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Richard Scudamore: Premier League clubs asked for £250,000 towards £5m bonus

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  • Morally bankrupt organisation pays morally bankrupt individual a huge bonus for doing his job - par for the course.

    Worth every penny. Why stop at £5m?
  • Morally bankrupt organisation pays morally bankrupt individual a huge bonus for doing his job - par for the course.

    Worth every penny. Why stop at £5m?

    Bang on the money, I am not sure what all the fuss is about. The league's UK television rights were valued at around £670m when he joined, the last deal was worth £5.14bn.
  • Dont know if he has the power yet I'd have a lot more respect for him if he'd sorted it better for those trying to watch on TV

    Seems abroad that you only need one subscription to watch the Premier League etc. yet here in England we need three of them just to watch the Premier League - thats something that needs to be sorted out, may have been out of his control and might need the Government to step in and make a law yet still think he should have made an effort in some form to make it more easier and affordable than it is the way it is now
  • Dont know if he has the power yet I'd have a lot more respect for him if he'd sorted it better for those trying to watch on TV

    Seems abroad that you only need one subscription to watch the Premier League etc. yet here in England we need three of them just to watch the Premier League - thats something that needs to be sorted out, may have been out of his control and might need the Government to step in and make a law yet still think he should have made an effort in some form to make it more easier and affordable than it is the way it is now

    Beacuse of the way the Premier League bundled up the fixtures into different packages (days and kick-off times for live matches, separate one for highlights) to extract the maximum amount of cash from broadcasters EU competition regulations meant that Sky couldn't have all the packages themselves.

    This is why there are now matches on both Sky and BT Sport (whereas in the early days of the PL it was just Sky) and in the current deal Amazon have a couple of rounds of fixtures.
  • Dont know if he has the power yet I'd have a lot more respect for him if he'd sorted it better for those trying to watch on TV

    Seems abroad that you only need one subscription to watch the Premier League etc. yet here in England we need three of them just to watch the Premier League - thats something that needs to be sorted out, may have been out of his control and might need the Government to step in and make a law yet still think he should have made an effort in some form to make it more easier and affordable than it is the way it is now

    Beacuse of the way the Premier League bundled up the fixtures into different packages (days and kick-off times for live matches, separate one for highlights) to extract the maximum amount of cash from broadcasters EU competition regulations meant that Sky couldn't have all the packages themselves.

    This is why there are now matches on both Sky and BT Sport (whereas in the early days of the PL it was just Sky) and in the current deal Amazon have a couple of rounds of fixtures.
    Thats fair enough and can understand the rules about stopping one Company from having the whole monolopy like what we've seen from SKY for a few years - What I dont think is fair from that is the fact that it makes the working man poorer

    Surely there should be a regulation which says we pay for one subscription which is divided between the viewing companies, rather than the £50 for SKY | £15 for BT | £10 for Amazon etc.
  • What if they just say NO!? Are they under contractual obligation to do it?
  • Bet he voted REMAIN :wink:
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  • LenGlover said:

    Bet he voted REMAIN :wink:

    Probably off to the new European league.
  • Never trust a man who has his trousers so bloody high!!

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  • Probably think it'll stand them in good stead when the Premier League eventually scraps promotion and relegation.

    The PL is a virus that is slowly killing our game. Sky are the one's responsible for making the virus airborne. Scudamore is part of this so he can fuck right off.
  • Morally bankrupt organisation pays morally bankrupt individual a huge bonus for doing his job - par for the course.

    Worth every penny. Why stop at £5m?

    Bang on the money, I am not sure what all the fuss is about. The league's UK television rights were valued at around £670m when he joined, the last deal was worth £5.14bn.
    If they thought he was worth more money they should have paid him it. Asking the clubs to fork out for leaving bonus is royally taking the piss. Pigs in the trough.
  • How long before he's announced in another multi-million pound job with all the perks? Probably a signing on bonus too.
  • There's talk that he's going to be given a CBE too - that's bad enough but at least it's not a knighthood!

    Scudamore's mate, Bruce Buck, who in goes shooting with is behind the bonus. As Chelsea Chairman he has a certain amount of influence but the clubs that are knocking him back are the lesser ones because Scudamore was responsible for the new founder member's agreement that means the top clubs get a greater share of the overseas TV revenue.

    So, in a nutshell, bloke tries to get other blokes to contribute to a whip round for his mate after his mate shafted them!
  • Outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore will receive a £5m farewell bonus paid by clubs, the Premier League has confirmed.

    Scudamore will receive the payment over a three-year period "in recognition of his outstanding work".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46221020
  • Will also continue to rake it in as part of his ongoing advisory role no doubt
  • You have to question Scudamores management skills if his contract didn’t include:

    A performance bonus based on gross revenues and a defined termination package.

    A whip round for the departing chief executive is a bit embarrassing for a supposedly professional organization.
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  • Well at least HMRC will be £2.25m better off.
  • edited November 2018
    Read yesterday that he had already earned over £28 million in his time at the PL, if this is correct you would think he might have salted away a few quid to cover his old age, if he hasnt, and thats a lot of money to piss up a wall, then whats he doing in charge of PL. The clubs should tell him to go boil his head and donate the money to charity, or reduce their season ticket price.
  • I just don’t see anything wrong in what’s happened

    A business that has grown hugely over the last 20 years and those that have benefited the most chipped in and paid him a goodbye handshake

    So what

    All clubs thatvhave reached the premier have made shit loads of cash

    How they either wasted and squandered the money or managed to use it to grow and grow bringing in investors etc is down to the clubs

    I find him a bit meh to be honest I don’t pay any attention to him or the prem league so this doesn’t bother me at all
  • Why does a man who's been earning £2.5million a year (presumably with some bonus provisions) need a farewell gift of another £5million ?

    He nearly lost his job four years ago over sexist emails - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/16/richard-scudamore-premier-league-sexist-emails-untenable
  • Blucher said:

    Why does a man who's been earning £2.5million a year (presumably with some bonus provisions) need a farewell gift of another £5million ?

    He nearly lost his job four years ago over sexist emails - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/16/richard-scudamore-premier-league-sexist-emails-untenable

    I see that the solicitor was fined £15,000 by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority and ordered to pay £12,000 costs for sending "despicable emails" over an 18 month period, whilst Scudamore was cleared of any wrongdoing by a Premier League review - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1283431/sexist-emails-exchanged-between-premier-league-boss-richard-scudamore-and-fined-lawyer/

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/premier-league-lawyer-fined-for-despicable-email-exchange-with-r/

    Without being unduly sanctimonious about this, the emails in question and the outcome of the review (whilst totally unsurprising) hardly reflect well on Scudamore or the Premier League, do they ?
  • Charlton Life should at least send him a farewell card!
  • Not sure how true it is but read on twitter

    Burnely
    Palace
    Huddersfield
    Wolves
    Leicester

    Have all refused to pay, if true good on them

    If true they will all have dodgy penalties awarded against them over the weekend and have players sent off.

    You cant beat the establishment, bend the knee and pay up.
  • Surprised Newcastle aren't on that list, can't believe Ashley would happily give away 250k if he doesn't have to.
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