Revealed: Tottenham eclipse Man United with £7m outlay as record pay-out confirmed
No team paid their board of directors more than Tottenham in 2021-22, Football Insider analysis shows.
Spurs shelled out a Premier League record £6.8million last season, with highest-paid director Daniel Levy accounting for almost half of that figure.
The chairman and co-owner was the league’s best-paid executive on an individual basis, edging out Man United’s Richard Arnold.
Arnold trousered £1.9m but spent half the year as managing director before his promotion to vice-chairman in February 2022.
United paid their board £6m in total, the second most in the top flight – Arsenal are in third place with a bill of £4.3m and Liverpool in fourth with £3.4m.
At the other end of the spectrum are Fulham, Wolves, Leicester City and Newcastle United, all of whom paid directors £1m or less.
Man City did not pay any directors in 2021-22, while their CEO Ferran Soriano is not listed as a director for the club.
Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Leeds United meanwhile are yet to release their accounts for the financial year.
Spurs have a history of paying their key management personnel well, but the near-£3m pay rise they received in 2021-22 was dramatic even by their standards.
They currently have three active directors besides Levy – finance director Matthew Collecott, executive director Donna-Maria Cullen and non-executive director Jonathan Turner.
Chief commercial officer Todd Kline and director of football administration and governance Rebecca Caplehorn are also key figures but do not have a seat on the board.
Managing director Fabio Paratici is in that bracket too, but he has stepped away from his role after he was handed a worldwide ban by FIFA for his alleged role in the accounting scandal at his old club Juventus.
In other news, major update on Tottenham bid to sign Dean Henderson