Gary Lineker strives for a new BBC boss who ‘has no TV experience’ and warns him not to mess with the game of the day before his last episode as a host after he has been pushed aside,
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Gary Lineker Has the BBC In order not to bring in radical new changes when he leaves the game of the day at the end of the season in a new interview – which also saw the first England International focuses a sharp excavation at the sports director of the broadcaster.
The old presenter of the iconic highlights will leave the role after 26 years, but will remain part of the stables of the broadcaster, for their coverage of the World Cup 2026 before retirement.
Instead, the BBC has chosen not to replace it with a single figure, because he replaced the former host des Lynam, but – As exclusively revealed by Mail Sport – with a trio of co-hosts.
Gabby LoganMark Chapman, and Kelly Cates the team leading the day reporting will set in A break of tradition.
But for the change of the guard, Lineker has a shot focused on the ‘new regime’ in the broadcaster and warned the BBC hierarchy for the danger of making too many changes.
The 64-year-old offered his opinion about BBC’s director of Sport Alex Kay-Jelski, who took the helm last year and claimed that there has been a dramatic change at the top since his appointment.

Gary Lineker has offered his BBC bosses a warning about the new format of the competition of the day

Lineker excluded the new BBC director of Sport Alex Kay-Jelski for having ‘no TV experience’

Lineker is being replaced by a presenting team in Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan
‘I think (a regime change) is (happened), and that is what I played on (in an earlier interview), Lineker told Telegraph.
“He has his reasons, he wants to change the match of the day a bit. In the end I don’t think they will do that, because I don’t see how you move a highlights of highlights by dealing with highlights.
“I think he wants more journalists – he came from that background. He has no television experience. ‘
When he asked if he would like to see the program that the program is holding the same easy report that he has with his long-term co-ponds such as Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, Lineker added that the channel would be ‘crazy’ to mess with a winning formula.
‘I suspect, despite all the thoughts of change, that the show will almost stay as it is. That is my gut feeling, “Lineker continued.
‘I think they would be angry, absolutely angry, to mess with the competition of the day. It took years and years to get the right balance.
“I would be nervous if they pave too much with it. It is that old saying: “If it is not broken, don’t repair it”. ‘
Lineker has previously supported the BBC’s decision to replace him with the team of Cates, Logan and Chapman, but emphasized that the track is a ‘massive obligation’.
“Those three all have families, and if you say someone is going to do it for the next ten or 20 years, then your weekends will disappear,” Lineker said last month.

Lineker has maintained a certain style in the iconic role he has held over the past 26 years
“That’s it might, I don’t know. I have not been involved in that.
‘I consider it a compliment that they have mentioned three, but I suspect that this is not due.
“I haven’t seen them yet to talk to them, but I’ll do it. It will be fine and they will do great. I have known them for years, they are top presenters. ‘
While counting down to the end of the season and his last episode for the day of the day, Lineker last weekend was in hot water for sharing a pro-palestine clip With an emoji of a rat – an anti -Jewish blot.
This led to the condemnation of Jewish groups and evokes that he was settled by the broadcaster.
Lineker, 64, later removed the images of his ‘stories’ reel on the social media site and apologized that he would “never deliberately share something anti -Semitic.
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