Gervais Martel s'explique pour France Football.
 
" 2004-2005 ne sera pas une bonne année, car nous allons être négatif. C'est mon plus mauvais résultat depuis 16 ans de présidence, mais je l'assume. Nous avons toutefois des fonds propres qui nous permettent d'assumer nos prises de risques. Et puis, il faut tenir compte de la disparition de de la subvention de 700 000€ de la région. Je tiens à préciser que nous avons de lourdes charges de fonctionnement comme la Gaillette (5,5M€) et le stade Bollaert (2M€) et cela nous pénalise par rapport à d'autres. Mais nous l'avons voulu ainsi. Notre budget n'est donc pas de 46M€ mais de 39M€, ce qui n'en fait pas le troisième de France comme je l'entends souvent ".

The Footie index: How club bosses netted premier league salaries
By David Conn
Independent 03 May 2003  
Even by the standards of boardroom largesse that allows company directors to be rewarded with vast salary packages regardless of their performance, there is one industry that stands out for its blind munificence.
Most of the companies in this business made a loss last year, but that did not appear to impinge on the way their bosses were rewarded. The most poorly paid walked away with well over £200,000, a package which appears positively parsimonious next to the £700,000 granted to the man who runs the whole unprofitable show. The rest had to survive on something in between.
Welcome to the beautiful game of football, beautiful at least for the executives of the Premier League and the clubs which play in it.
A survey by The Independent of the latest published accounts of England's top clubs and governing bodies shows the 20 highest-paid executives on packages ranging from £215,671 for the Southampton director Andrew Cowen, to the extraordinary £717,468 paid to Richard Scudamore, the Premier League's chief executive. All the directors in the top 10 were paid more than £400,000.
Comparisons with companies of similar size show that football has a culture of extravagance in paying its directors. The £625,000 paid to Peter Kenyon, Manchester United's chief executive, was more than three times the average chief executive's salary at companies with a similar turnover to United, £146m. The basic salaries of Mr Scudamore, Mr Kenyon and most other directors in the top 15 equate to those of chief executives of huge industrial concerns turning over £1.25bn, including the likes of Honda UK, Samsung and Siemens.
Peter Ridsdale's resignation from the Leeds United board last week due to the club's mounting financial crisis was unhappily timed, coinciding with Government and Trades Union Congress campaigns against "rewarding failure", where executives leave their companies stricken but with massive pay-offs.
Leeds have confirmed that Mr Ridsdale and the outgoing finance director, Stephen Harrison, are both being paid a full year's salary, £383,000 and £224,000 respectively, although they left the club laden with debts, battling to avoid both relegation and insolvency.
The pay packages were condemned by the joint chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, Ian Todd, who said: "These packages are staggering. They vastly exceed what most people earn for doing jobs far more complicated and demanding than running a football club, which many people would love to do.
"With the game and clubs in crisis, we question the competence of those in charge and how they can justify these excessive payments."
Several directors are paid huge bonuses. Mr Scudamore was given a £325,000 bonus for negotiating – with the help of consultants – the Premiership's £1.6bn, 2001-04 television deal. This followed a £320,000 bonus in 2001, and he is receiving a similar sum this year, bringing his total bonus close to £1m. The Premier League would not confirm whether he is on a similar personal incentive for the next television deal.
Mr Kenyon's basic £363,000 was swollen by bonuses, in cash and shares, of £182,000, which, with pension contributions and other benefits, made his total package £625,000. United's turnover and profits rose in 2002, largely as a result of improved television revenue from the Premiership's new deal, and reaching the UEFA Champions League semi-final. The share price, however, fell.
David Gill, the managing director, was paid £487,000 while Nick Humby joined as United's new finance director on £173,000. Like most of football's top directors, all are on 12-month rolling contracts, which means, like Mr Ridsdale, they are guaranteed a year's salary when they depart.
Martin Edwards, the former chief executive who has made well over £100m from selling his shares in United, earned £149,000 as a non-executive part-time director, and he too has a 12-month rolling contract.
A survey by the Chartered Management Institute, in association with a research company Remuneration Economics, found that the average pay of chief executives at companies with a similar turnover to United was £173,009, less than one-third of Mr Kenyon's package. In the real world, he would have to be running a £1.25bn company just to make his basic.
In 2001, Leeds turned over £86.2m, lost £7m and nearly doubled the club's debt to £39m. Nevertheless, because Leeds made an operating profit, its remuneration committee, which comprised Richard North and the renowned non-executive director Allan Leighton, awarded Mr Ridsdale a £270,000 bonus, making his total package a round £600,000.
Last year, the club took on a £60m bond, secured on future gate receipts, which is now crippling it, reduced turnover to £81.5m, lost £34m and nearly doubled the debt again, to £78m. No bonus for Mr Ridsdale, because the club made an £8m operating loss, but he still enjoyed a 15 per cent increase in his basic salary to £370,000.
The Leeds spokesman confirmed that Mr Ridsdale will be paid his whole package, £383,000, for the next 12 months, although he has left a mountain of trouble for the new chairman, Professor John McKenzie, to sort out.
Brendan Barber, the TUC's general secretary-elect, condemned the pay packages: "Just as we expect heads of corporate Britain not to indulge in excessive pay and bonuses, so we expect moderation from the heads of football. But too often the directors of failing firms and struggling clubs continue to profit when restraint would be more appropriate."
No such restraint was noticeable at one of the TUC's affiliated unions, the Professional Footballers Association, which paid its chief executive, Gordon Taylor, a staggering £623,227. The TUC refused to discuss his package and Mr Taylor was unavailable, although he usually points out that his pay is voted on by his members, the players.
Most observers say the huge money paid to players – £2m to £3m a year in the Premiership, far more than directors – has infected football generally and fuelled the culture of boardroom excess.
There were, however, some examples of moderation, notably Charlton Athletic, a club widely admired as a model, for retaining community values while establishing itself in the Premier League.
Charlton's turnover increased last year but the club lost £10m. The chairman, Richard Murray, actually took a pay cut, from £54,000 to £50,000, a figure at least within the comprehension of ordinary mortals, the supporters, who in effect pay the wages of all football directors.
As ever, nobody involved in running football was prepared to criticise the excesses. There is no point turning to the Football Association; the once amateur governing body last year paid its now-departed chief executive, Adam Crozier, £567,000 – a 35 per cent increase on the previous year. So well did they think he was performing that just a few months later the same FA board, including Mr Ridsdale, forced him to resign.

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