Reports have suggested Cole and his representatives have angered Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich with their hard-line stance over wages during contract negotiations.
Former Burnley captain Brass, along with all the players still under contract at Bootham Crescent, is still continuing to defer his wages - a gesture which helped save the club from liquidation.
Kumar's allegation is only one among a plethora of reasons, such as low wages and overuse of contract labor threatening to undermine this burgeoning garments-to cars hub that has been an integral part of India's industrial growth and globalization story ever since Maruti Udyog set shop here to produce the iconic Maruti 800 in the 1980s.