Seri's transfer to Fulham is being questioned by lawyer behind football's 'Bosman ruling.' GETTY IMAGES
The lawyer behind football's "landmark Bosman ruling" wrote to the FA to "demand an inquiry" into Jean-Michael Seri's transfer to EPL side Fulham from Ligue 1 club Nice, according to the London TELEGRAPH. The Ivorian midfielder joined the Premier League club with French left back Maxime Le Marchand for a combined fee of £25M this summer. According to French reports, the breakdown of that fee was approximately £15M for Le Marchand and £10M for Seri, "despite the latter being better, younger and having longer on his contract." Previously linked with Barcelona, Seri has already started legal proceedings in France against Nice, as he claims the club "undervalued him in order to avoid paying a bonus." Le Marchand's value, on the other hand, "was overstated." Nice denied this claim, but it emerged that Seri's former clubs in the Ivory Coast and Portugal believe they were "deprived of sell-on payments by the alleged manipulation of the combined fee." Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont, who revolutionized the transfer market in '95 when he won a case for Jean-Marc Bosman, is "representing the two clubs in the Ivory Coast," Centre Domoraud Cyrille and ASEC Mimosas. He wrote to FA Chief Investigations Officer David Matthews on Monday to ask the governing body to "investigate the allegations" (TELEGRAPH, 12/3).
