Two long-serving members of staff have quit the Team Marketing agency, TV Sports Markets understands.
Andrew Guy, Team’s director of business affairs, and Marie-Rose Schellhammer, manager of broadcast relations, will leave the agency at the end of the month.
Schellhammer has been with the company since its launch in 1992. Guy, who has a legal background, joined Team in 2005.
Team sells the global commercial rights to the Champions League and Europa League on behalf of Uefa, European football’s governing body.
The resignations come just four months after the shock departures of three of the agency’s most senior executives: Simon Thomas, the former chief executive, David Tyler, formerly managing director and general counsel, and Patrick Murphy, the former managing director sales.
Guy and Schellhammer worked closely with Thomas and Murphy on media rights sales to the Uefa competitions. Their decision to leave is thought to have been made in the immediate aftermath of the last upheaval.
Although Guy and Schellhammer were not such senior figures in the company, their departures are likely to interpreted in some quarters as signs of continuing instability at management level.
The departures of Thomas, Murphy and Tyler were thought to be linked, among other issues, to their attempts to negotiate with Team’s parent company, Highlight Communications, an improved remuneration package for the next Champions League sales cycle, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.
The day-to-day management of the agency is now shared between Martin Wagner, Jamie Graham, Thomas Schmidt, Simon Crouch and Jan Werner.