QuoteNot forgetting ~ The Front People of Judea ! ! !Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
i believe they basically said it reflected the fact that both senior managers were reporting directly to him. assume it comes with a 70k salary bump or whatever (FAI refused to comment if there was a salary increase)
Not forgetting ~ The Front People of Judea ! ! !
Refusing to comment on whether there is a salary increase shows that they know that this is as popular as a wet fart. Its stuff like this that proves why these guys dont deserve any extra government funds and shows why that in turn hurts football in the country.
Its really not that complicated!!!
Announcing a pay rise for Canham on the same day they announced the cancellation of the emerging talent programme wouldn't have been a good look. But it seems very likely that is what has happened.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2024...nt-ceo-of-fai/
Interim CEO announced as permanent CEO
They air-gapped that nicely.
These cnuts love appointing the interim, JOS would have been a shoe in for the manager gig if he had managed to do a half way competent job in the 4 games.
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Its really not that complicated!!!
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...075345608.html
More worrying times for FAI staff with further redundancies and cutbacks. I genuinely can’t get my head around how the organisation running a sport so popular in Ireland is consistently in such a bad place.
Champagne Rugby
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-unio...s/cy0gxjl4e5eo
Dear RFU,Sweeney's basic salary has grown hugely in the five years he has been in the job, from £430,000 to £742,000. While the RFU says his salary is in line with other companies of a similar size, Sweeney remains one of the highest paid administrators in UK sport.
He has spent much of his tenure firefighting - whether due to the performance of the men's senior side, his decision to hand Eddie Jones a new contract in 2020, the botched handling of tackle heights at community level, the future of the second-tier Championship, or four professional clubs going bust on his watch - but there is no doubt Sweeney has an unenviably wide brief and a huge amount of responsibility.
My name is Jawn. I used to run a football organisation in Ireland and if you think your CEO has a habit of ****ing things up proper-like, you should see what I'm capable of…
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Mark Canham has left. Not sure how bothered I am about this really. The FAI joint statement effectively says in three years he developed a pathway plan. (Yet is now the time for sections to kick back against it? The calendar switch in particular)
Remember Richie Sadlier implying there was a bit more to come out regarding the FAI in the context of the Canham/Healy issue. The fact that Canham's departure has been announced before they have identified a successor seemingly could imply that this isn't simply a case of Canham wanting to move back to England.
Himself and Hill have taken the guts of €1 million from the FAI through salaries in the past few years and you’d wonder what we have to show for it.
Certainly strange timing as well given all the recent strategies and plans released, with Canham heavily involved
The FAI having no successor lined up suggests he wasn't sacked.
Yet the fact that he has no new job to go to, and presuming that he will only receive the minimum payout of his contract, suggests that Canham saw some reason up ahead to persuade him that it was time to "get out of Dodge".
It could be the Healy business, as you say, though a quiet NDA payout could maybe settle that one? Alternatively, the FAI's Football Pathways Plan is clearly identified as being Canham's project. If, having seen the figures, he's worried that he might not be able to get 20 viable teams for the new National League; and/or the shift to Summer football for all is proving trickier than first thought, maybe he doesn't want to be still there should it subsequently fall apart? He has to think of his Linked-In page, after all.
There won't be many going out of their way to express much disappointment that he's gone I suspect. Pretty much everything he touched seemed to go pear shaped, and his only notable achievement - if there ends up being one - could be bringing in Hallgrimsson, which possibly happened by accident more than anything, after what appeared to be a shambolic recruitment process looking in from the outside.
There's always a concern about what comes next with these things though. No guarantee that the next person in will be any better.
I think you might be overestimating the capability of the FAI here.
Yeah, this is about that. Think he also said there were things he couldn't talk about but football wasn't about power point presentations, or words to that effect, and that was at Canham IMO. This is a heave against him having succeeded and I guess more will emerge now, and it will be interesting reading. He was knee deep in a well paid overhaul of structures, while WFH in England mostly, AFAIK so its not about homesickness
Wasn't he living in Ireland? Remember it being mentioned after he got the job that he and his family had relocated to live here.
Malahide
This paragraph from Dan McDonnell this morning is probably the most damning of all on Canham in my view:
"Hallgrimsson’s contract is up at the end of the year after the World Cup campaign so he will now be unsure about who holds the power. His assistant John O’Shea might also be wondering what Canham’s departure means as he was viewed as the heir apparent to the Icelander. A new face could see it differently."
What kind of football mind would look at O'Shea's time with Ireland and think he's the man for the job next time around? He'd potentially have gotten it this time if the team hadn't been absolutely awful during his caretaker period in charge. Suspect that's why O'Shea has been hanging around rather than moving on and taking a manager job elsewhere, he thinks the FAI will just hand it to him if he stays there long enough. He might still be right.
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