mentioned are way off the mark and I have done nothing wrong. It is a non‑story as far as I'm concerned." When asked if he feared he would be investigated by the FA, he added: "Not at all." Barton made his debut in Monday's goal-less draw with Newcastle at Loftus Road. QPR chief executive Peter Beard has also disputed the £2.5m figure and told The Sun: "I'm not going to confirm any of the club's private transactions." McKay has made the headlines before, having been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting in 2007 but he was cleared a year later. Then in 2008 he was handed a suspended ban by the FA for breaching regulations by acting for two different clubs in two consecutive transfers of Portsmouth and Manchester City striker Benjani. Like our QPR page for automatic updates on your Facebook wall iReader
No third party ownership. Nothing rushed through 10 mins before deadline. Unless there's someone as corrupt as a NOTW journalist drawing up contracts, I'm not likely to lose sleep.
I don't see what all the fuss is about or where the wrong doing is. This is just the rags sensationalising a snippet of info to sell copy. Forget about it lads. For those that are interested in the finer points, this is how I see it. The Sun article implies the deal was structured to avoid tax. I agree, it probably was. But tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion is not. Every tax payer has the right to structure their personal affairs to minimise their tax exposure. The UK has a thriving tax profession that relies on this very thing. The way I see it Customs & Excise are not out of pocket. So Joey structured the deal to avoid paying income tax on the fee paid to the agent. Good for him. But in that scenario Willie McKay is still liable for income tax on the fee he received. If McKay had represented Barton, Barton would have had to declare the Agent fee as taxable income received from QPR, but he'd also have been responsible for paying Mckay and therefore would have had an off-setting deduction (against income) for the amount paid to McKay. Net $0. So who cares? QPR did not benefit from the way the deal was structured. They paid the agreed upon fees and signing on bonus. It's not QPR's responsibility to provide tax advice to Barton or his/their agents.
**** me Cayman a real ITK at last!A top summary,is there anyway you could get involved in our future transfer dealings,he he?
I do think the media has it in for us in this country some times. Of course Agents were paid in the Barton move, of course parties try and avoid tax where legal. What a load of rubbish! The Sun and the Mail are Chelski loving crap papers!!
there's no such thing as a free transfer agents always have there snouts in the trough thats where most of the money goes players and agents its a fact of life.
