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
Richard Scudamore is a sales manager by profession. Nothing more.
Imagine that the English FA had never gone through with their disgraceful decision to allow the FAPL to exist as a separate entity and had instead kept control of the negotiation and distribution of TV rights.
They would have advertised for a Sales Director. Good wedge and bonus. Do you think Scudamore would have taken it? I think yes? Do you think the FA would have paid him anything like what he earned at the FAPL? No, they would have put more of the money back into the game.
Would Scudamore have been happy to earn a lot less? Say just 10% of what he earned in the last 22 years? Sure because it would still have been more than he would have earned at Yellow Pages.
Would he have got a £5m golden goodbye in this scenario? Of course not.
And our entire game from Stamford Bridge to Old Oak Common would be in much better health.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 ?
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Worth every penny. Why stop at £5m?
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
Richard Scudamore is a sales manager by profession. Nothing more.
Imagine that the English FA had never gone through with their disgraceful decision to allow the FAPL to exist as a separate entity and had instead kept control of the negotiation and distribution of TV rights.
They would have advertised for a Sales Director. Good wedge and bonus. Do you think Scudamore would have taken it? I think yes? Do you think the FA would have paid him anything like what he earned at the FAPL? No, they would have put more of the money back into the game.
Would Scudamore have been happy to earn a lot less? Say just 10% of what he earned in the last 22 years? Sure because it would still have been more than he would have earned at Yellow Pages.
Would he have got a £5m golden goodbye in this scenario? Of course not.
And our entire game from Stamford Bridge to Old Oak Common would be in much better health.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Scudamore will receive the payment over a three-year period "in recognition of his outstanding work".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46221020
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.
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
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
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 ?
Burnely
Palace
Huddersfield
Wolves
Leicester
Have all refused to pay, if true good on them
You cant beat the establishment, bend the knee and pay up.