Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore has called those involved with the 2006 transfer of Carlos Tevez to West Ham “liars.”
The issue surrounds the third-party Premier League rules that were broken in order to bring Tevez and his Argentina teammate Javier Mascherno to Upton Park.
Scudamore today told Bloomberg: “it is the number one act of bad faith that anyone ever did towards me here.
“If a club chooses, through its executives, to lie to you to your face, there is a good deal of damage that can flow from that.”
Tevez arrived in London in summer 2006 and strict third-party laws were subsequently brought in from 2008, after the club were fined £6.6m and ordered to pay compensation to Sheffield United who considered themselves hard done by. The whole saga is long gone, with the final instalment of compensation payments being paid to the Blades next month, so it’s unclear why Scudamore has brought this up now.
West Ham have released a statement since these comments to ensure fans that the current ownership is not coming under attack by the Premier League executives., stating that “Richard Scudamore’s comments refer to the actions of former Directors of the club during investigations into third-party ownership in 2007, and have no link to current board members David Gold, David Sullivan or Karren Brady, who only joined the club in January 2010.”
By Lucy Woolford
@lucy_whufc
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