
22 March 2021 - 1:50 PM
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Alamy | Shaun Harvey joined the EFL as its first CEO in 2013 following nine years in the same position at Leeds United. He left the Football League in 2019.
Interview: Former Football League CEO on the game’s “impossible job”
- Shaun Harvey who ran the EFL for six years says the board’s policy was a “rescue culture” with success measured in terms of keeping its 72 clubs alive for the whole season.
- Harvey left the EFL in 2019 amidst heavy criticism about governance and commercial deals. Harvey is saying that no club entered administration until the final days of his reign.
- Yorkshireman has been advising Wrexham’s new owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, on their takeover and operations.
- Harvey says that salary caps “anomalous” with a competitive industry, but says Wrexham won’t be spending their way into the league.
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