A top Premiership agent has spoken for the first time on speculation that the fraud police raid on Birmingham City was over the transfer of Aliou Cisse to Portsmouth.
But agent Willie McKay denied he had done anything wrong in the £300,000 deal that took the 31-year-old Senegalese star to Pompey four years ago.
Blues bosses have stressed that the raid was not connected to anyone at the club, that no one at the club had been arrested or questioned, and promised to give their full support to the police investigation.
Mr McKay said he believed the Cisse deal was a factor in Wednesday's raid but insisted he was innocent.
He said: "Do you think Birmingham City would deal with me if they thought I had done anything wrong?
"Nobody at Birmingham is concerned at what is happening. To describe what happened as a raid is, I think, over the top."
Mr McKay recalled the support Cisse was offered by Blues and the club's supporters when he lost several relatives in the Joola ferry disaster off the coast of Gambia in 2002. He said he had just wanted to help the player in his time of need.
"I think you might find Cisse had problems. That was one of the main reasons he moved, to help his family.
"I try to help all my players if they ask me. I was working hard doing a lot of business."
