John Delaney/ tugging off half the forum

But is the registration issue not going back 3 years? Before he even joined Regional ?

Goes back to when he was playing in Japan, apparently.

Donā€™t know the exact ins and outs of it but apparently there was a cock up with the registration alright. An honest mistake. Desperately harsh on them.

Sheriff should have just offered a replay.

Twitter is some haven for fools. Thereā€™s a lot of the noise boxes wondering aloud whether Delaneyā€™s rent being paid will be investigated by Revenue for BIK purposes. Despite reports about 3 tweets up saying it was fully declared for BIK.

Clowns.

Surely thereā€™s more to this than cash flow/marital issues?

And surely he wonā€™t survive in his new made up role of there are real issues.

Overlooked was the fact that, at the end of 2016, the tycoon Denis Oā€™Brien had pulled his commitment of ā‚¬900,000 a year to cover 70% of Martin Oā€™Neillā€™s and Roy Keaneā€™s salaries. So, despite a windfall from reaching Euro 2016 in France, from 2017 onwards the FAI had to pay Oā€™Neillā€™s and Keaneā€™s full salaries and they had both negotiated large pay hikes after qualifying for the tournament.

The Times suggest this was a genuine short-term loan now? :man_shrugging:

Many CEOs would have looked for a 7 figure payout to step aside and nearly bankrupt the FAI in the process. Dela has shown that Irish football will always come ahead of his own interests by stepping down into a lower role with a lower salary while still offering everything he has to the game.

Itā€™s disgusting the way the media have it in for him on the basis of nothing, they are blowing every small bit of news on him out of proportion, when he bags Ā£5m for his association, they go for him, when he forks out ā‚¬100k out of his own pocket to help the association out of cash flow problems, they go for him. Why are these even issues to the talenetless hacks in the Irish sports media?

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Ewan is alluding to there being more to it. Not a resigning matter as is but then he hasnā€™t really resigned, has he? Heā€™s just kept all the nice parts of the job and gotten rid of the shitty domestic bits.

The marital bit doesnā€™t really make sense. Why would he be so precious about 100k. Unless there were loads of 100ks being dished out. And heā€™d have been clever enough not to use the FAI as a haven.

Benis Oā€™Drien left them in a bit of a hole in fairness.

Iā€™d say Dela had this moved planned anyway so he could get more involved with the UEFA gig, just brought it forward. Heā€™ll probably take a pay cut and keep the UEFA money he was giving back and end up better off.

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Stupidest shite the Mejia ever came out with was when Delaney had cleverly not signed a contract with Martin Oā€™Neill. Real street smarts and foresight by JD, great business. The mejia got wind of it, blew it into a scandal forced Delaney to sign a contract and cost Irish football a small fortune in no time. No apologies were ever given by those journalists, no acknowledgment of the balls they had made or JDā€™s business genius, just sweep-sweep.

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Really pitiful stuff from The Sunday Times.

Using photoshop to ā€œaddā€ to the story of a senior executive having some BIKs.

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A media who will fail to investigate the Dublin/Monaghan bombings, the priest murdered by associates of a FF minister, Mary Boyle, the Stardust fire but yet will go hell for leather when a football administrator puts his employerā€™s own interests ahead of his own.

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Some boy is John nearly 400k a year in wages and also gets the FAI to pay his 3k a week rent.

whats the issue, he bagged 5m from FIFA

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Taz must work for his employer for free.

As Pee Flynn pointed out when you a successful big shot running your houses(s) is tough going.
The association were just helping the main man, so he could focus all his energies on football matters

You quisling little cuntā€¦ No surprise really from a blue shirt. This thread has flushed out all the quislings reallyā€¦ And we wonder why we have such corruption in Ireland.

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EPL fan wondering why Oireland cant be like an EPL team

lolz

I donā€™t think itā€™s a scandal that a senior executive gets some benefits from his employer.

Do any of you chaps get a car allowance in work, or does your employer cover your health insurance or professional fees or a gym or club membership maybe?

Itā€™s a complete non-story.

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Im sure yours pays your rent as well