Manchester City stopped paying Benjamin Mendy’s wages — more than £100,000 a week — last year after the defender was charged with a string of sex offences.
The French World Cup winner told Chester Crown Court yesterday that the champions withdrew his salary in September 2021.
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault against six women. The 28-year-old told the court he had re-evaluated his life decisions during four months on remand.
Prosecutor Timothy Cray KC showed CCTV footage from outside Mendy’s Cheshire mansion after the player had been at Manchester’s Chinawhite nightclub. Mendy is accused of rape at his home that evening. Cray said to Mendy he could ‘make a mistake’ about consent after drinking and the defendant replied: ‘No, what I saw and felt was consensual. I had sex with some women I didn’t know.’
Cray told Mendy he was lying to ‘save himself’ and he replied: ‘No.’ The trial continues.
Nohate
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With all these beautiful girls in Africa you went for smelly dirty ass white girls. The day African players will emulate Mane the better for them. He set the standards so high and Africa is proud of him
TheO2man
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It's hard these days to make a commitment to a woman such as, you look beautiful, you look gorgeous, you look this and that. Be careful otherwise you find yourself in court, accused of sexual harassment.
Puwbeknpsu
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With all these beautiful girls in Africa you went for smelly dirty ass white girls. The day African players will emulate Mane the better for them. He set the standards so high and Africa is proud of him
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don't make these racial comments again nonsense, his life choices is non of your business, you can't tell him what to do
Victorspurs
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This man has jeopardized his career because of lust
Elramani
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With all these beautiful girls in Africa you went for smelly dirty ass white girls. The day African players will emulate Mane the better for them. He set the standards so high and Africa is proud of him
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This is the reason why they call Africans monkey, you are a typical example of how primitive and equal in intellectual capacity a human can be with monkeys!