그리핀 모기업 스틸에잇은 "이적료를 받은 적 없고 일부 사실과 다른 내용이 있다"고 해명했지만 논란은 사그라지지 않고 있다.
Steel Eight, the parent company of Griffin, explained, "I have never received a transfer fee and there is something different from some facts," but the controversy has not died down.