Source: Daily_Mail
Charles Sale: Spurs fight agent on £500,000 claim from Wilson Palacios' transfer
Champions League contenders Tottenham face a High Court action froman agent who claims the club owe him at least £500,000 in commissionfrom his role in the £8million transfer of midfielder Wilson Palacios,who has been one of Spurs' players of the season.[LNB]Licensed middle man Faisal Kashmiri, of the Strata Sports agency,alleges in his lodged writ for damages that he was hired by Spursmanager Harry Redknapp to negotiate the Palacios move from Wigan.[LNB]High court action: Palacios' (left) transfer to Spurs is under scrutiny[LNB]Kashmiri, who was charged with breaching the FA's agents regulationsin 2008 over Nick Carle's move from Bristol City to Crystal Palace,claims he had several meetings with Wigan's then manager Steve Bruce toset up the Palacios transfer before asking Spurs what commission hewould be paid. The agent alleges he had a verbal agreement for 7.5 percent of the transfer fee.[LNB] More from Charles Sale... CHARLES SALE: Nicholls' new book rekindles old feud25/03/10 CHARLES SALE: BBC splash out on a second South Africa World Cup base23/03/10 CHARLES SALE: David Dein's solo show stuns England 2018 World Cup rivals22/03/10 EXCLUSIVE: ITV to show England's World Cup openers after BBC deal22/03/10 Charles Sale: FA make Julian Eccles a political football21/03/10 Charles Sale: Watmore on top in FA power struggle19/03/10 CHARLES SALE: LTA bring in police over bonus leaks18/03/10 CHARLES SALE: Channel 4 risk another seven-figure legal pay-out over Dispatches expose on London Marathon17/03/10 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE The court documents state that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy toldKashmiri the club had never paid more than £500,000 to an agent andthat the commission would be finalised when the deal was completed.[LNB]However, Kashmiri was not involved in the final negotiations beforePalacios signed for Spurs on January 21, 2009. That day Levy sentKashmiri an email saying the club 'only pay an agent where they providevalue and in this instance no fee is payable'.[LNB]Spurs will strongly defend the agent's claim in court. They say theydealt directly with Wigan to buy Palacios before agreeing personalterms with the player's agent, Jean Marc Goiran of the Jess group.[LNB] [LNB]With West Ham deep in relegation trouble, one of their top brass wasn't impressed on passing the popular Golden Hind chippy in London's Marylebone Lane to spot through the window the club's[LNB]under-performing Egyptian striker Mido tucking into a large portion of fish and chips. Mido (above) is only on a basic £1,000 a week at West Ham but is wealthy enough to follow a rather healthier diet, especially during the Premier League run-in.[LNB] [LNB]The bizarre happenings at Portsmouth this season now include administrator Andrew Andronikou's firm UHY Hacker Young promoting themselves on the advertising perimeter board at Fratton Park during the 5-0 defeat by Chelsea on Wednesday night.[LNB]Andronikou explained: 'There were a few advertising minutes not filled up, so we took up the opportunity, paying the going rates.'[LNB] [LNB]Ben Jacobs, who will never work for the BBC again after an exhaustive four-month inquiry concluded he was responsible for sabotaging a pre-recorded 5 Live interview with Wigan manager Roberto Martinez by inserting obscene material, has resurfaced on The Independent's sports desk on work experience. Jacobs's agent David Welch says Ben, who still denies all the allegations against him, will be taking legal action against the BBC.[LNB] [LNB]FA in Triesman scrapThe super-dysfunctional FA board are now arguing over when chairman Lord Triesman should stand for re-election for a second term. Triesman wants the vote in June 2011 at the official end of his three years in office. But his opponents believe it should be next February, which will be three years after Triesman started work at the FA, hurrying his predecessor Geoff Thompson out of office four months early.[LNB]Whatever the date, Triesman's fate will be decided at the World Cup 2018 vote in Zurich on December 2. If England win, he stays as FA chairman. If they lose, he will walk the plank.[LNB]Meanwhile, while bid leader Triesman attended the UEFA congress in Tel Aviv, strangely there was no sign of his Russian counterpart Vitaly Mutko, despite his being a UEFA rep on the FIFA executive committee.[LNB] [LNB]The London 2012 mascot to be unveiled before the football World Cup will be a digitally animated cartoon character who can multi-task to the extent that it will be seen going faster, higher and stronger at all Olympic events, online and on merchandising. The only problem now is its name.[LNB] [LNB]
