John Delaney signs new €360,000 per year deal through 2020

Oat23

Not a joke and I feel ill. It's not like only 10 days ago it was revealed they have debts of over €50m. He is still earning more than the CEOs England, Spain, Italy, Germany etc..

The total pot for the League of Ireland is €241,500.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/john-delaney-signs-new-18million-deal-with-fai-30438869.html

Sidenote:
If the results for the NT don't pick up, we will be overtaken by Palestine.
Palestine.

Milkers

I'm sure there was a thorough and impartial assessment of his performance in the job and it was decided his results warranted this pay package. That's how we do things in Ireland, right?

Lovely Bloke

Lovely Bloke.

gucci

"iv been offered salaries above what I'm paid. i haven't them because i love what I'm doing"

translation: i know iv got it good where i am and i ain't going no where where i will have to do a job that someone will make me accountable for my performance!

GavRedKing

I'd love to know whos offered him more than 360k a year.

Francie Barrett

“You go back to 1996, the turnover of the FAI was about €7m, last year it was €36m, next year it will be close to €40m. We have really driven the association forward as a business. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/john-delaney-signs-new-18million-deal-with-fai-30438869.html#sthash.JErdl1hm.dpuf

Seems fair enough of a salary if he's generating all this revenue.

Sacksian

Is there actually any mechanism to protest or block decisions like this in the FAI?

Who are the stakeholders that might prevent this level of remuneration?

There are loads of volunteers putting in incredible hours for free coaching and administration at every level of football in the country, from schoolboy coaches to the directors of LOI football clubs - how can they not have a voice in the FAI?

He must have a lot of dirt on a lot of people to get these deals!

Not sure if it's been posted already, but good article on FAI finances here: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/fai-turnover-falls-for-second-year-1.1859130

ButtersSuki

There's a very funny Gift Grub sketch where Delaney lists all the jobs he was offered - can't look for it now but worth searching for.

dundalkfc10

Sacksian wrote: »

Is there actually any mechanism to protest or block decisions like this in the FAI?

Who are the stakeholders that might prevent this level of remuneration?

There are loads of volunteers putting in incredible hours for free coaching and administration at every level of football in the country, from schoolboy coaches to the directors of LOI football clubs - how can they not have a voice in the FAI?

He must have a lot of dirt on a lot of people to get these deals!

Not sure if it's been posted already, but good article on FAI finances here: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/fai-turnover-falls-for-second-year-1.1859130

Petrol, Lighter and a Christmas Tree

Lovely Bloke

Sacksian wrote: »

Is there actually any mechanism to protest or block decisions like this in the FAI?

Who are the stakeholders that might prevent this level of remuneration?

There are loads of volunteers putting in incredible hours for free coaching and administration at every level of football in the country, from schoolboy coaches to the directors of LOI football clubs - how can they not have a voice in the FAI?

He must have a lot of dirt on a lot of people to get these deals!

Not sure if it's been posted already, but good article on FAI finances here: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/fai-turnover-falls-for-second-year-1.1859130

lol, he fills the top positions with people who will do his bidding, any sign of not doing so and you'd be out on your ear.

The FAI is not and never has been a democracy, it's more like a more extreme North Korea.

anncoates

Sacksian wrote: »

Is there actually any mechanism to protest or block decisions like this in the FAI?]

It's a fiefdom.

0ph0rce0

The FAI are Loosing money everywhere,

He gets a pay rise.

The Lower employees are being forced to take pay cuts. Not hard to see where they get the money to pay him.

Sacksian

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Petrol, Lighter and a Christmas Tree

Ha! I realise that but it's pretty depressing that the only thing you can do when seeing stuff like this is to vent about John Delaney. I guess it comes down to the lack of bargaining power the LOI has with the FAI, so everything just comes down to another "how to save the league" discussion.

Sacksian

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

lol, he fills the top positions with people who will do his bidding, any sign of not doing so and you'd be out on your ear.

The FAI is not and never has been a democracy, it's more like a more extreme North Korea.

Yeah, I used to have a team in the (then) Leinster Junior League and watching the top table at the monthly meetings was something like that.

But I know from dealing with other clubs in athletics (and the LOI) is that the only reason these guys are making decisions is because they're the only ones turning up to meetings and volunteering to do the administration - or maybe they're the only ones who can put up with all the rules/regulations/standing orders/constitutions/etc of amateur sports. Even for the blazers, there's a hell of a lot of hours put in.

death1234567

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Seems fair enough of a salary if he's generating all this revenue.

He's not generating any of that revenue. He's a clueless buffoon. The government should suspend all grant's etc. to the FAI as if they can afford to waste millions on an idiot CEO then they clearly don't need taxpayers money.

Richard Hillman

The National team is at an all time low.
Interest in the national team is at an all time low
The National league is stagnant in terms of interest.
The National League's UEFA Co-Efficient has been plummeting (Although will go up this year)
The Junior Football Associations are constantly rowing with each other and some will not even acknowledge each other.
The National Stadium is already outdated and will need a new one as soon as its paid off.


Great job JD. Here is to 6 more years. Horaaah!!!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

In fairness, he did manage to negotiate a deal with the IRFU where the FAI will help pay for the Aviva development yet won't actually retain long term ownership, absolute genius!!!

So what's the plan to help improve our domestic league John?
So what's the plan to stop our National sides world ranking from dropping further?

Ignore the domestic league and pray English teams develop enough of our players to a high enough standard. Absolute genius!!!

LostBoy101

That's like signing a death warrant for Irish football.

Agent Coulson

€1000 a day for the next 6 years.

“It’s a great job to have, I love the job, no question about that. But it is a 24/7 job, weekends as well.”

I like the "weekends as well" bit like no one else has to work weekends!

lol

Hank Scorpio

Ireland, Bill.

The Mig

Bought me a pint on a away trip before. I like him!

bennyineire

Meanwhile this year LOI champs can look forward to 100K prize money, that btw is for the whole Club whilst the fund for the whole league is €241,500.
Now this muppet is gonna get 360K a year, makes my blood boil. Source http://www.thescore.ie/airtricity-league-prize-fund-2014-1338155-Feb2014/

EuropeanSon

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

lol, he fills the top positions with people who will do his bidding, any sign of not doing so and you'd be out on your ear.

The FAI is not and never has been a democracy, it's more like a more extreme North Korea.

:rolleyes:

Francie Barrett

death1234567 wrote: »

He's not generating any of that revenue. He's a clueless buffoon. The government should suspend all grant's etc. to the FAI as if they can afford to waste millions on an idiot CEO then they clearly don't need taxpayers money.

These commercial deals that the FAI have been doing don't happen by themselves.

anncoates

bennyineire wrote: »

Meanwhile this year LOI champs can look forward to 100K prize money

You can deduct a fifth of that for the money they have to pay for "league affiliation".

Too Tough To Die

Can't knock his hustle.

DundalkDuffman

In fairness the price of slabs of beer on European trains is quite high, seems fair enough to me. Also remember the picture of him in Poland the day Monaghan United went out of business. He took it really hard judging by his expression.

jmayo

GavRedKing wrote: »

I'd love to know whos offered him more than 360k a year.

PSG perhaps ?

The Mig wrote: »

Bought me a pint on a away trip before. I like him!

You poor mug.
He didn't buy you a pint, the FAI did i.e. all the football fans/parents who ever spend a cent either at Ireland games or on any Irish team merchandising.

Do you think he wouldn't expense every single cent he spent while "working hard for Ireland" on those away trips.

I could see delaney going far in UEFA, FIFA, etc.

He has all the credentials necessary and after all didn't he do a fine job of ar**licking blatter and platini even though they were insulting us.

Zebra3

No wonder football in this country is f**ked. :mad:

The_Kew_Tour

RIP to football in this country.

We deserve all the bad luck we get.

Corholio

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Seems fair enough of a salary if he's generating all this revenue.

I would say £50 million in debt would trump any revenue.

Absolute joke.

LuckyLloyd

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Can't knock his hustle.

This basically. Delaney is obviously a master of organisational politics and manipulation. There's little point complaining about things that you don't have the power to influence or change tbh.

secman

He's just a smaller version of Blatter..... surrounds himself by turkeys............who will never vote for Christmas............ When compared to other chief Exec of national Football assoc..............it really is a joke.......

Gavin "shels"

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I like the "weekends as well" bit like no one else has to work weekends!

lol

Mantis Toboggan

Rooney earns that in around 8 days. Seems a fare salary for a guy who's responsible for football throughout the entire country.

iDave

I don't like jumping on the 'FAI are a useless shower' bandwagon but when you compare his salary to overall fund for the LOI its ridiculous.

Kristopherus

Can't believe the Sports Council have no clout when it comes to Delaney's dosh. IMHO 160K would be too much for him:mad:.

_Puma_

Couldn't have been a worse outcome for the local and national game.

Corholio

Buddy Holly wrote: »

Rooney earns that in around 8 days. Seems a fare salary for a guy who's responsible for football throughout the entire country.

Compare it to other CEO's and no it's not fair......at all.

Also the word 'responsible' there should be used very loosely.

seligehgit

Disgraceful

GoodisonPark

A Grand a day !!
Nice gig !!

LuckyLloyd

iDave wrote: »

I don't like jumping on the 'FAI are a useless shower' bandwagon but when you compare his salary to overall fund for the LOI its ridiculous.

Unfortunately, from a strictly utalitarian perspective the league doesn't need to be improved. It exists, and that's all it needs to do at a bare minimum.

- we get to have an International team which is where the real cheddar is;
- the youth clubs collate players and they get farmed out to the English club system which prepares enough of a player base to support the International panel;

Obviously, a stronger LOI would have huge benefits and it would be great to retain greater control of Irish player development but, strictly speaking, it isn't essential. Delaney and the FAI make more sense in that context.

Zico

It's typical FAI.

This guy weaseled his way into the job by bringing down Bernard O'Byrne for misusing funds and here he is doing the same thing.

Remember this sh1t?;

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/seeds-were-sown-on-battle-ground-to-provide-new-home-for-irish-soccer-26329991.html

Corholio

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Unfortunately, from a strictly utalitarian perspective the league doesn't need to be improved. It exists, and that's all it needs to do at a bare minimum.

- we get to have an International team which is where the real cheddar is;
- the youth clubs collate players and they get farmed out to the English club system which prepares enough of a player base to support the International panel;

Obviously, a stronger LOI would have huge benefits and it would be great to retain greater control of Irish player development but, strictly speaking, it isn't essential. Delaney and the FAI make more sense in that context.

They don't make sense at all. I'd gladly have a really crap International team if it made the system change in this country, I'd gladly see a few of the youth teams in this country fall back to reality as well. The F.A.I have allowed such a ridiculous system to go on and even get bigger.

LuckyLloyd

Corholio wrote: »

They don't make sense at all. I'd gladly have a really crap International team if it made the system change in this country, I'd gladly see a few of the youth teams in this country fall back to reality as well. The F.A.I have allowed such a ridiculous system to go on and even get bigger.

Meh, they're making the money they need to make this way. What YOU (or like minded people) want is irrelevant.

Pro. F

Oh look, Lloyd is here to shine the light of reason on all of us poor souls. Here we all were thinking that we could topple the despot of Irish football and rid the FAI of corruption by expressing exasperation on an internet forum. Lucky for us he's shown us the error of our ways.

LuckyLloyd

Pro. F wrote: »

Oh look, Lloyd is here to shine the light of reason on all of us poor souls. Here we all were thinking that we could topple the despot of Irish football and rid the FAI of corruption by expressing exasperation on an internet forum. Lucky for us he's shown us the error of our ways.

I think there's place on this thread to note the reality of the situation amongst all of the 'death warrant for Irish football / the FAI don't care about the LOI don't you know' hand wringing. It also allowed you to write a condescending post too, and I know you dig that.

hjkl

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

This basically. Delaney is obviously a master of organisational politics and manipulation. There's little point complaining about things that you don't have the power to influence or change tbh.

I don't agree with this whatsoever. That is a horrible attitude to take imo. The average Irish football fan may have little to no power to influence or change things, but in no way does that mean that they should not voice their disatisfaction with Delaney and the FAI's running of the game in Ireland. The people should always let the powers that be aware of any disatisfaction, otherwise how would anyone know that there was any.

osarusan

I don't understand why he is on a term contract, rather than the usual employee contract.

Pro. F

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I think there's place on this thread to note the reality of the situation amongst all of the 'death warrant for Irish football / the FAI don't care about the LOI don't you know' hand wringing. It also allowed you to write a condescending post too, and I know you dig that.

You are acting like everybody complaining about Delaney doesn't know that the FAI are only interested in the LOI's survival in so far as they need to fulfil their FIFA requirements for fielding an international team; or that they don't know that he is impossible to get rid of; or that they don't know that youth development is set up arseways, because the FAI don't care to fix it. Everybody knows these things.

Downplaying everybody's concerns and exasperation with those things and with the despotic and dysfunctional governing body as "hand wringing" and saying what they want is irrelevant is not "noting reality", it's being a dick.

robertxxx

I'd say pay him more, more to leave.