The appointment of the inaugural president of the new English football watchdog was launched in a new uncertainty after the officials of Whitehall resumed contact with candidates who have not reached a final list.
Sky News learned that the favorite candidate to chair the independent football (IFR) regulator is now “unlikely” to be drawn from a group of three contenders interviewed months ago.
The research process was not officially reopened and the initiates said that the position of £ 130,000 per year should be rearted.
However, they recognized that a limited list including the former director general of the Aston Villa football club, Christian Purslow, would probably not produce the chosen candidate.
News Revealed in recent weeks That the other contenders were Sanjay Bhandari, who chairs the anti-racism charitable in football, and Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, who presided over the new parliamentary guardian established after the deputy’s expenditure scandal.
The delay in the appointment of the IFR inaugural chair will not do much to alleviate recent speculation according to which Sir Keir Starmer wants to reduce the powers of the football regulator in the middle of a broader repression on the British economic female dogs.
The 10 Downing Street and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have sought to reject speculation, the initiates insisting that IFR will be established as initially envisaged.
The creation of the regulator, which will be based in Manchester, is one of the main elements of the legislation progressing in Parliament.
The draft law on football governance has just finished its trip through the Lord Chamber and will be presented in the municipalities shortly, according to a spokesperson for the DCMS.
The creation of the regulator, designed by the previous conservative government following the fury of the European Super League project, sparked a deep disturbance in English football.
Steve Parish, president of the Premier League Side Crystal Palace, told a recent conference of the sport industry that the guard dog “wanted to interfere in all the things in which we do not need them to interfere and help anything we really need help”.
“We have a problem that we are constantly told that we are not a business and (that) we are part of the fabric of the communities,” he said.
“At the same time, we are … treated in the nth degree as a business.”
The interviews for the president of the football regulator took place in November, with a previous recruitment process reduced by the call for general elections from last year.
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Lisa Nandy, the secretary of culture, will rely on the appointment of a favorite candidate, the chosen person should face a pre-evaluation audience before the limited committee of culture, media and sport.
It is part of a process that represents the most fundamental upheaval in monitoring English football in the history of the game.
The establishment of the body is delivered with the upper level of the professional game seized by the civil war, with Manchester City, made up of Abu Dhabi at the center of a certain number of legal affairs on its financial relations.
The government has abandoned a previous stipulation that the regulator should take into account the foreign and commercial British policy when determining the relevance of a new club owner.
“We are not starting speculation,” said the DCMS when he questioned the process to recruit a chair of the football watchdog.
“No appointment has been made and the recruitment process for the President (IFR) is underway.”