{"id":425464,"date":"2011-05-17T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/17\/fa-to-investigate-givet-signing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:55:19","slug":"fa-to-investigate-givet-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/fa-to-investigate-givet-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"FA to investigate Givet signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58.3548387097\">\n<div readability=\"51.644295302\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52788000\/jpg\/_52788972_givet.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Gael Givet\" \/> Givet played in the Champions League final with Monaco in 2004<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The Football Association has confirmed that it will investigate evidence sent to it regarding Blackburn&#8217;s signing of defender Gael Givet.<\/p>\n<p>Givet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3584261\/FA-in-50k-bung-probe.html\">claimed in The Sun<\/a> that he was forced to pay money to an unlicensed &#8220;agent&#8221; for helping facilitate a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/b\/blackburn_rovers\/8120750.stm\">\u00a33.5m move to Rovers<\/a> from Marseille in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The FA will look at the evidence before deciding whether to pursue the matter.<\/p>\n<p>FA regulations state that licenced agents are the only third party allowed to be paid for a transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be looking into the material and the issues that may be raised by the content,&#8221; said an FA spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Givet, who has won 13 caps for France, joined Blackburn from French side Marseille initially on loan in January 2009 before signing a permanent deal that summer.<\/p>\n<p>Since his permanent switch, he has made 69 appearances for Rovers, scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13422986.stm\" title=\"FA to investigate Givet signing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FA to investigate Givet signing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Givet played in the Champions League final with Monaco in 2004 The Football Association has confirmed that it will investigate evidence sent to it regarding Blackburn&#8217;s signing of defender Gael Givet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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