Benjamin Mendy: Last News

Ex-Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy is chasing millions of pounds of back pay from his old club and is selling his home for £5m in a bid to avoid bankruptcy, the High Court has heard.

Manchester City endured a worrying weekend off the pitch after the news of Everton's Premier League punishment was revealed.

Benjamin Mendy is taking former club Manchester City to an employment tribunal under claims of unpaid wages.

Former Manchester City left-back Benjamin Mendy is suing his former employers for taking "unauthorised deductions" from his wage while his rape and sexual assault case was ongoing in 2021.

Benjamin Mendy and his friend Louis Saha Matturie exchanged ‘misogynistic’ messages which exposed their alleged attitudes towards women, it can be revealed. But the judge in their trial resisted moves to show them to jurors deliberating on their cases, even though he said they showed the pair had ‘lost their moral compass’.

Mobile phone messages about young women sent between ex-Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy and his "fixer" spoke of women as "bitches", it can be revealed for the first time.

Prosecutors will not seek a second re-trial after jurors were unable to agree whether Louis Saha Matturie sexually assaulted a woman. Louis Matturie, 42, a friend of former Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy, had been found not guilty of other sexual offences including rape, after he was accused by a number of different women.

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Former Manchester United players Paul Pogba and Memphis Depay have responded to Benjamin Mendy being cleared of all charges against him after being found not guilty of rape and attempted rape.

Footballer Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of all charges after being found not guilty of rape and attempted rape. The World Cup winner wept in the dock as he was unanimously acquitted, after jurors deliberated for about three hours and 15 minutes after a two week trial at Chester Crown Court.

Jurors have retired to deliberate their verdicts in Benjamin Mendy's rape trial. The French footballer, 28, is accused of raping one woman in October 2020, and of attempting to rape a second woman two years earlier.

Prosecutors claimed that Benjamin Mendy 'does not take no for an answer' as they made their closing speech to jurors.

A woman who has accused Benjamin Mendy of rape 'looked like a ghost' after the alleged attack, a jury heard.

Benjamin Mendy's accuser 'talked herself into believing' that she'd been raped by the footballer, his trial heard. But the woman maintained that Mr Mendy had raped her at his Cheshire mansion, under questioning at his crown court trial.

Benjamin Mendy had a 'predatory look on his face' before he allegedly tried to rape a woman at his Cheshire mansion, his accuser claimed. The woman, who has alleged that Mr Mendy attempted to rape her at his home in October 2018, gave evidence in a police interview played at Mr Mendy's re-trial.

Benjamin Mendy will be released by Manchester City at the end of his contract, later this month, as he awaits his retrial on one charge of alleged rape and another of attempted rape.

Manchester City have released four players at the end of the 2022/23 season including club captain Ilkay Gundogan.

Pep Guardiola indicated Manchester City will be looking for a different type of player in the summer transfer window.

Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of five rape charges, one count of attempted rape and a separate accusation of sexual assault. However, Manchester City star faces a retrial in June after the jury failed to reach verdicts on two counts, one of rape and the other, attempted rape.

Mendy is accused of raping and sexually assaulting a total of six different women on five different occasions at his home in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, between October 2018 and August last year.Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.Mr Guardiola told jurors at Chester Crown Court this afternoon he noticed Mendy when he was playing for Monaco and beat Manchester City in a match.He said: “We were really impressed as a club, he had the potential to play with us.“I think he’s a generous boy and very quickly adapted to the team. I would say he was happy when he could help the other [players].

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy was constantly late for training because he overslept, a court heard today.The 28-year-old defender was also said to have had "questionable professionalism" during his time at the club, which he signed for in 2017. The French International is on trial accused of raping and sexually assaulting a total of six different women on five different occasions at his home in Mottram St Andrew between October 2018 and August last year.Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.Chester Crown Court previously heard Mendy went clubbing “two or three times a week” and regularly invited people back to his mansion for after parties. Giving evidence today, Marc Boixasa, former head of first team operations at the Premier League side, said Mendy was “the nicest person he had met in football” but admitted he was “not the perfect professional.”Jurors heard Mendy became injured during his first season with the club and was sent to Barcelona for treatment. Mr Boixasa said: “When he came back from Barcelona, sometimes the medical team reported he was late for treatment. “The attitude was always the same in the sense that he was not like the perfect professional in the sense he was arriving late many times in the morning because he overslept. And that was constant during his stay with the team.“On one side he was really liked by everyone on the team.