ENGLAND MANAGER SAM Allardyce allegedly offered a group of businessmen advice on how to “get around” player transfer rules, a newspaper investigation claims.
Allardyce met with undercover reporters, posing as businessmen from the Far East, and was secretly filmed as part of a Daily Telegraph investigation published on Monday evening.
He is alleged to have used his position to negotiate a £400,000 public speaking deal as well as discussing a way to circumvent rules prohibiting the third-party ownership of players.
The meeting took place in August, less than a month after he was appointed as England manager.
Neither Allardyce nor the FA had made any comment on Monday evening.
Third-party ownership was banned by the FA in 2008 before world governing body Fifa introduced an outright ban in 2015. The controversial practice allows companies to own a “stake” in a player and subsequently profit from big-money transfer deals.
