Club suing Willie McKay

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

From the Supporters' Trust

EXCLUSIVE: Cardiff City Take Legal Action Against Willie McKay In Sala Case:

The Trust understands from senior sources at Cardiff City that the football club is suing Willie McKay, who was involved in the transfer of Emiliano Sala from FC Nantes.

Trust Chair Keith Morgan said: "I understand the legal action against Mr McKay is for the release of documents and data, which the club believes, will prove beyond doubt that he was the agent for the Sala transfer and strengthen their ongoing legal proceedings against Nantes.

"This is an important and significant move by the club in its court action against the French club."

[Tuerto]

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From the Supporters' Trust

EXCLUSIVE: Cardiff City Take Legal Action Against Willie McKay In Sala Case:

The Trust understands from senior sources at Cardiff City that the football club is suing Willie McKay, who was involved in the transfer of Emiliano Sala from FC Nantes.

Trust Chair Keith Morgan said: "I understand the legal action against Mr McKay is for the release of documents and data, which the club believes, will prove beyond doubt that he was the agent for the Sala transfer and strengthen their ongoing legal proceedings against Nantes.

"This is an important and significant move by the club in its court action against the French club."

I would hope that none of our previous managers had anything to gain by allowing McKay's involvement.....Ahem....Cough.....

[Enoch Mort]

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The last update Keith Morgan sent to Trust members on 13 December said

A large element of their defence appears to be that they don't recognise Willie McKay as their agent and instead dealt with a different company as agent (a "shell" company which lists its directors as Willie McKay's son and wife and which at the time had no trading records filed at Companies House).Reliable sources at Cardiff City have told me that the club has copious amounts of documents disproving Nantes defence.

This must be the next step in trying to dismantle Nantes' defence against our claim

[PontBlue]

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Would he keep a paper trail and if there was wouldn't shady companies from Panama and its ilk be involved which means almost no chance of of records being handed over.

[JumpersforGoalposts]

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Would he keep a paper trail and if there was wouldn't shady companies from Panama and its ilk be involved which means almost no chance of of records being handed over.

If he was operating as self employed and domiciled in the UK then he is obliged to keep all records relating to UK commercial and taxation laws. These have to be kept for 5 years after the relevant tax assessment deadline. The relevant tax year would have been 2019/20 with a submission deadline of Jan 2021, so he cannot legally destroy any such records until Feb 2026.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Yeah, his records might well have gone the same way as Johnson and Sunak's WhatsApp messages.

[TWGL1]

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Yeah, his records might well have gone the same way as Johnson and Sunak's WhatsApp messages.

If they really wanted to release them they would be easily able to be recovered. Keep up at the back

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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This rat is still involved in football:

https://x.com/sportspeteo/status/1735735497421443314?s=46&t=YiFU3ZV43FBP0ioR4iDB5A

I hope to God we win, and he and his family get banned for life. I’d hope there would be similar punishments if any of our club acted improperly.

[light up the darkness]

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Looks like an Al Capone manoeuvre.

If you can’t get him because there’s not enough evidence then HMRC will go after him for not keeping proper records for tax purposes.

It will be his choice. It’s either Cardiff City or HMRC or HMRC might be waiting to see what is produced in his defence and going after him regardless.

[the other bob wilson]

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This rat is still involved in football:

https://x.com/sportspeteo/status/1735735497421443314?s=46&t=YiFU3ZV43FBP0ioR4iDB5A

I hope to God we win, and he and his family get banned for life. I’d hope there would be similar punishments if any of our club acted improperly.

How does someone like that get FIFA approval? Hang on, I’ve just realised that’s a daft question.

[Jordi Culé]

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I would hope that none of our previous managers had anything to gain by allowing McKay's involvement.....Ahem....Cough.....

*laughing*

The whole thing will unravel quicker than the Tories currently eating themselves.

[pipster]

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If he was operating as self employed and domiciled in the UK then he is obliged to keep all records relating to UK commercial and taxation laws. These have to be kept for 5 years after the relevant tax assessment deadline. The relevant tax year would have been 2019/20 with a submission deadline of Jan 2021, so he cannot legally destroy any such records until Feb 2026.

He was based in Monaco I believe and guessing that he is not answerable to HMRC. He would be operating under Monaco law. Did he also transfer his assets into his wife and son's name ?

If this case is for data / docs then he may turn tables and supply what he has - but I doubt that will ever happen

[light up the darkness]

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He was based in Monaco I believe and guessing that he is not answerable to HMRC. He would be operating under Monaco law. Did he also transfer his assets into his wife and son's name ?

If this case is for data / docs then he may turn tables and supply what he has - but I doubt that will ever happen

I don’t recall the relevant agreements but if you’re registered for tax in Country X when asked to do so by your country of residence then you are required to prove that you paid your due taxes.

There no escape the tax authorities these days.

As an aside US citizens are required to declare any monies or investments held in any other country. Including Switzerland. And required to prove that you paid taxes on your income. The Swiss banks must also declare their client list to the IRS

[Ninian1962]

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He was based in Monaco I believe and guessing that he is not answerable to HMRC. He would be operating under Monaco law. Did he also transfer his assets into his wife and son's name ?

If this case is for data / docs then he may turn tables and supply what he has - but I doubt that will ever happen

He is a UK citizen and subject to HMRC rules. In the same way he was subject to UK law which is why he was made bankrupt in the UK ( for 5 years rather than the normal 1 due to his activities).

It is disgusting that FIFA have allowed him to become one of their Licenced Intermediaries (formerly called agents) so soon after getting his discharge but perhaps not entirely surprising (as Paul refers to earlier in this thread) based on the way FIFA and its senior people go about their business.

[TheBirchgrovePub]

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Why are the club now leaking information via the trust? All very strange