Zurich: No written contract for the £1.35million payment made to Michel Platini by FIFA in 2011 for work carried out more than nine years beforehand has been provided to investigators probing the case, it has emerged.


Michel Platini

The payment, signed off by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, appears to have been paid solely on the basis of an oral agreement, sources with knowledge of the case have confirmed to PA Sport. Platini did submit an invoice to FIFA in February 2011 and was paid 2million Swiss francs.