Craig 6700 Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Smarmy cunt got away with it... Wayne Rooney wins £4.3m agency pay case Wayne Rooney has defeated an attempt by his former agents to sue him for £4.3m in a payments dispute. Sports management firm, Proactive, sued the England and Man Utd player, saying he owed them commission on a number of multi-million pound deals. Rooney was not present at Manchester Mercantile Court due to being on holiday in Barbados with his family. He was signed by Paul Stretford in 2002 but the agent took Rooney with him when he left Proactive in 2008. Despite Proactive claiming he should have paid them 20% commission on his lucrative deals, Judge Brendan Hegarty QC ruled in the footballer's favour. The judge said the contract that Rooney had signed when he was a 17-year-old Everton player had amounted to a "restraint of trade" as it was up to eight years long when the Football Association recommends a maximum of two years. Judge Hegarty had postponed his verdict until after the World Cup had finished. Rooney made no payments after football agent Paul Stretford, a director and founder of Proactive, left the firm in acrimony in October 2008, taking with him their star client. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-10646388 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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