The former agent of defender Mamadou Mbaye, Hervé Cros, has claimed the player told him “he was at Watford” when he represented him.
The centre back has been making headlines this week after FIFA banned both him and Cádiz over his move to the Spanish club.
The 21-year-old left Watford in the summer without the Hornets permission, leading the Premier League club to raise the issue with FIFA after failing to secure compensation from Cádiz.
FIFA ruled in their favour, banning Cádiz from signing players for two transfer windows as well as prohibiting Mbaye from playing for four months and ordering him to pay compensation to Watford.
Both Cádiz and Mbaye have refuted the claims, with the player even claiming that any documents linking him to Nigel Pearson’s side are false.
The case is set to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but if Cros is to be believed, then Watford will be victorious again.
Speaking to La Voz de Cádiz, he claims that Mbaye told him “he was at Watford” when he signed as his agent and that they were moving him to French side Troyes, something that was “formalised it in the French Federation.”
Indeed, he claims that the ‘transfer pass’ for that move remains “registered in the French Federation”, again suggesting that he was officially a Watford player at some point.
And what about Mbaye’s comments this week? Nonsense, according to Cros, who says that “they have told him to say those silly things because he didn’t say that to me.”
