Top 10 Highest Earning Football Managers

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Darkman in Football, Sports

Its not easy being a football manager, as well as the basic managing and coaching of the players, you have to acquire a team of expert coaches, physios, scouts and advisors. You have to deal with the players families, agents and personal information. You have to build a strong rapport with the board of directors and have them let YOU handle the team.

Then come the fans who are the most unpredictable lot you’ll come across. They can love you and hate you within an inch of a second and you dont get the credit you deserve, grey hairs become everyday life and you no longer sleep. Good Times!!! Check out the top earning managers in the game!

10) Arsene Wenger - €4.8 million

Arsene Wenger has an eye to pick up talented players and ability to bring out the best of them. Considering his quality as a manager, Wenger should have earned more than €4.8 million, an amount he is earning at Arsenal at this moment. In fact, Wenger was approached by Real Madrid with a lucrative offer in Summer 2009, but the French manager decided to stay at Arsenal as he thought his job at the club had not finished. Wenger joined Arsenal in 1996 from Nagoya Grampus Eight.

9) Guus Hiddink - €5 million

The Dutch manager is currently guiding Russia national team and is earning a salary of €5 million per year. Since starting his coaching career in 1982 at De Graafschap, Hiddink managed the clubs like PSV Eindhoven, Fenerbahce, Valencia, Real Madrid, Real Betis and Chelsea, besides managing the national sides of Netherlands, South Korea and Australia.

Louis van Gaal - €5.2 million

Bayern Munich is currently paying €5.2 million to their coach Louis van Gaal who joined the German giants in Summer 2009.

7) Manuel Pellegrini - €5.5 million

The Former Chile international has been appointed as Real Madrid boss in Summer 2009 and is currently earning €5.5 million per season at Real Madrid.

6) Carlo Ancelotti - €6 million

Carlo Ancelotti is the current manager of English club Chelsea. He is currently earning €6 million after his Summer move to the West London club from AC Milan.

5) Roberto Mancini - €6 million

Former Inter Milan manager Roberto Mancini is still getting paid an amount of €6 million by Inter Milan, even though he was sacked by the Italian giants in 2008 after his negative comment following his side’s defeat to Liverpool in Champions League second round.

4) Sir Alex Ferguson - €7 million

Sir Alex Ferguson comes fourth in the list of highest paid soccer coaches in the world with his €7 million salary per season at Manchester United.

3) Fabio Capello - €8.8m

Coach of several successes, Fabio Capello is one of the two coaches in this list who are managing a national team, rather than a club. He is the current manger of England national team and earning a €8.8m yearly, and thus, becoming the third highest paid soccer coach at this moment.

2) Jose Mourinho - €11m

Just three years back in 2006, Jose Mourinho was the highest paid coach in the football world when he was the boss of English club Chelsea. The current Inter Milan manager is now earning €11m per season which is the second highest salary paid to a soccer coach at this moment.

1) Luiz Felipe Scolari - €13m

Since arriving in Italy, Jose Mourinho’s €11m salary has cemented his status as the best paid manager in the world. This morning, however, it has been revealed that The Special One’s huge remuneration package has been eclipsed by that of another Chelsea alumnus. After signing an eighteen-month contract with Uzbekistani side FC Bunyodkor, Big Phil Scolari will now take home an annual pay packet of €13m.