Lisa Nandy, the secretary of culture, must sign the appointment of a president of the new English football referee in a few days.
Sky News has learned that David Kogan, a veteran from the media industry who has helped negotiate a series of television rights in sport in recent decades, must be officially approved as president of the independent football regulator (IFR).
Whitehall’s sources said that an ad could be made by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) this week, although they added that the calendar could slide a few days.
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Once approved, Mr. Kogan is expected to face a committee of deputies for a confirmation audience at the beginning of next month, the sources added.
Sky News revealed last weekend that Mr. Kogan had emerged as the frontrunner For the position, after a previous preselection of three candidates was transmitted.
The new regulator has the support of the company Sir Keir StarmerAnd is a key element of the legislation that currently crosses parliament.
Mr. Kogan, whose conference roles included an administration in State 4 chain, was initially approached during a previous recruitment process launched under the last conservative administration.
He has links to work, having in the past giving money to a number of individual parliamentary candidates, presiding over Worklist, the independent information site and writing two books on the party.
Mr. Kogan had a vast experience at the top of English soccerHaving advised customers, including the Premier League, the English football league, the Scottish Premier League and UEFA on television rights contracts.
Last year, he acted as the main negotiator of the Super League and the Women’s Championship on their last five -year broadcasting agreements with Sky – the immediate parent company of Sky News – and the BBC.
Its current roles include advising CNN management chiefs, the American Broadcast News Network and the New York Times on discussions with digital platforms on the growing influence of artificial intelligence on their industries.
In recent months, Sky News has disclosed the identity of the preselected candidates For this role, with the former Aston Villa FC and the Director General of Liverpool FC, Christian Purslow, one of the three candidates who have reached a group of supposedly final suitors.
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy. File peak: Reuters
The others were Sanjay Bhandari, who presides over the anti-racism football charity, and Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, who presided over the new parliamentary guardian established after the deputies’ spending scandal.
The apparent break in the appointment of the president of £ 130,000 per year of IFR threatened to rekindle speculation according to which Sir Keir sought to decrease his powers in the midst of a broader repression on economic surveillance dogs of Great Britain.
The 10 Downing Street and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have sought to reject these suggestions, with initiates insisting that IFR will be largely established as initially envisaged.
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The creation of IFR, which will be based ManchesterThis is one of the main elements of the legislation currently progressing in Parliament, with an expected royal consent before summer recess.
The football governance bill has completed its trip through the Chamber of Lords and will be introduced in the municipalities shortly, according to the DCMS.
The regulator was designed by the Conservatives following the fury on the failure of the European Super League project, but sparked a deep disturbance in parts of English football.
Its creation is part of a process that represents the most fundamental upheaval in the surveillance of 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 with the Premier League for its financial transactions.
The Premier League also wishes to agree on a financial redistribution agreement long late with the EFL before the official launch of the regulator, although there has been little progress towards this in the past year.
“We are not starting speculation,” said a DCMS spokesman for the imminent announcement of Mr. Kogan as president of IFR.
“No appointment has been made and the recruitment process for the President (IFR) is underway.”