ALBERTO Comazzi was employed as a consultant by Swindon Town as part of the severance package he is now taking legal action to recoup.

The Advertiser has learnt that Comazzi, who is reportedly ready to take the club to court to claim back £143,200 in unpaid fees, was handed a position advising the Robins following his departure from the County Ground in January 2012.

The move is believed to have had tax incentives for both the player and the club and meant Town were scheduled to make several payments to Comazzi in a compromise agreement reached between the two parties following the termination of the defender’s contract.

Reports have suggested that Swindon allegedly agreed to make 12 monthly contributions of £11,750 each, while other one-off payments were also part of the deal.

However, Comazzi was not paid any of the monthly amounts after he was named in May 2012 as one of 61 individuals under investigation for match-fixing in his native Italy.

The centre-back was later found guilty of the offence and given a four-year competitive ban, whereupon Swindon did not want to be associated with a consultant convicted of match-fixing.

Therefore, the player was not paid in the pre-arranged instalments and Comazzi is now willing to sue the club to recover these funds.

The 34-year-old joined the Robins from Spezia Calcio in June 2011 but only played five times in the red of Town.

He was unable to adapt to life in the Football League, was sent off in his third appearance and only featured five times in total during his spell in Wiltshire.