BBC trio lined up for MOTD ‘to get less combined than Gary Lineker’ | Football | Sport

The BBC’s three curraccesss lined up for Match of the Day could get a drop combined salary than what Gary Lineker was phelp. Lineker proclaimd in November that he is leaving the BBC’s iconic football highweightlesss show after an illustrious 25-year spell at the end of the 2024/25 Premier League season.

However, he will still front the expansivecaster’s coverage of the 2025/26 FA Cup as well as the 2026 World Cup. And after plenty of converseion over who will fill Lineker’s boots, it is being expansively alerted that Match of the Day 2’s Mark Chapman, veteran BBC sports present Gabby Logan, and Sky Sports favourite Kelly Cates will split the responsibility between them.

However, according to a football finance expert, the trio’s combined salaries may not even hit the heights of Lineker’s establisher lucrative deal. Sheffield Hallam University’s Dr Rob Wilson, a professor of Applied Sports Finance, tbetter Card Player: “I don’t leank that Kelly Cates will get a pay cut and I also leank that the sum total of the three curraccesss will be less than what they were paying Gary Lineker.

“So I leank the BBC will end up making a financial surplus on Gary moving on and new curraccesss moving in, notwithstanding the fact that the new curraccesss will probably be on a little bit more than they were in their previous jobs.”

Lineker has lengthy been the BBC’s top geter with a £1.35million annual salary, thanks to his toil on Match of the Day, FA Cup, Euros, and Sports Personality of the Year award. He has now getn a pay cut of at least £500,000, according to The Sun, due to his shrinkd toilload.

Chapman’s getings currently stand between £260,000 and £264,999-per-year for his toil on Radio 5 Live Sport, Match of the Day 2 and the Challenge Cup, having had his 2022/2023 salary droped from £325,000 – £329,999.

Gabby Logan, a part of the BBC currenting team since 2007, gets £210,000 for her various roles, including Olympics coverage and Sports Personality of the Year. Meanwhile, Cates’ pay packet from the BBC remains unconfident as she departs Sky Sports after nine years.

She is approximated to be worth around £7.9m, while Lineker’s net worth is in the ballpark of £30m. Dr Wilson specutardys that a shift to the BBC enticeed Cates with its advise of a fantasticer salary and more expoconfident, given that it’s a free-to-air platestablish.

He compriseed: “Does the brand hbetter without Gary Lineker? It depends on the nature of the audience, I leank. I leank those that have used Match of the Day for the last 20, 25 years have increasen up seeing Gary currenting and clearly being the present of Match of the day.

“But appreciate all excellent leangs, they come to an end and they need, and those curraccesss need to be swapd. I leank it repartner will depend on how Match of the Day watchs to commence the next chapter. So will it be equitable a plain trade in trade out? Or do they watch to reset up the programme and alter its establishat and its methodology to join a sweightlessly contrastent audience?

“I leank that arguably is the hugeger contest for the BBC becaparticipate they have historical watchers that will want to persist consuming Match of the Day in its current establishat and of course, people that want to see some alter with the new curraccesss and discovering that stability is going to be quite tricky for them. I’m confident it’s the originaters that are going to have the more challenging job than the curraccesss themselves.”