Premier League CEO Richard Scudamore To Receive $8.6M Bonus

Premier League CEO Richard Scudamore "is in line to receive" a £6M ($8.6M) bonus for his TV rights work, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. The league’s audit and remuneration group, headed by Chelsea Chair Bruce Buck, will be discussing Scudamore’s reward now that the final total of £8.3B ($11.9B) from home and overseas contracts has been agreed. His bonus "will be spread over the three years of the latest deal, which starts next season." Scudamore has received a 50% rise in his bonus after each of the three-year rights cycles since being paid £2M in '07. The figure rose to £3M in '10 and £4.5M in '13. There is "no fixed matrix for working out the TV bonus" but Buck, Stoke’s Peter Coates, Sunderland’s Ellis Short and Blackburn’s John Williams are left to "make their own judgment" (DAILY MAIL, 2/18).