Working with Mogi Bayat and the state of the debts at watfordfc were hot topics at the fans’ forum
SD: “Let me just give some reality. We were relegated. We had to generate cashflow and finances in order to be sustainable. So we were able to sell, and Kamara wanted to play at the highest level. We were able to sell Kamara that enabled a good transfer fee so we could have the revenues for this club to continue and to compete.
“And it has no consequence because of the other trading we’ve done and the other commercial revenue we’ve achieved, whatever value they wish to put on Kamara I’m sure they would agree he’s a top player. It’ll have no impact on our FFP submission. There was zero consequence to the Kamara deal. Zero.” “But it was a time where the media wanted to find a problem where there wasn’t a problem. But there’s been no investigation, there’s been no charge, there’s been nothing. Simple.
“We have more interest in the player than the agent. The agent will make a deal happen based on his strengths, his interests and his ability to influence a player. Mr Mogi is just one of the agents that we use. He has been developing his ability in France and Belgium. He has not been suspended in his ability to work, so I don’t want to get involved in his personal situation. Until someone is proved guilty, I understand….”GP: “That’s right.
“Because we have relationships with certain agents we will be offered certain players. And that’s the way you will see it working. And again our evaluation, other than with the player, if the player is good enough we don’t care who the agent is. We just try to get the player at the best possible conditions. We expect the agent to help us in that. That is where he can help.
“It’s the same with many, many agents. I wanted the technical department to sign the winger that went to Everton for a million, forget his name, brilliant player . . . Demarai Gray. Everton got Demarai Gray for a million because they had the unique relationship with the agent. It was impossible to get that deal and it’s why he went to Everton.
SD: “The Kamara thing is a really good point. There are certain things that we can’t discuss and we were genuinely trying to be open and explain, and that openness and explanation has caused the problem. Certain journalists said ‘ooh, he’s gone to Udinese, are the EFL going to investigate that?’ “And we need to win some games. Win games and life becomes a lot more pleasant, and people are more prepared to listen. In the 11 years we’ve been here, this is not where we want to be. We want to be back, being successful, playing entertaining football, and we want to be open and we want to communicate.
GP: “Again I think we got the facts wrong. When Mr Bayat arrived in the UK he used the same company of accountant that we were using as a common service. That is really the only connection. We introduced him because he arrived in the country, we introduced him to our accountant and he started working with them. That was the only connection. We never had any participation or any connection with any property with Mr Mogi, or any company.
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