Mayor of Liverpool asks FA and police to investigate Ross Barkley’s Chelsea move

• Everton supporter Joe Anderson also writes to Richard Scudamore
• Anderson: ‘I am asking police to consider if any fraud has taken place’

The mayor of Liverpool has asked police to investigate whether Ross Barkley’s cut-price transfer from Everton to Chelsea constitutes fraud.

Barkley joined the Premier League champions last week for £15m having rejected a £35m move to Stamford Bridge on transfer deadline day in August. The move so incensed Joe Anderson, Liverpool’s elected mayor and a lifelong Evertonian, that he posted a series of tweets on the day criticising Barkley and the player’s agent, Paul Martin, while calling on the Football Association and Premier League to investigate the deal.

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