Darren Quigley, one of the players at the centre of the dispute over contracts between Derry City and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), has denied he is a ‘whistleblower’. Quigley, who is currently on loan with Sporting Fingal, told RTÉ News he went to the FAI after failing to be paid by Derry City. However, the goalkeeper says he had no knowledge that any players were on dual contracts at that time.
He said: ‘I find it very hard being branded a whistleblower because there are 20 other players up there who I haven’t spoken to. They could assume I am after opening a can of worms purposely.’
He added: ‘I wish to state that this is not the case whatsoever.’
Outlining the sequence of events, Quigley said he contacted the FAI about money owed to him by Derry City. It then emerged that there were differences between Quigley’s contract and the FAI’s records.
Quigley said as far as he knew, players were not aware of the ‘dual contract’ system and that to his knowledge he only ever had one agreement with Derry City.
Derry have been expelled from the League of Ireland following revelations from the FAI about irregularities in player contracts.
FAI Chief Executive John Delaney told RTÉ News yesterday that Derry City had withheld information about payments to players from the organisation over a period of years.
The Derry City players met this morning and a delegation have travelled to Dublin this evening to meet FAI officials.
Earlier today, Delaney told Morning Ireland that players who did not come forward and tell the FAI what they knew about the ‘two-contract’ system would be prevented by the FAI from playing football in any jurisdiction. He said that players had until 12 o’clock on Thursday to come forward.
Delaney also invited those involved in running Derry City to ‘come clean’ about what had happened.
Darren Quigley, one of the players at the centre of the dispute over contracts between Derry City and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), has denied he is a ‘whistleblower’.
Quigley, who is currently on loan with Sporting Fingal, told RTÉ News he went to the FAI after failing to be paid by Derry City. However, the goalkeeper says he had no knowledge that any players were on dual contracts at that time.
He said: ‘I find it very hard being branded a whistleblower because there are 20 other players up there who I haven’t spoken to. They could assume I am after opening a can of worms purposely.’
He added: ‘I wish to state that this is not the case whatsoever.’
Outlining the sequence of events, Quigley said he contacted the FAI about money owed to him by Derry City. It then emerged that there were differences between Quigley’s contract and the FAI’s records.
Quigley said as far as he knew, players were not aware of the ‘dual contract’ system and that to his knowledge he only ever had one agreement with Derry City.
Derry have been expelled from the League of Ireland following revelations from the FAI about irregularities in player contracts.
FAI Chief Executive John Delaney told RTÉ News yesterday that Derry City had withheld information about payments to players from the organisation over a period of years.
The Derry City players met this morning and a delegation have travelled to Dublin this evening to meet FAI officials.
Earlier today, Delaney told Morning Ireland that players who did not come forward and tell the FAI what they knew about the ‘two-contract’ system would be prevented by the FAI from playing football in any jurisdiction. He said that players had until 12 o’clock on Thursday to come forward.
Delaney also invited those involved in running Derry City to ‘come clean’ about what had happened.
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