Benjamin Mendy wins legal battle against Manchester City over unpaid wages

Mendy finally wins the battle after getting arrested over rape allegations.

While facing rape allegations, Benjamin Mendy won his lawsuit against Manchester City for a large number of his owed pay.

After a trial last year, Mendy was exonerated of raping a lady at his £4 million mansion and attempting to rape another woman. After Mendy’s second arrest in 2021, City suspended Benjamin Mendy’s £500,000 monthly salary.

Mendy, for whom City paid £49 million to AS Monaco in 2017, retaliated by suing the Premier League winners in an employment tribunal. He won the battle for the majority of his underpaid income after claiming that there had been “unauthorised deductions” made from his pay.

Before taxes, Mendy’s claim was for about £11 million. After spending almost five months in detention throughout the 22-month period covered by the claim, the tribunal’s decision means he will be able to receive a good portion of this amount but not all of it.

The precise sum will either be resolved at a future hearing if a compromise cannot be reached, or it will be agreed upon by the parties.

After Benjamin Mendy’s initial arrest in November 2020, the tribunal heard that City kept paying him, but they reversed their position when he was caught again the following year.

Mendy was charged, but City officials informed him that he was “not presently in a position to perform the terms of his contract,” so they would not be paying his salary.

According to Mendy, when he contacted then-chief operational officer Omar Berrada for an explanation, he was told he would get his salary after being found not guilty. However, the tribunal heard that Mendy never heard back from Berrada or chief executive Khaldoon Al Mubarak.

Sean Jones KC, who represented Manchester City, had earlier said: ‘The essence of the submission by Mr Mendy is that his contract creates a moral hazard.

‘He says “I can behave as irresponsibly as I like, I can ignore all the rules, both legal, of the club and common sense to the point where my behaviour results in prison”.

‘He is trying to make a moral hazard into a virtue. He says “It should in no way affect my entitlement to pay. There should be no consequences to my behaviour”.’

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