New boss to earn quarter of Taylor pay

April’s Annual General Meeting. Molango will earn £500,000 a year, a quarter of Taylor’s wage. He fought off the likes of PFA chairman Ben Purkiss and former Everton midfielder Gareth Farrelly, who both made the latter stages of the process. The PFA’s four non-executive directors, hired late last year, carried out the final interviews and settled on Molango. The move has raised eyebrows across the game, given his perceived lack of experience. However, insiders say the panel wanted to bring a ‘freshness’ to the organisation and Molango being a relative outsider stood him in good stead. Molango played 26 times in England and has practised law in Spain and the United States. Following two promotions with Mallorca, he was sacked with the team bottom of La Liga. Weeks later, he was reportedly questioned as part of a moneylaundering investigation into Albanian agent Fali Ramadani. The new PFA chief has not faced any charges. Reflecting on his Mallorca exit last February, Molango said: ‘It was not traumatic. It was a matter of having different ideas on key issues. When you have spent four years at a club, it is not good to wear yourself out.’ Molango was one of six football figures in a recent Amazon series and — following his sacking in Spain — was filmed watching the team suffer relegation from the stands.

Maheta Molango is set to become the new chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ association in a left-field appointment that has stunned many of the union’s members — and it means current incumbent gordon taylor could be gone as early as next month. the little-known 38-year-old, a qualified lawyer, hails from Switzerland but played a handful of matches in England’s lower leagues between 2004 and 2007. molango previously served as chief executive of Spanish outfit real mallorca, though he was sacked early last year. taylor, who earns around £2million a year, has been in the role for forty years. it is understood his contract runs until late June. However, should molango ask to start in the near future, the change could go through following