Sigh
I am not disputing that, I was just missing on his potential roadmap for getting out of there. He had one in his head.
Don’t humour him mate. Diehard man utd fans aren’t stakeholders here
1 Like
All criminals and gamblers would claim the same ‘one more big win and I’m turning legitimate, I swear.’
Right, you seem stuck in that train of thought. Hickey went because of dodgy ticket sales, it was a different kettle of fish to Delaney.
Delaney put a rod on his own back saying the debt would be gone by 2020 if the FAI wished. He really did not need to do that, but the motivations and logistics to get there were there. There was a lovely bonus there and the chance to go out with games in Dublin at Euro 2020, when his stock would not have been higher with UEFA. In reality, he didn’t need to do this, the debt could always have been pushed out to release cash.
The reality is, for all the talk of €55m of debt, at the time that Delaney went it was around €30m due to the bank.
There was something like €15m due in UEFA tv money by the end of 2020.
There was a new sponsorship deal coming up with 3, which I imagine he thought he could front load a million or so to.
There were renewals of the first batch of 10 year tickets in 2020, I imagine he thought he could bring a few million off that.
Then there was the potential to qualify for the tournament.
There was a roadmap there for him to get out.
3 Likes
I seem to remember some dodgy spending on the card, which, in most normal companies would be called theft, and result in immediate dismissal and prosecution.
You’re doing a power of imagining there Tim.
It was a few thousand extra euro a quarter. For a guy that travels regularly. It was a drop in the ocean for a multi million euro company - I’m not commenting on the moral perspective of it either.
If that had been the sole revelation then he’d have brazened it out. Delaney had a thought process that he wasn’t accepting the UEFA cheque himself and that would have covered things off regardless.
As Champagne Football showed, it was the drip feed of revelations that did him in.
What about the ladies handbags and the like?
He’d have been out the door of any normal company, with the gardai informed.
Not really, it’s reality.
They “only” brought it a few million euro off the 2010 batch. A few million is all I am talking about here, with a better price point and better economy.
2020 was earmarked for a reason, it was when a lot of cash was due into the FAI…
I’d agree with you, just saying that it would likely not have done him in and I’m explaining the thought process by him for an exit from the FAI…
He put a sneaky bonus for himself in for then for a reason.
It’s funny the way himself and his assorted simpleton hangers on in the IFSC pretend ira are quietly seething and feeling hard done by.
It’s made what a couple of free pints and a few free tickets to a half empty Aviva will do for some fellas.
1 Like
I just recalled that I & a colleague got a pair of free tickets to the Andorra game from BOI all the way back in 2010 
1 Like
RIP John
Is Robbie Keane still getting €200k a year for nothing?
He should be back in the squad if he is
Is it not bad form for him to hold them to that agreement? I doubt he needs the money.
it is
1 Like
No sane individual should ever hold a company credit card. It is the easiest route to removal from the company. If memory serves me correctly one of Delas predecessors Bernard O Byrne was run out of the FAI because of irregularities on the FAI credit card.
4 Likes
Delaney was a gas man in fairness. The “Man of the People” act with the FAI credit card, knowing said organisation was virtually potless was reminiscent of CJH.
Unfortunately for his supporters, his legacy is in the bin. A hustler.
1 Like