Benjamin Mendy’s Man City bonuses revealed with former player earning millions on top of wages
BENJAMIN MENDY’S Manchester City bonuses have been revealed with their former player earning millions on top of his salary.
Mendy launched a legal claim against the champions over £11million in unpaid wages yesterday.
The Frenchman was earning £500,000 a month at City following a £52million move from Monaco in 2017.
But the club stopped paying his salary in August 2021 after Mendy was charged with rape and sexual assault.
The World Cup winner, who is now at French club Lorient, was eventually found not guilty on all counts following two trials in 2023.
And Mendy has now brought forward a claim to an employment tribunal for “unauthorised deductions” from his wages.
But further details of his contract have now emerged in submitted paperwork.
As well as his £500,000 a month salary, Mendy, who has made claims about his former Man City team-mates and his sex parties at a tribunal, also received a large number of bonuses.
Every time Manchester City qualified for the Champions League, the defender got £1million.
And Mendy was also due £900k if he played in over 60 per cent of City’s game.
Meanwhile, his image rights company received an annual payment of £1.2m from the champs.
And on top of that, City were also paying a monthly pension contribution which stopped following Mendy’s charges.
A letter was sent to him by the club at the time, which read: “The club has, after careful and anxious consideration, suspended the payment of salary to you.
“You will not receive the payment that would otherwise have fallen due at the end of September 2021.
“Nor will you receive any further payment until you are ready and able to perform your obligations under the contract of employment.
“You are not presently ready and able to perform duties, of course, because you have been remanded in custody and, separately, because The FA has suspended you from engaging in any football-related activity.
“Our understanding is that District Judge Garva remanded you in custody because of your conduct whilst already on bail.
“Remand, was, therefore, an avoidable impediment to your being able to perform your duties. We understand that a subsequent request to be released on bail was refused.
“In those circumstances, the club is no longer obliged to continue to pay you.”
Mendy claims under the terms of his contract, the club only had the right to stop his wages for a maximum of six weeks.
City deny breaching employment law and argue Mendy violated his own contract by bringing the club into disrepute and indulging in behaviour which prevented him from playing or training.
The club initially continued paying Mendy following his first arrest in November 2020.