<p>Fifa called over Keegan deals
</p><p><p>Kevin Keegan’s business dealings at Manchester City are to come under scrutiny after the Danish football association asked Fifa to investigate his links with the Proactive Management sports agency.</p><p>Jim Stjerne Hansen, the general secretary of the Dansk Boldspil-Union, is writing to Fifa’s head of legal matters, Gianpaolo Monteneri, to point out a theoretical conflict of interests. </p><p>He is taking the matter to international football’s governing body after discovering that Keegan, who is understood to have at least until very recently held Proactive shares, could have unintentionally made a personal gain in buying players represented by the same company. </p><p>One of the cases that has come to the attention of the Danish authorities is City’s signing of Peter Schmeichel from Aston Villa last summer. Schmeichel, the former Manchester United goalkeeper, is represented by Paul Stretford, Proactive’s chief executive, meaning the company would have received a fee for negotiating the transfer and that, in turn, could have had knock-on benefits for shareholders such as Keegan. </p><p>The former authenitc canada goose outlet store in gta with discount price England coach has also signed two buy canada goose jacket usa more Danish players, Niclas Jensen and Mikkel Bischoff, who are clients of Proactive, and is believed to be interested in another, the Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen. Hansen is worried there could have been a conflict of interest berlin film festival ends canada goose jacket sponsorship amid because burlington coat factory canada goose coat Keegan’s shares might, in theory, have increased in value if Proactive benefited financially from the transfer of a client. </p><p>"I think this is something that Fifa should look into," said Hansen. can i wash my canada goose coat "Is it correct? If there is a conflict of interests Fifa, as the governing body, is the one organisation with the power to make can you wash a canada goose parka a decision. </p><p>"I would rather not take a personal stand against an individual manager but I fear there is a problem when managers and players are shareholders in the same company as the agent. </p><p>"Because of that, I want to ask Fifa if it is common practice buy canada goose jacket usa and, if not, whether something should be done about it. Fifa has to look at the principles and decide if there is something wrong." Keegan declined to comment. </p><p>According to a list of shareholders seen by the Guardian, Keegan held 200,000 shares in Proactive in January 2002. He is not the only manager with strong links to Stretford and Proactive. Blackburn’s Graeme Souness, for instance, had 400,000 can i wash my canada goose jacket shares when he bought Andy Cole for ?7.5m from Manchester United in December 2001, the largest single deal in the company’s financial year. </p><p>The Football Association’s investigations into John Gregory’s business dealings at Aston Villa have scrutinised his relationship with Proactive and the frequency with which he used Stretford to negotiate deals. </p><p>Under FA rules, there is not deemed to be a conflict of interest if a manager has a stake below 10%. The FA said it would, therefore, not be investigating Keegan. </p><p>However, the Danish authorities decided to act after Keegan’s dealings were brought to their attention by the Ekstra Bladet newspaper. Proactive has 80 offices worldwide and has had particular success in recruiting talented young Scandinavian players, with two former Denmark internationals, Jesper Olsen and Soren Lerby, anyone has got canada goose coat among the company’s executive directors. </p><p>Peter Ebbesen, the DBU official with responsibility for reg ulating players’ agents, said: "We have a concern with what is happening at the Proactive agency." </p><p>Although there is no suggestion that Keegan or anyone else has done anything illegal, or indeed deliberately targeted Proactive players in the transfer market for personal gain, the Danish complaint will be a huge embarrassment to his board of directors as they prepare for Sunday’s game against Southampton, their last ever match at buy canada goose jacket nyc Maine Road. </p><p>Neither Keegan nor his chairman John Wardle was willing to comment but Fifa confirmed it would look into the DBU’s concerns as a matter of course. "Until a case is opened by our legal department we would not want to make any official comment," said a Fifa spokesman. </p><p>In a statement, Proactive said: "The inference that managers would not act in the best interests of their clubs, just because they have a shareholding in Proactive, is offensive to those people concerned. </p><p>"The board of Proactive finds it surprising that the press should question the integrity of managers and players <a href="http://www.canadagoosecanadaoutlet.com/" rel="friend met co-worker neighbor">coat</a>, none of whom have a significant stake in the company. </p><p>"The group has more than 300 contracted clients, of which more than 60% are based outside the UK. A transfer is not the responsibility of any one person. It is invariably authorised by the board of the club, not the manager, and in most cases the negotiations are not part of the managers’ remit. Proactive operates under the highest standards and regulations assigned by the FA for the recruitment of players."</p>
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