Fair. I like him but there’s a decent circuit if pundits to go from.
End of an era!
MOTD does have some what of a grip on me in that I will still watch it despite being able to watch all the highlights hours earlier on Youtube these days.
He’s a very good presenter but it will be nice to have a different style of presenter on the show. Im sure he will be focussing on his podcasting business.
Less Gary Lineker on the screen is objectively a good thing. He can shitpost without fear from now on.
Hot take: He’s actually a good presenter, arguably worth the money in terms of the BBC looking decent at football content and retaining viewers, and MotD will be worse for it.
I’ll miss him. He’s been great.
I would never have imagined that he would be so comfortable presenting the show when I watched his first nervous appearances as a pundit in the Des Lynam era.
I’m so pleased Jenas is no longer around to replace him.
Lovely drop that
long over due. he was good value for a while but the last 10 years he’s been overpaid and boring.
I wonder who’ll replace him as Jermaine Jenas, rightly, won’t be stepping into that spot any time soon
Probably just not worth it for him anymore. He’s got plenty of money, and doesn’t want to be dealing with all the ‘BBC Star Criticises Orphan Crushing Machine’ press stories.
Whatever people think of him as a person, he’s genuinely a really good football presenter and MOTD will be worse for him leaving.
I’m sure other broadcasters are going to try and snap him up.
I hope they give it to a young talented sports journalist, or just ‘promote’ Mark Chapman from MOTD2 instead of it being a gig for an overpaid old boy who used to play.
I loved Motd 10-15 years ago, but in an era in which all of the PL highlights are up on Youtube and the Sky Sports website shortly after the games end, I’m baffled by the idea of a multi-million pound contract to present a highlights show being perceived to represent value to the licence payer.
Will Shearer go along with him? Those two are some of the better pundits out there, otherwise we are left with the genius insight from the likes of Jermaine Jenas in their place. Linekar might be expensive but he is worth it for both his insight and personality.
Talking about politics is a sure fire way to lose fans.
He was starting to be known for more than his job.
The BBC shouldn’t be paying out such big contracts. Let the other commercial networks have him.
I’m sure he’ll land on his feet.
Good presenter but not worth the money. Really hope Mark Chapman gets the gig and the BBC don’t go for an underqualified diversity hire.
He is the co-founder of Goalhanger Podcasts, which producers popular shows like The Rest is Football, The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics and The Rest Is Entertainment.
He is most likely making substantially more money from those ventures than he does as a pundit, so why bother having to be in London once a week, at the mercy of the BBC who seems to be attracting shitty headline after shitty headline.
Either that or he absolutely refuses to be relocated to the BBC move to Digbeth Birmingham, and is willing to suffer a £1.2m loss. Which I think we can all understand perfectly well.
Good riddance.
Used it as a platform for his political views, despite having no clue about most of it.
The only shame is that the BBC didn’t toss him off when he started initially abusing it.
A good example of someone who used support from the working class throughout his career to get this platform, and then uses it to support causes that are blatantly against their interests.
(a government wants to do something against illegal immigration? [That makes it a Nazi government of course](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64899472).)
So long, crisp guy. You may be missed by those that can’t see through the antics of hypocritical celebrities that hate their actual audience and virtue signal all day, but not by anyone that does see and has seen through it.
He doesn’t need the money or the hassle anymore. What was a plum gig has turned into people getting into his political beliefs which he doesn’t air during his job. He’ll live off the podcast empire he’s got into and fair play to him for doing so.
All eras come to an end. Growing up, he was synonymous with football on the TV for me. Really glad he’s also a decent bloke as well
Great talent. So good that a lot of my younger cousins and nephews didn’t know he was an excellent striker too.
It’s also good that he’s leaving in a planned way and not abruptly because his of his brother.
He’s very good at his job, won’t be easy to replace. I’m glad there is now no chance he’ll be replaced by Jenas.
I think they should have had Lineker as a pundit rather than a presenter. He’s wasted in this capacity. ‘The rest is football’ pod with him, Shearer and Micah Richards is gold for this reason. He has hot takes and is incredibly interesting having played at the highest level of club and country.
Lineker leaving is a shame because he’s always been a professional host. MOTD as a show though has in my opinion become a bit outdated and stale in its approach. It could do with modernisation with less time spent on presenters and pundits and more time on action.
He’s 65 in two years when it looks like he’ll be leaving so no great surprise really.
Can we PLEASE just pay a normal fan a normal amount of money and give a non celebrity the chance of a dream job???
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Fair. I like him but there’s a decent circuit if pundits to go from.
End of an era!
MOTD does have some what of a grip on me in that I will still watch it despite being able to watch all the highlights hours earlier on Youtube these days.
He’s a very good presenter but it will be nice to have a different style of presenter on the show. Im sure he will be focussing on his podcasting business.
Less Gary Lineker on the screen is objectively a good thing. He can shitpost without fear from now on.
Hot take: He’s actually a good presenter, arguably worth the money in terms of the BBC looking decent at football content and retaining viewers, and MotD will be worse for it.
I’ll miss him. He’s been great.
I would never have imagined that he would be so comfortable presenting the show when I watched his first nervous appearances as a pundit in the Des Lynam era.
I’m so pleased Jenas is no longer around to replace him.
Lovely drop that
long over due. he was good value for a while but the last 10 years he’s been overpaid and boring.
I wonder who’ll replace him as Jermaine Jenas, rightly, won’t be stepping into that spot any time soon
Probably just not worth it for him anymore. He’s got plenty of money, and doesn’t want to be dealing with all the ‘BBC Star Criticises Orphan Crushing Machine’ press stories.
Whatever people think of him as a person, he’s genuinely a really good football presenter and MOTD will be worse for him leaving.
I’m sure other broadcasters are going to try and snap him up.
I hope they give it to a young talented sports journalist, or just ‘promote’ Mark Chapman from MOTD2 instead of it being a gig for an overpaid old boy who used to play.
I loved Motd 10-15 years ago, but in an era in which all of the PL highlights are up on Youtube and the Sky Sports website shortly after the games end, I’m baffled by the idea of a multi-million pound contract to present a highlights show being perceived to represent value to the licence payer.
Will Shearer go along with him? Those two are some of the better pundits out there, otherwise we are left with the genius insight from the likes of Jermaine Jenas in their place. Linekar might be expensive but he is worth it for both his insight and personality.
Talking about politics is a sure fire way to lose fans.
He was starting to be known for more than his job.
The BBC shouldn’t be paying out such big contracts. Let the other commercial networks have him.
I’m sure he’ll land on his feet.
Good presenter but not worth the money. Really hope Mark Chapman gets the gig and the BBC don’t go for an underqualified diversity hire.
He is the co-founder of Goalhanger Podcasts, which producers popular shows like The Rest is Football, The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics and The Rest Is Entertainment.
He is most likely making substantially more money from those ventures than he does as a pundit, so why bother having to be in London once a week, at the mercy of the BBC who seems to be attracting shitty headline after shitty headline.
Either that or he absolutely refuses to be relocated to the BBC move to Digbeth Birmingham, and is willing to suffer a £1.2m loss. Which I think we can all understand perfectly well.
Good riddance.
Used it as a platform for his political views, despite having no clue about most of it.
The only shame is that the BBC didn’t toss him off when he started initially abusing it.
A good example of someone who used support from the working class throughout his career to get this platform, and then uses it to support causes that are blatantly against their interests.
(a government wants to do something against illegal immigration? [That makes it a Nazi government of course](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64899472).)
So long, crisp guy. You may be missed by those that can’t see through the antics of hypocritical celebrities that hate their actual audience and virtue signal all day, but not by anyone that does see and has seen through it.
He doesn’t need the money or the hassle anymore. What was a plum gig has turned into people getting into his political beliefs which he doesn’t air during his job. He’ll live off the podcast empire he’s got into and fair play to him for doing so.
All eras come to an end. Growing up, he was synonymous with football on the TV for me. Really glad he’s also a decent bloke as well
Great talent. So good that a lot of my younger cousins and nephews didn’t know he was an excellent striker too.
It’s also good that he’s leaving in a planned way and not abruptly because his of his brother.
He’s very good at his job, won’t be easy to replace. I’m glad there is now no chance he’ll be replaced by Jenas.
I think they should have had Lineker as a pundit rather than a presenter. He’s wasted in this capacity. ‘The rest is football’ pod with him, Shearer and Micah Richards is gold for this reason. He has hot takes and is incredibly interesting having played at the highest level of club and country.
Lineker leaving is a shame because he’s always been a professional host. MOTD as a show though has in my opinion become a bit outdated and stale in its approach. It could do with modernisation with less time spent on presenters and pundits and more time on action.
He’s 65 in two years when it looks like he’ll be leaving so no great surprise really.
Can we PLEASE just pay a normal fan a normal amount of money and give a non celebrity the chance of a dream job???
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