Reading the article, the board had recommended a scheme where Ashley would have received £26,000,000 in bonuses for the year.

They haven't revealed how much he'll be getting in the new scheme.

I'd be saving the claps TBH. Mike Ashley has got so much money he doesn't need your applause as well. Especially when he was being a greedy **** in the first place but got slapped down.

Why?
Are you rearmed with a load more BS Bombs?

Has he got so much money that if he wanted he could buy a s***e premiership football club?

You offered a round of applause to Mike Ashley and the Sports Direct board after you read the article about them giving their staff bonuses of £43,000.

You missed out the bit about Mike Ashley and the board initially awarding Ashley £26m in bonuses.

Given the fact Ashley was taking £26m off the table, and the fact he's already a billionaire anyway, and the share price will have risen making him even richer, does he really need you to laud him to people?

You are a good example of the BS bomb culture. People read about the 13,000 deaths that have been caused in the NHS and are outraged. They don't bother to actually read the articles and see that the figures are wrong and it's a pathetic political attack. The headlines matter, the facts behind the headlines don't. Control the headline and soundbite and the facts don't matter.

He's already got a pretty good PL club. Why would he want a s***e one?

It's irrelevant to me whether Ashley is a billionaire or not.
If I want to applaud his company paying all his full time employees 43 grand, many of whom are on less than 20k per annum, I'll carry right on thanks.
Irregardless of your BS Bomb utter bullsh!t!

Obviously.



And that's the kind of stupidity which means that people can be hoodwinked into receiving less money than they probably should be.

If you're a long term employee and want to stay at SD for life, would you prefer a one off payment of 43k and stay on 20k a year, or would you prefer your wage to be raised to 30 and given fair raises for the rest of your employment based on good work?

If you're an employee and receive the 43k and it ends up damaging the company is it a good thing that the company shelled out those bonuses?



Maybe you understand my points and are completely correct to dismiss it.

Or maybe you just don't have a clue and are just trying to mock me to hide that fact.

It's not for me to judge.

No my point is that Sports Direct are not a listed plc, they have no instutional shareholders demanding ever greater returns on investment, so that the same shareholders can trouser ever greater dividends. Rather than Ashley hand millions over to the taxman (there's no doubt about tax-efficiency driving the scheme), he's sharing it among his staff. Of course it may mean that by the time the shares can be cashed in, they're worth two balloons and a goldfish, but that's a chance they'd take.

Between Tesco and Sports Direct, my opinion is SD is the more acceptable face of capitalism

I'm pretty sure I'd prefer a one off payment than not one at all, what about you?
The rest of your guff is hypothetical BS like most of the rhubarb you type.