Jose Mourinho famously describes himself as the Special One and it has been revealed he is also drawing a very special salary at Real Madrid - the highest in world football in fact. Portuguese marketing agency Futebol Finance have published their list of the top coaching salaries in the game and Mourinho comes out on top with an*eye-watering*£8.4 million per annum. His great rival at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, and Guus Hiddink, who recently accepted the job of managing cash-rich Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, are joint second with salaries of £6.3m. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Manchester City's Roberto Mancini is the highest paid manager in England at £5m, ahead of Sir Alex Ferguson, who is paid £4m per annum by Manchester United. However, there are some surprisingly high entries from the Premier League, with Mark Hughes, manager of relegation candidates QPR, earning a salary of £3m which makes him the 13th highest paid manager in the global game. In fact, Hughes is paid more than World Cup winning coach Vicente del Bosque (£1.8m), Germany's Joachim Loew (£2m) and coach of German champions Borussia Dortmund, Juergen Klopp (£1.8m). Visit Futebol Finance for full details.
Wow! That's quite incredible. But I suppose that when you put that into weekly terms it equates to £62,500 pw.
no fact, whats surprising is everton alaways pleading poverty, pay moyes the same, make me think jol is underpaid did not even make the list, going to bung him a few quid tomorrow
Exactly. It's actually strange to think that, in financial terms, Man U rate someone like Rio Ferdinand higher than Alex Ferguson.
Players are paid more because their actual high-earning career level is so short, ten to twelve years which is probably three contracts. Managers will earn up to their 60s or 70s even. In the end it's the players that win the matches...
That's a very fair, honourable view if true although I think it's more about supply and demand. The premium you pay for the players that give you a small edge over your opponents. The tables do show the teams that are consistently up there and stability in management plays a key role, so surely those managers who keep the teams performing at the highest levels deserve the rewards as much as anyone. Prime example is Moyes and the above mentioned figures would put him as one of their top earners which would be difficult to argue with. Incidentally, I reckon Kieran Dyer could keep performing at his current level well into his 70s.
Haha i can just see it, Dyer enters the pitch and shuffles his zimmer towards his position......three minutes later so very very close but gets hit in the head by a loose ball and goes down.......NURSE!!!!
