Scudamore’s £6m TV rights bonanza
PREMIER LEaguE executive chairman Richard Scudamore is in line to receive a £6million bonus for his TV rights work.
The league’s audit and remuneration group, headed by Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, will be discussing Scudamore’s reward now that the final total of £8.3billion from home and overseas contracts has been agreed. His bonus will be spread over the three years of the latest deal, which starts next season.
Scudamore has received a 50 per cent rise in his bonus after each of the three-year rights cycles since being paid £2m in 2007. The figure rose to £3m in 2010 and £4.5m in 2013.
and PL clubs, enjoying unprecedented riches due to the negotiating skills of Scudamore and key advisers, will hardly complain if the committee agree another 50 per cent rise.
There is no fixed matrix for working out the TV bonus but Buck, Stoke’s Peter Coates, Sunderland’s Ellis Short and Blackburn’s John Williams are left to make their own judgment.
However, even £6m would only put Scudamore’s annual package — his salary is around £1m — on a par with Manchester united executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and still way short of the £24m NFL commissioner Roger goodell received in 2014.
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