By Andrew Warshaw
June 27 – The issue of Gianni Infantino’s salary and when he might put pen to paper is back in the spotlight after another independent member of the compensation committee that set the FIFA president’s pay resigned.
Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini gave no reason for his departure but much conjecture will focus on the controversial new regulation passed at May’s FIFA Congress allowing FIFA’s new ruling Council to hire and fire members of independent bodies.
Pedrazzini’s exit follows that of committee chairman and audit and compliance chief Domenico Scala who quit both posts last month over the highly contentious rule change.
The compensation committee sets the salary for the FIFA president, members of its supervisory Council and FIFA’s secretary general, according to new statutes agreed in April.
Pedrazzini’s departure leaves a void within with the three-member compensation committee and raises the question of whether whoever replaces both him and Scala will be more favourable to Infantino’s salary demands even though Infantino, originally reported to have described the $2 million on offer as a “insult”, has since backtracked and now says his package would not exceed that sum.
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