Michel Platini cash part of ‘gentleman’s agreement’

Sepp Blatter has claimed a £1.35m (€2m) payment to Michel Platini which has seen the pair provisionally suspended by Fifa’s ethics committee was part of a “gentleman’s agreement” between the two of them.

The lack of a written contract for the payment has led the Football Association to suspend its support for Platini’s candidacy for the Fifa presidency.

The money was paid to Uefa president Platini in 2011, more than nine years after he had finished working for Blatter.