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Justify a 400k salary

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  • #32
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    The president of the Dutch FA (close to 1 million members) gets €150.000 a year as far as i know.
    So €400.000 for the Irish FA president seems a bit much.
    About €350.000 too much.


  • #33
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    I'm on a Mac here, I don't think I have Google installed.

    "I don't think I have Google installed" WTF?? :eek: Whaddaya mean, "installed"?


  • #34
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    bluewolf wrote: »
    is this private income yes? who cares then

    The Government give the FAI money.


  • #35
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    All I know is that I'm well worth my salary of €6400 & free M&M's per year


  • #36
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    would love to know their reasons behind keeping their reasons secret. shouldn't a breakdown of their expenses and accounts be available to view somewhere?


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  • #37
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    inforfun wrote: »
    The president of the Dutch FA (close to 1 million members) gets €150.000 a year as far as i know.
    So €400.000 for the Irish FA president seems a bit much.
    About €350.000 too much.

    I was thinking about 400k too much. They run it like a bunch of amateurs so they should be paid as amateurs.


  • #38
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    tommyhaas wrote: »
    In alot of cases they do. Once the club earn more then that as a result of the players commercial worth and on-field contribution, they do earn it
    No, they really don't.

    I've noticed the definition of 'earn' has changed in modern times. Some bloke running around for 90 minutes and maybe kicking a bit of leather into a net has not 'earned' 250k. He is just paid that much. Regardless of what the club makes from him.


  • #39
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    If I had a 400k, it would be grand.

    Anybody else that has one is a cunt.

    On a serious note: the salary of John Delaney is certainly in poor taste seeing as the prize money for winning the League of Ireland premier division has been slashed by nearly 300% in the last 3 seasons.


  • #40
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    The notion of a salary like this is disgusting when the game at grassroots level is, by and large run by volunteers.


  • #41
    Vanderbilt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Vanderbilt


    It can't be justified. If you were feeling generous €150k tops imo.

    Wiki says he became CEO in 2004.

    Hardly surprising then that heres yet another guy with his snout in the trough.

    What sort of salary is his compatriot Philip Browne in the IRFU on I wonder......


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  • #42
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭subway


    stovelid wrote: »
    the prize money for winning the League of Ireland premier division has been slashed by nearly 300% in the last 3 seasons.
    you have to pay the FAI if you win???


  • #43
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    subway wrote: »
    you have to pay the FAI if you win???

    Believe it or not, clubs do have to pay the FAI around 20k a year to even compete in the league.

    Actually my calculation was bandy too. The league prize money went from 290k to 100k in 3 seasons, IIRC.


  • #44
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    400k salary is ridiculous, although i wouldnt complain if i was getting even a quarter of that...


  • #45
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    I'm on a Mac here, I don't think I have Google installed.

    :D


  • #46
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    phasers wrote: »
    No, they really don't.

    I've noticed the definition of 'earn' has changed in modern times. Some bloke running around for 90 minutes and maybe kicking a bit of leather into a net has not 'earned' 250k. He is just paid that much. Regardless of what the club makes from him.

    Now now, that's not entirely accurate. Some of them keep the bit of leather away from the net.


  • #47
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    I can justify many a €400,000 a year salary.



    But not this one.


  • #48
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    stovelid wrote: »
    Believe it or not, clubs do have to pay the FAI around 20k a year to even compete in the league.

    Actually my calculation was bandy too. The league prize money went from 290k to 100k in 3 seasons, IIRC.
    Teams have to pay for medals and officials accommodation/food for the league cup as well don't they?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #49
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Here is something I have noticed in life, im sure i am not the only one.
    When someone is on the recieving end of something (positively) doesnt matter what it is. They justify it. Especially when it comes to money.

    But then theres another side in life, if someone is willing to pay you a mental amount. Take it. Who here wouldnt take 400k to do that job? ... no-one would decline.


    Not to use those words again .. "begrudary" (gets thrown around alot) ... but lets look at the situation. everyone here would gladly accept that amount for that job, or any job. So ... how can you be against it, knowing you'd have no issues accepting it.

    So, begrudary / jealously.


  • #50
    goingpostal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 858 ✭✭✭goingpostal


    speedboatchase wrote: »
    Is it public money though? If not and it's purely private sector then it shouldn't bother people

    400k would buy a lot of nets, goalposts, lawnmowers, changing rooms, whiteline paint etc., for young boys and girls countrywide who want to play the game of soccer. The FAI (which claims to represent our nation in the sport of soccer) is an organisation with limited resources, the subject of whether paying 400k to a CEO and 1.8m approx. to a national team manager is the best use of those limited resources, when both jobs could be filled for far less, is a legitimate topic of debate. Seriously, who else is going to pay John Delaney or Trapatoni even a fraction of what they earn now, if they were sacked in the morning?

    The description of the meeting in Ennis in yesterdays Independent sounded like a cross between a cult meeting where everyone is forced to worship the fearless leader and a meeting of some totalitarian autocratic party. No debate vill be tolerated!! Sieg Heil, Mein Fearless Fuhrer!


  • #51
    Carter P Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Carter P Fly


    meh, Job was offered at 400k, he put his name forward and got it, fair dues to him.

    The question is why the FAI can justify paying Anybody this amount, not why this person in particualr is recieving it.


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  • #52
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Here is something I have noticed in life, im sure i am not the only one.
    When someone is on the recieving end of something (positively) doesnt matter what it is. They justify it. Especially when it comes to money.

    But then theres another side in life, if someone is willing to pay you a mental amount. Take it. Who here wouldnt take 400k to do that job? ... no-one would decline.


    Not to use those words again .. "begrudary" (gets thrown around alot) ... but lets look at the situation. everyone here would gladly accept that amount for that job, or any job. So ... how can you be against it, knowing you'd have no issues accepting it.

    So, begrudary / jealously.

    Have you seen the useless idiot?


  • #53
    goingpostal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 858 ✭✭✭goingpostal


    Carter P Fly wrote: »
    meh, Job was offered at 400k, he put his name forward and got it, fair dues to him.

    The question is why the FAI can justify paying Anybody this amount, not why this person in particualr is recieving it.

    If you really believe that Delaney got this job after a free and fair selection process, and that the size of his salary was decided with no input from the Mop-Headed One, then you really haven't been paying attention to how power works in this country.


  • #54
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    kraggy wrote: »
    The Government give the FAI money.

    WTMF?

    How much?


  • #55
    temply
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭temply


    Ricardo G wrote: »
    After watching the news on Saturday evening i was shocked to see that John Delaney is receving a salary of 400k per annum :eek:. Enda Kenny is on 230k per annum. What makes John Delaney so fantastic that he deserves it ?, he also stated that he took quite a substantial voluntary 50k drop in salary, Wow, how will he survice.......Madness


    John Delaney has nice hair.


  • #56
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Ricardo G wrote: »
    After watching the news on Saturday evening i was shocked to see that John Delaney is receving a salary of 400k per annum :eek:. Enda Kenny is on 230k per annum. What makes John Delaney so fantastic that he deserves it ?, he also stated that he took quite a substantial voluntary 50k drop in salary, Wow, how will he survice.......Madness

    He is an upstanding pillar of Ireland, he earns every penny he gets plus expenses.


    /s


  • #57
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    WTMF?

    How much?

    Well for starters, the state (i.e. us, the taxpayer) gave the FAI and the IRFU €191,000,000 for their new stadium on Lansdowne Road.

    As the stadium is jointly owned by both associations, that's €95,500,000 the FAI got from us towards their share of the stadium.

    15% or so of us are now out of work. Reports in the last few days said 20% of the people in Ireland have about €20 a week to spend after they pay their bills.

    Thousands of people (many without a penny to their name) give their time for nothing every weekend so kids can play football and all the while John Delaney picks up eight grand a week.

    That is vile.


  • #58
    logic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭logic


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    WTMF?

    How much?

    Back in 2006
    http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/1108/fai.html

    Probably increased since then.


  • #59
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Jesus Christ does it ever stop?


  • #60
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    Hi im john Delaney,
    im the head honsho in the fai,we are responsible for the Irish international football squad which are useless,and a few divisions of semi pro football teams none of which are making any profit..

    In most other eu countries i could almost justify the salary,but the level of interest here in Ireland just doesn't justify paying him that.He is worth 40k at tops


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  • #61
    goingpostal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 858 ✭✭✭goingpostal


    Also, last November, the FAI announced a lot of redundancies among their staff, a month before Xmas (nice timing). People who helped to promote and co-ordinate the game of soccer at the level that most of us live, were axed, while Delaney continues to earn the combined salary of the CEO's of the GAA and the IRFU, both sports that generate more revenue that soccer in this country. What I would like to know is, how many of those important FAI support jobs could have been saved, if Delaney had taken a 75% pay-cut and Trapatoni had been replaced by one of the more-than-competent League of Ireland managers that this country possesses?


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