West Ham. The club being investigated for breaking tax rules and a favourable deal well under market value for their government owned stadium which incidentally should've been investigated, is it under EU law or UEFA rules, because of unfair advantage, although that might mean the same for Real Madrid and they can't have that.

Ashley and his immoral running of Sports Direct too.

COYP

I'd be more concerned if I was on the board tbh. Sam has probably never signed a player's contract.

COYP

I do hope that smug b1tch Karen Brady is found to be to blame, and ends up licking out the top dog in Holloway in a few months time.

I've heard police have been at Chelsea too.

If it's related to transfers with French club Mandana, Cabaye, and Souare were all signed from France.

Possibly the French based agency Mondial, they have mainly French players on their books, many have been picked up for cheap and sold on at a large profit, Cabaye is one of them. Interestingly Payet and Bilic are also on the agency's books.

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The BBC's take on all this.

Neither Pardew nor Big Sam had control of transfer dealings while at the Toon. I know the Murphy's Law applies to Palace but I think it is the crazy set up Ashley had in place until Rafa demanded control. I'd be more concerned if the Jordan Brothers were running things (especially Dominc) but Parish seems a much more straightforward businessman than Ashley, Gold or Abramovich. To be fair, Simon Jordan complained mightily about payments to agents, especially during the abortive transfer of Tim Cahill from Millwall.

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