Sky Sports activities AXE half of their soccer reporting workforce in brutal cost-cutting transfer

Sky Sports activities have axed half of their soccer reporting workforce in a brutal cost-cutting train which may additionally see the exit of veteran interviewer Geoff Shreeves.

Mail Sport has discovered that Shreeves has been requested to take a major pay-cut if he desires to increase his keep on the broadcaster he first joined when the Premier League began in 1992.

Shreeves is contemplating his choices, as with 31 years of employment at Sky he can be entitled to a big redundancy bundle ought to he select to depart and should entice gives elsewhere.

The remainder of Sky’s selections have been made after a session over redundancies in April, with six of their 13-strong workforce of soccer reporters being lower, though some selected to go voluntarily and others could also be supplied different roles. 

Skilled and well-respected journalists together with Man Havord, Dickie Davis, Bianca Westwood, Greg Whelan, Lynsey Hooper and Jaydee Dyer is not going to be persevering with of their present roles. 

Geoff Shreeves has been requested to take a major pay-cut to be able to stay at Sky Sports activities 

Each Lynsey Hooper (left) and Bianca Westwood (proper) had been lower from Sky Sports activities’ line-up

Emma Saunders seems to be the one feminine reporter to outlive the cull, together with David Craig, Patrick Davidson, Jonathan Oakes, Johnny Phillips and Luke Shanley.

Sky’s determination to take away half of their soccer reporting workforce will elevate additional questions over the way forward for their flagship outcomes programme Soccer Saturday, which is at the moment and not using a presenter after Jeff Stelling confirmed he was leaving on the finish of the season. Sky declined to remark.

Sheffield United supervisor Paul Heckingbottom has been given a switch price range of simply £20million this summer season, regardless of the membership securing a £170m windfall by profitable promotion to the Premier League.

With the proposed takeover from Nigerian businessman Dozy Mmobuosi stalling and a suggestion from an American consortium collapsing, proprietor Prince Abdullah is planning to proceed operating United on a shoe-string price range, whereas banking nearly all of the Premier League’s tv revenue.

Having gained promotion regardless of working beneath a switch embargo, Heckingbottom is resigned to working with restricted funds and his instant precedence is to re-sign out-of-contract gamers akin to John Fleck, Jack Robinson and Ben Osborn.

David Craig (left) and Emma Saunders (proper) had been two of the few experiences to outlive the lower

Richard Keys and Andy Grey have signed new contracts to proceed presenting Premier League protection for BeIN Sports activities in Qatar after their earlier offers expired on the finish of the season.

The pair have spent a decade because the faces of BeIN’s English-language protection within the Center East and North Africa. They returned to tv after a two-year spell at talkSPORT, who signed them after they had been sacked by Sky Sports activities for a sequence of sexist remarks.

Keys and Grey’s new contracts are understood to be one-year rolling offers, giving each events flexibility.

Leeds vice-chairman Paraag Marathe has wasted no time in taking a extra hands-on strategy at Elland Highway because the membership confirmed they’d agreed the phrases of a full sale to 49ers Enterprises final Friday.

The American is known to have lined up interviews with a number of potential new managers for subsequent week, together with former Norwich boss Daniel Farke and West Bromwich supervisor Carlos Corberan.

He has additionally referred to as a number of senior Leeds gamers to reassure them that they’ve massive plans for the membership, regardless of relegation again to the Championship.