Should AFCB give Richard Scudamore £250,000?

billythekid said:
Hope she hasn’t upset them too much. :grinning:


As president of Discovery's UK networks, she was last year at the centre of an unprecedented disagreement with Sky, attacking the broadcaster for failing to pay a "fair price" to carry its channels. Sky, on the other hand, thinks Discovery's price demands are "completely unrealistic."

In January, she launched a fierce attack on the broadcaster: "We believe Sky is using what we consider to be its dominant market position to further its own commercial interest over those of viewers and independent broadcasters. The vitality of independent broadcasters like Discovery and plurality in TV is under threat."

Dinnage, now global president at Discovery's Animal Planet, has spent more than 20 years working in the television industry. Since joining Discovery in 2009, she served as general manager of the UK and Benelux businesses, and most recently as President of UK/Ireland and Chief Content Officer for Discovery Networks International.

A former colleague told Telegraph Sport: “Susanna is a smart and talented brand-builder, and very much a left-field, ‘out there’ appointment - and a woman too in what has been with only a few exceptions a male dominated world, which can only be applauded.”

As boss of Discovery's UK arm, she said pay TV needed to be about more than football.

Threatening to pull the network's channels from Sky in a row over fees, she said: “Discovery is prepared to take that stand. Pay-television needs to be about more than just films and football. The consumer can’t be expected to fund all of Sky’s investments and get less and less choice in return.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...place-richard-scudamore-premier-league-chief/
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She'll be after £10m when she goes!
 
You'd like to think he'd turn it down even if offered it!
 
I'd love to think it but my last employer gave me 5k to bugger off, I didn;t say no, but I've got bills
 
To be fair, I built a random word generator, and used it to send emails long after bill(mcgarrycherry) had left, but given his output on here, you can see why folk were fooled and kept paying him/me

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Loadsamoney...Dob it out....Round the board...Pass Go...Collect another 200,000....invest in yer cousins horse stables innit...and the masses cheered..Bravo! They earn it do them! Increase the Revenue ..them do ..aye oop ..they are great them are...we wouldn't av what we've got without them ... No top six...No International breaks..Naw Noofin.....Glimmer glimmer.....Glimmer of hope that Man City can rag the pants off Real and Barca that famous duo wiv even more money!
Hanga Friggin bout...the PL has made ' tother Mancs the Richest Club. So much money flying about...Scuddy done it e did...and afore we can shake a stick ..yer Accie Stanley are gonna strike out AC Milan. Money! Loadsa Money! The Big Rich Premier League of England! Sorry Celtic...your on the poor side of the border!
 
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Today will soon be Yesterday and then Thursday becomes Tommorrow...getting us closer to the Arsenal game...I'm fed up waiting....today hasn't pleased me at all. Bill Bailey was good though on the Charlie Birthday show! People called Bill usually get it right...wish it was my real name!
I tried to infiltrate the Ugly Inside earlier but was blocked out...I had a few things to say, mainly wind ups and I wanted to cheer them up too...they are so down!
 
250k is nothing. He runs one of the biggest organisations and biggest tax earners for the government. He's taken broadcasting rights from about £1bn per season to what is likely to be 6bn next season (natural inflation would put that at 1.57bn).

His salary is absolutely dwarfed by bankers who essentially just steal money from other people by manipulating markets. Why is there always such outrage at salaries in sports? I don't get it.
 
Silent AFCB said:
250k is nothing. He runs one of the biggest organisations and biggest tax earners for the government. He's taken broadcasting rights from about £1bn per season to what is likely to be 6bn next season (natural inflation would put that at 1.57bn).

His salary is absolutely dwarfed by bankers who essentially just steal money from other people by manipulating markets. Why is there always such outrage at salaries in sports? I don't get it.
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I don't object to high salaries where the underlying financials justify them at all, but I do object to this for two reasons.

Firstly it isn't actually a salary or a contractual bonus. It is an enormous ex gratia payment. Whilst of course the PL clubs will want to show their appreciation of what Scudamore has achieved for them I think it is disproportionate for a "voluntary" payment. The PL should have known Scudamore's long term plans for succession planning and could have factored this into his bonus structure.

Second it is such an obvious PR gaffe after the Wembley/grass roots debate that it must embody an arrogant belief that what the public think does not, and should not, matter.
 
Sorry Roger said:
I don't object to high salaries where the underlying financials justify them at all, but I do object to this for two reasons.

Firstly it isn't actually a salary or a contractual bonus. It is an enormous ex gratia payment. Whilst of course the PL clubs will want to show their appreciation of what Scudamore has achieved for them I think it is disproportionate for a "voluntary" payment. The PL should have known Scudamore's long term plans for succession planning and could have factored this into his bonus structure.

Second it is such an obvious PR gaffe after the Wembley/grass roots debate that it must embody an arrogant belief that what the public think does not, and should not, matter.
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I'm amazed they thought this a good idea to make public. It's a PR disaster.
 
My missus knows Zero about football so she often asks the question... " why do footballers and people who run it get paid so much?
I find it easy to provide answers to everything she challenges me on but all I can give back on this is Silence. She laughs and shakes her head every time...
She gets quite twitchy when I pay £5 to watch the local club... she knows it's only £4.00 to go in .so she queries the need to buy a programme " You watch them kicking a ball about....but you read about it while your watching it.....must be boring then? "
If she finds out I've bought the pie ..it's " didn't you like the Bacon sandwich I made at lunchtime ? "
It certainly makes me reflect... although I have no answers!
 
Away from Brexit...

Premier League clubs are meeting today to discuss the outgoing CEOs "golden handshake", which could potentially be worth £5m according to reports. We sent the following statement to journalists this morning.

The Football Supporters' Federation:

"Premier League clubs have always told fan groups that budgets are planned in advance and there's not a surplus of cash lying around from their extremely lucrative TV deal.

"In the meantime loyal football supporters continue to be inconvenienced by fixture changes to fit TV schedules, often losing out on travel costs or struggling to get to and from games in the first place.

“Now it appears clubs can stick their hands down the back of the sofa and find £250,000 at a moment's notice.

“Fans strongly oppose the ‘golden handshake’ and we urge clubs not to make a decision which is hugely unpopular with supporters."
 
"Outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore will receive a £5m farewell bonus paid by clubs, the Premier League has confirmed"
 
Now we know why the new training ground isn't going ahead ;-)

I guess this is what's meant by the 'trickle up' factor beloved of the Tories. You do me and I'll do you.

I'm sure AFCB could have found something better to do with this money than give it to an already rich bloke. Bloody awful.
 
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