Alan Shearer is celebrating a good-looking Christmas bonus after topping up his six-figure BBC wage by moonlighting for Amazon Prime.
The previous England striker earns a staggering £455,000 – due to the licence-fee payer – as a pundit on the Company’s weekly programme Match Of The Day in addition to one-off tournaments.
He appeared on the streaming big twice final week. He supplied Amazon viewers his experience throughout and after Manchester United’s win over Nottingham Forest, in addition to the Premier League conflict between Leeds United and Manchester Metropolis the next day.
Whereas it’s unknown what Shearer, 52, is paid by Amazon Prime, the subscription service has an enormous funds for its sports activities protection.
Shearer (pictured) earns a staggering £455,000 as a pundit on Match Of The Day in addition to one-off tournaments
Shearer supplied Amazon viewers his experience in the course of the Premier League conflict between Leeds United and Manchester Metropolis on December 28, 2022
The ex-Newcastle United star’s BBC pay, which makes him the third highest-paid star on the Company, has beforehand been described as ‘obscene’.
One soccer insider advised The Mail on Sunday: ‘It’s good work if you will get it – a little bit of a Christmas bonus so as to add to his stratospheric wage on the BBC. To suppose that Alan is the third-highest-paid star by the BBC is difficult sufficient to consider, however then he’s allowed to go off and do precisely the identical job for a rival channel and receives a commission much more.’
Gabby Logan, who can also be a BBC worker however earns about half as a lot as Shearer, hosted the Leeds v Manchester Metropolis match.
In recent times, the BBC has allowed its expertise to work throughout completely different tv networks in order that it doesn’t lose them, regardless of their excessive wages.
Shearer’s Match Of The Day co-star Gary Lineker additionally took benefit of the lapse in laws in 2015 when he joined BT Sport to anchor its Champions League protection, regardless that he’s the BBC’s highest-paid star. He give up that position final yr and now presents on Spain’s La Liga TV.
Whereas it’s unknown what Shearer, 52, is paid by Amazon Prime, the subscription service has an enormous funds for its sports activities protection
Lineker, 62, was paid £1.35 million in 2021 for internet hosting Match Of The Day and protection of Euro 2020.
The BBC started revealing its extremely paid employees’s salaries in 2017, and talking of the choice, Lineker stated on the time: ‘I blame my agent and the opposite TV channels that pay extra. Now the place did I put my tin helmet?’
Different footballing stars to look on Amazon Prime embody Ally McCoist, Thierry Henry, Eni Aluko and Michael Owen.
