Barnsley have suspended assistant manager Tommy Wright over allegations that he accepted a £5,000 payment to place players from a Far East firm at Oakwell.
The 50-year-old Scotsman is one of the latest names to be embroiled in the 'football for sale' scandal revealed by the Telegraph which yesterday led Sam Allardyce to leave his role as England manager.
Wright has been caught on camera by undercover reporters and appears to have accepted £5,000 to persuade Reds players to hire the firm as their agents and to recommend players the firm represents as potential Barnsley signings. It is claimed that he had three meetings with two agents and the reporters posing as representatives of the firm.
Wright then met them again at Oakwell with Reds head coach Paul Heckingbottom and owner Patrick Cryne who raised major concerns about proposals to provide cash for Barnsley to sign players in return for a share of any future transfer fee. There have been no allegations of wrongdoing against Heckingbottom or Wright.
A club statement reads: "Barnsley FC is aware of allegations made by the Telegraph against Tommy Wright. The club has today suspended Tommy pending an internal investigation into these allegations."
