Platini admits no written contract for FIFA payment

Michel Platini, president of European football body UEFA and suspended amid a huge corruption scandal rocking the game, admitted Monday there was no written contract for remuneration he received from world body FIFA.

FIFA's suspended president Sepp Blatter said last week that a $2.0 million dollar payment made to Platini in 2011 was "a gentleman's agreement."

Platini told French daily Le Monde the deal was made "man to man" but that he understood that under Swiss law "an oral contract is worth a written contract".

In a lengthy interview, former France and Juventus star Platini, who also had a spell as France coach, indicated he felt Blatter was seeking to "kill me politically" over the payment which looks to have doomed any chance of his succeeding the Swiss as FIFA chief.

Platini had been seen as favorite to take over in February until he was named in a Swiss criminal investigation into Blatter's management of FIFA.

Blatter, who has headed FIFA since 1998, last Friday indicated that the payment was a "gentleman's agreement" between the two.