"The compensation sub-committee conducted an independent executive benchmarking analysis in 2014 to serve as a basis for evaluating the salary level of Fifa's senior management," Fifa said, adding that the compensation policy is now being reviewed.
"Neither the Secretary General Jérôme Valcke nor any other member of FIFA's senior management were involved in the initiation, approval and implementation of the above project".
"Neither the Secretary General Jerome Valcke nor any other member of Fifa's senior management were involved in the initiation, approval and implementation of the above project".
He graduated from the University of Oklahoma and received a FIFA international master in management, law and humanities of sport from the International Centre for Sport Studies based in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Blatter, who as president has a statutory responsibility for the line management of Fifa's secretary general, refused to express any view about Valcke's explanation.
As crisis management assignments go, the Fifa car crash – with its multiple narratives, double-dealing and no clear end in sight – must be among the more challenging.
The simple answer to all my moaning, of course, is that there's a difference between 'games' and 'sims' and Football Manager, and now Fifa, are the latter (ironically, Fifa contains the closest thing out at the moment to a management 'game' in its watered-down management mode).
Fifa insisted Valcke nor any other senior management figure was involved.
Nine Fifa officials and four executives of sports management companies were arrested, according to the US Department of Justice.
He argues, however, that the contracts the club signed under the previous management were in breach of the Fifa regulations, which prohibit third parties from buying "the ability to influence" clubs' team selections or transfers.
