{"id":121697,"date":"2023-11-21T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/21\/benjamin-mendy-to-take-former-club-manchester-city-to-employment-tribunal\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:04:45","slug":"benjamin-mendy-to-take-former-club-manchester-city-to-employment-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/21\/benjamin-mendy-to-take-former-club-manchester-city-to-employment-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Mendy to take former club Manchester City to employment tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"371\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-151909-696x371.png\"   alt=\"REUTERS Image caption: Benjamin Mendy denies two charges\" title=\"REUTERS  Image caption:  Benjamin Mendy denies two charges\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Mendy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Benjamin Mendy is taking former club Manchester City to an employment tribunal over millions of pounds he claims he is owed in unauthorised wage deductions.<\/p>\n<p>France full-back Mendy, 29, left City at the end of his contract this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He was cleared of a series of rape and attempted rape charges made against him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>It is alleged City stopped paying Mendy in September 2021 after he was initially charged and held in custody.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it was confirmed leading UK sports lawyer Nick De Marco is handling Mendy\u2019s case, which amounts to a \u201cmulti-million-pound claim\u201d and it is expected the case will be heard in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy\u00a0joined Ligue 1 club Lorient\u00a0at the start of this season and he has so far made three substitute appearances for the French side.<\/p>\n<p>He joined City from Monaco in a \u00a352m deal in 2017 and won Premier League titles in 2018, 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>His final appearance for the club came in the Premier League on 15 August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy was remanded in custody for five months before\u00a0being released on bail in January 2022\u00a0and then went to trial for the first time in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In January he was\u00a0cleared of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was then cleared of\u00a0raping a woman and attempting to rape another in July at a retrial.<\/p>\n<p>City did not comment when approached by BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"JZqEZEePZBQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fishmongers: Armed robbers, bad roads, inadequate premix fuel affecting fish business (20-11-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZqEZEePZBQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mendy Benjamin Mendy is taking former club Manchester City to an employment tribunal over millions of pounds he claims he is owed in unauthorised wage deductions. 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