Karren Brady was paid an extra £438,000 by West Ham for consultancy work last season for negotiating the part-sale of the club to an American billionaire, according to the Times.
The newspaper, citing information gleaned from the club’s annual accounts, report Baroness Brady was paid via her company BKB Media Ltd for work in connection with the sale of ten per cent of the Premier League outfit to tycoon Albert “Tripp” Smith.
The Times report Brady’s consultancy work was “outside the scope of her role as vice-chairman” and came on top of her £898,000 West Ham salary.
OPINION
Nice work if you can get it. Brady is already extraordinarily rich, partly from her executive role at West Ham, but also her many lucrative sidelines, including as a mentor on The Apprentice programme, a presenter on the ITV Give It a Year show, a best-selling author and global motivational speaker. It unsurprisingly irks West Ham fans that the most famous woman in football does not even name the club on her Twitter biography despite raking in nearly £1.3million from the club last year. She is unbelievably gifted at public relations and convincing oratory, but that suggests the club is way down her list of priorities. West Ham’s owners have complete faith in Lady Brady, nonetheless, and are happy for her to juggle so many jobs and navigate so many lucrative financial streams. The great shock is how on earth she found the time to negotiate the part-sale of the club to billionaire Smith.