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Mr Lineker’s stance has triggered outrage in Doha.
One source, who did not wish to be named, said the former player had displayed “hypocrisy” by “virtue-signalling when you have pocketed so much money from the very country you are criticising”.
They added: “It is brazen and scarcely believable… he signed the last contract a long time after the World Cup was awarded and the outrage that followed.”
Conservative MP Julian Knight has been one public figure to react negatively to Mr Lineker’s alleged payout.
“It’s boring, that’s the problem with it. Viewers, they’ve been lectured to, aren’t they?” he told GB News.
“I mean, one that got my goat and I think got some of my constituent’s goats was the other day when they broke up half-time coverage to talk about the environment and climate change, etc.”
He went on to speak more specifically about the news host.
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