"John Delaney could run anything. He could run UEFA. Easily. "

D Trent · 07-09-2014 10:11PM #1

According to the big man himself Denis O'Brien
Ah bless

http://m.independent.ie/videos/highlights/john-the-baptist-part-1-30565080.html

donvito99 · 07-09-2014 10:11PM

...into the ground.

donvito99 · 07-09-2014 10:12PM

YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

V_Moth · 07-09-2014 10:16PM

"John Delaney could run anything. He could run UEFA. Easily."

Two obvious typos. It should read:

"John Delaney could ruin anything. He could ruin UEFA. Easily."

Brendan Flowers · 07-09-2014 10:17PM

D Trent wrote: »

According to the big man himself Denis O'Brien
Ah bless

http://m.independent.ie/videos/highlights/john-the-baptist-part-1-30565080.html

Any reason why you think he couldn't?

dan1895 · 07-09-2014 10:17PM

Lovely bloke.

Tail Docker · 07-09-2014 10:18PM

dan1895 wrote: »

Lovely bloke.

Who is? I thought this was about John Delaney??

Peregrine · 07-09-2014 10:18PM

Who?

Edit: Okay, looked him up there. Does anyone want to brief me on what he did? :pac:

mikemac1 · 07-09-2014 10:20PM

Brendan Flowers wrote: »

Any reason why you think he couldn't?

FAI is 50 million in debt

Not something for the CEO to be proud of

catallus · 07-09-2014 10:20PM

John Delaney is a hero. He should run UEFA.

Amirani · 07-09-2014 10:21PM

Brendan Flowers wrote: »

Any reason why you think he couldn't?

His failure to run his own national association with any degree of success?

RikkFlair · 07-09-2014 10:24PM

He couldn't run a ****ing bath

renegademaster · 07-09-2014 10:24PM

donkey of a man!!

Leroy42 · 07-09-2014 10:25PM

While the state of the national team is obviously not the only criteria in the judgement of the CEO of the FAI, how much weight should it be given?

Teh national team has continued to slide down the rankings. While he has been instrumental in getting the new stadium built, teams like Arsenal (I'm not comparing them in football terms) showed that the team can remain competitive whilst having to be constrained by budget.

At this point, given the years he has been in the job, is the lack of high quality players coming through for the senior team, seen as an inditement of the overall effectiveness of the FAI and therefore its CEO.

FloatingVoter · 07-09-2014 10:28PM

Go the whole hog and give him the bloody FIFA job. Anybody but Blatter at this point.

Grandeeod · 07-09-2014 10:28PM

His new girlfriend is with him for the money and profile. He's a gimp. Full stop.

Highflyer13 · 07-09-2014 10:28PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

FAI is 50 million in debt

Not something for the CEO to be proud of

Ah would ya schtop. A bit of debt is nothing to be ashamed of. The economy just took a bad turn, that's all.

Pedro K · 07-09-2014 10:30PM

Look at the League of Ireland. The league winning team gets prize money of €100k, Delaney earns €360k a year. In fact his wage is greater than the cumulative prize money for the entire LOI. He's a joke of a CEO

4zn76tysfajdxp · 07-09-2014 10:31PM

Doesn't the winning team of the LoI get something like €100,000 where he's on a half a mil salary or something? Something rotten there.

edit: snap

Mr. RED · 07-09-2014 10:31PM

Pedro K wrote: »

Look at the League of Ireland. The league win ing team gets prize money of €100k, Delaney earns €360k a year. In fact his wage is greater than the cumulative prize money for the entire LOI. He's a joke of a CEO

Ah here! Away 'a that! I heard he bought a few fans a pint over abroad! Sound man!

Highflyer13 · 07-09-2014 10:36PM

Claire Unimportant Mop wrote: »

Doesn't the winning team of the LoI get something like €100,000 where he's on a half a mil salary or something? Something rotten there.

edit: snap

All the rotten fcukers are sorted out in this country while big Dennis pulls the strings. I'm looking at this fella ending up in Irish water.

http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=28328

dan1895 · 07-09-2014 10:36PM

Pedro K wrote: »

Look at the League of Ireland. The league win ing team gets prize money of €100k, Delaney earns €360k a year. In fact his wage is greater than the cumulative prize money for the entire LOI. He's a joke of a CEO

The affiliation fee for the following year then comes out of that and back to the FAI and I think that's €19,000. Joke of association.

artanevilla · 07-09-2014 10:40PM

I think he has a point.

FAI = Joke: Delaney, UEFA = Joke: Plantini.

Two shameful organisations, both poorly ran so I don't see how Delaney would be any different to UEFA than Plantini.

Perhaps the only stumbling block would be trying to placate the whole of Europe with a few cans of Carlsberg on a train.

Dots1982 · 09-09-2014 04:51PM

Don't forget I'm off to meet the queen tomorrow.

Berserker · 09-09-2014 05:29PM

Pedro K wrote: »

Look at the League of Ireland. The league winning team gets prize money of €100k, Delaney earns €360k a year. In fact his wage is greater than the cumulative prize money for the entire LOI. He's a joke of a CEO

Absolutely insane. I didn't realise it was that bad. Let's not forget that the majority of the top flight clubs in the country are far from healthy as well and it looks like the FAI is doing little to force/help them resolve their respective situations.

The FAI looks at the senior international team as the cash cow and the rest of the game can do what it likes. Alas, the senior international team is not bring in the crowds, with the last two home games attracting 30K people in total. They have sold just over 10K season tickets which are far cheaper than they were when they were introduced years ago. The FAI is probably banking on the English, Poles and Scots bringing large numbers to their respective games, as it will give them some much needed revenue. The English game might sell out actually because it's England and it'll attract the usual clown element from here.

Pedro K · 09-09-2014 05:37PM

dan1895 wrote: »

The affiliation fee for the following year then comes out of that and back to the FAI and I think that's €19,000. Joke of association.

Yep. And only the top three places in the premier league pay more than €19,000 in prize money. Which means unless you get top three, you're already at a loss before paying stewards, gardai, utilities etc.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 09-09-2014 06:00PM

He's a bullsh1t artist of the highest order.

bit of a bogey · 09-09-2014 06:41PM

Pedro K wrote: »

Look at the League of Ireland. The league winning team gets prize money of €100k, Delaney earns €360k a year. In fact his wage is greater than the cumulative prize money for the entire LOI. He's a joke of a CEO

+1 on this. How does this **** still go on in this day and age? Is there actually nothing that can be done? Irish clubs cant be happy with his leadership. If they even combined to boycott 1 weekend of football to highlight the hypocrisy and to shame the FAI golden circle into change