FA to probe Howard deal

The Football Association is to investigate goalkeeper Tim Howard’s £2.3m (€3.3m) move to Manchester United.

Documents which reportedly show evidence of a payment to an agent and breaches of FA rules have been passed to the governing body by The Sunday Times.

The FA’s compliance unit, which investigates football transfers, is to look at the deal which saw Howard arrive at Old Trafford from Metrostars last July.

David Davies, the FA’s executive director, said: “Various documents are now in our possession.

“They will be studied very carefully and any breach of the rules and regulations that they show will then be discussed as a matter of urgency.”