Oh it does, yep. Look at the difference between, say, Benfica and Santa Clara, or Celtic and St Mirren
Oh it does, yep. Look at the difference between, say, Benfica and Santa Clara, or Celtic and St Mirren
And Pico Lopes!Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
Absolutely. What a story that is. And another win for Rovers. 😎
Don't know where to put this, from the IT's budget updates:
Football academies
There is €3 million allocated to support the establishment of League of Ireland football academies for young talent. More money is to follow in future years and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers suggested it could “build a new era for football in our country”.
I think the more interesting thing is that Sport Ireland rather than the FAI will administer the scheme and also a lot less than the clubs were looking for.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025...3m-in-funding/
Wouldn't be too worried about it being less than the FAI were going for - I'd be disappointed if they didn't go in with more than they were looking for to be honest.
A couple of pro staff at each club could make a sizeable difference in fairness.
Im guessing its 3 million devided by 20 and ringfenced to cover additional Full time employees...
Or is this the way the FAI finally unload all there civil service hours coaches and they become employed by the clubs EGHHhhh. hope not
They should have thrown us an extra 20k for a sports psychologist
I think it's between 26 clubs, to include the LOI underage clubs that don't have a senior side; Klub Kildare, etc.
This is correct. Apparently each club to receive about €115k each, ringfenced towards staffing and academy operations.
The important thing is the ringfencing, it's beneficial for all parties I think. The pressure/incentive will always be there for clubs to spend the money elsewhere if the option to do so isn't completely closed off.
I wonder whether the administration by Sport Ireland was encouraged by the FAI or whether they were told it was the only way the money was going to be made available? Again, it seems like a good move, for similar reasons to the ringfencing.
IRFU charging €160 for the Cat A tickets. https://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2025/...reality-potts/ i remember being sick seeing the Armenia game's Cat A tickets being €100 but €160 is hard to comprehend.
I was talking to someone a few weeks ago who works with accounts and talking about the FAI and the upcoming redundancies. he pulled up the accounts online and we paid about €2m a year in interest (while reducing the legacy debt by about €1m - so about €3m in total paid). that's the real issue in all this. this conversation was prior to their restructuring of debt over a longer timescale, which likely means more interest ultimately paid out (over a longer time).
i was saying to him is the real issue moving the debt across in a way that we're repaying the government rather than a bank - so that you half or cut in three the time it takes to be debt free. he said the governments position is they've basically already done the bailout and the FAI needs to prove that it can run itself responsibly and within its means but that's really difficult when there's still so much debt dragging it down.
Also interesting that Paul Cooke isn't taking any wages, which surprised me.
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I'm assume the home team for the playoffs take all of the gate receipts?
Can the FAI expect to make much money having made it this far? I'm assuming they'll move a lot more season tickets now that there could be a world cup playoff in Dublin.
Does anyone have an idea how much of a dent in the debt would making the world cup proper do for the FAI?
They were charging €90 to sit in the gods in the upper West stand for the Japan game. An absolute rip off
Group stage elimination is about €8m, last 32 €12m, 16 is 15m and then increases in much bigger amounts after. Im presuming these are minimum payments. I doubt there is UEFA like additional payments for win/draw. Huge chunk of the 1b pot goes to the club fund, disproportionately imo with 400m for their players' participation and covering potential injuries. Rovers will get money for Lopes, maybe a few LoI clubs should balance up the worth of signing a few Curacao lads this winter. But its money after money with the biggest clubs in the biggest associations getting the most money, so little redistribution of funds, more of just cycling funds around the top table.
Ticket sales proportion Im sure goes to football associations even in just the admin cost. Offical merch like new one off jerseys. Sponsorship of course. So a decent and probably lower side guesstimate would be €10m, aim at 5m net and the rest is bonus territory. Add in boost to season ticket sales, that some of the baggage with the FAI will be shed so sponsorship will improve well after. Its game changer stuff in terms of debt management, restructuring, future improvement in available funds - even if its just paying down loans to reduce the regular interest payment. It would come at a time after a lot of redundancies and cost cutting so would facilitate more clean slate type targeting of money in, even starting a bit of a reserve fund....
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