Premier League clubs asked to cough up £250,000 each for departing Richard Scudamore

[Fulwellmackem]

How did you even think he was dead?

Basically if someone died we have half a days wages to the family to get them back on their feet and a day on the drink.....

Someone made it up apparently but when he turned back up and wasn’t deed it was brilliant!

 

[Sheep farmer]

The premier league, under no obligation to do so, gives £100m a year to grass roots.
He's the CEO of a multi billion pound organisation, getting well paid goes with the territory.
It just smacks of bitterness and jealousy when people are annoyed he might be given a nice golden handshake when it doesn't affect them at all

OK, I’m bitter and jealous, doesn’t make me wrong or this whip round right

 

[Plank]

Like everything in life if it doesn't directly impact my life I couldn't give a f***

 

[GlasgowMackem88]

Looking on the bright side it's a cost we don't need to pay

 

[Buchans Boots]

Cheeky bastards.

 

[kingmonkey]

How does it affect you?

It's more money, leaving the game.

Anyone involved in grassroots football will be rightly pissed off with this.

 

[Bear]

Fuck me I get annoyed when I have to hand a fiver over when one of our bosses leave.

 

[BNM]

just see this on the dailymail website

Premier League clubs stunned by request to raise £5m for outgoing chairman Richard Scudamore | Daily Mail Online


if its true top end football is becoming a piss take

It has been for a long time

 

[Deleted member 27423]

A tiny sliver of the total. Football has been stolen from the very fans who made it what it is. Now we watch foreign managers coaching teams full of foreign players, who dream of playing in a non-domestic super league.

Well said marra

 

[BNM]

My first reaction was disgrace. But he has done an absolutely phenomenal job for premier league clubs during this time by way of the tv deals and subsequent increase in revenue. When put into context of the persimmons boss and his 75m bonus it isn’t extreme. And all 20 clubs seem up for it.

But with an average yearly salary of £2.5m a year does he really need it? Of course not. Would be much better off going into grass roots or helping ex players or youngsters who don’t make it get on in life or something

As the cat is now out of the bag (good!), he will be shown to be (more of) a twat if he takes it; therefore having no option other than to donate it to some worthy cause.
Some good may come of it after all?

 

[TartanMackem]

I don't think it will happen. It's catching a fair bit of bad press today, and it seems that not all the clubs are particularly happy about the idea.

 

[Turnip from the Tip]

I don't think it will happen. It's catching a fair bit of bad press today, and it seems that not all the clubs are particularly happy about the idea.

I can’t inagine you’d be over the moon if you were wolves or Cardiff like. It’s just a really crass idea. I bet Brice Buck can’t imagine what the fuss is about which tells its own story. Also highlights the fact that supporters’ hard earned season ticket money amounts to little more than petty cash for premier league clubs in 2018

 

[Ghandi Floss]

It’s disgusting, yet not surprising in the obscene world of The Premier League.

 

[Discopants91]

Considering it generates 5.3 billion pounds a year, that is hardly generous.

£5m is less than fuck all then with that logic.

 

[MrBraithwaite]

£5m is less than fuck all then with that logic.

True- the payment I don’t mind, it is the lack of funds going to grassroots around the UK that annoys me. That and the foreign takeover of the league in terms of players and coaches.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

The five clubs who refused to pay up £250k for the Scudamore bonus are Huddersfield, Wolves, Leicester, Burnley and Crystal Palace #Scudamore

 

[gazc24]

The five clubs who refused to pay up £250k for the Scudamore bonus are Huddersfield, Wolves, Leicester, Burnley and Crystal Palace #Scudamore

Well done them

 

[Billy Batts]

The five clubs who refused to pay up £250k for the Scudamore bonus are Huddersfield, Wolves, Leicester, Burnley and Crystal Palace #Scudamore

I bet the likes of Gold and Sullivan had their tongues right up Scudamores hoop.

 

[SAFC11]

The five clubs who refused to pay up £250k for the Scudamore bonus are Huddersfield, Wolves, Leicester, Burnley and Crystal Palace #Scudamore

Im disappointed its only 5 teams

 

[Wayne The Punk]

He was but it's common at the top level of managment to receive bonuses, and for it to be a token gesture in contracts. No saying I agree but it's quite a common occurence.

I have never heard of a token gesture in a contract, performance related bonus yes, but token gesture, no