Gary Lineker offers to take huge BBC pay cut to stay as Match of the Day presenter

Gary Lineker has offered to instrumentality a immense wage chopped with the BBC successful bid to enactment connected arsenic Match of the Day presenter.

The 63-year-old, who has hosted the BBC’s flagship Saturday nighttime shot amusement since 1999, sees his existent declaration with the broadcaster expire astatine the extremity of the season.

Lineker is the BBC’s highest-earning presenter with a woody worthy £1.35 million.

According to The Sun, Lineker is present successful talks to widen his stint with the BBC and has volunteered to instrumentality a £350,000 chopped connected his existent contract.

The study adds that Lineker volition clasp further talks with BBC executives successful October implicit a caller woody that volition past astatine slightest a further 2 years.

A root told the newspaper: ‘Gary is hugely fashionable with some fans and players alike. The consciousness is that, with truthful overmuch uncertainty and ungraded astatine the BBC, close present viewers are crying retired for a harmless brace of hands.

‘Gary adores the BBC, and loves his job, and recognises what an honour it is to big television’s flagship shot show, arsenic good arsenic planetary games.

‘Gary has agelong maintained that the BBC provides fantabulous worth for wealth – and has rather virtually enactment his wealth wherever his rima is, and offered to instrumentality a important wage cut.’

Jermaine Jenas had been 1 of the frontrunners to win Lineker arsenic Match of the Day host earlier the erstwhile Tottenham, Newcastle United and England midfielder was sacked by the BBC past period for sending unsolicited texts to 2 pistillate unit members.

Jenas, who is simply a father-of-four, has said helium felt ‘ashamed’ of his actions and that helium was ‘deeply sorry’ for what happened successful the lead-up to his sacking.

BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Mark Chapman, who besides fronts Match of the Day 2 connected Sunday evening, has besides emerged arsenic a beardown campaigner to regenerate Lineker.

Chapman besides presents the BBC’s caller Champions League highlights show, which began this week.

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