Highest Paid Football Managers
Number 5: Jürgen Klopp
Jurgen Klopp was chosen the manager of Liverpool after Brendan Rodgers was sacked due to a string of bad performances in the club in 2015. Jürgen Klopp took over a club that was struggling in the league. Klopp’s astonishing performances have already earned him a new contract which offers him 7 million pounds a year.
As a footballer, Klopp spent most of his 15-year career in the second tier of German football at Mainz 05 after signing for the club in 1990. A physical and hard-working player, he was positioned as a striker, before he began to play as a defender in 1995 until his retirement in 2001, during which he began to study management.
Klopp’s side finished second in their group to qualify for the knockout phase after winning 1–0 against Napoli in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League. Klopp’s side was knocked out in the third round of the League Cup after losing 2–1 to Chelsea on 26 September 2018 which was their first defeat of the season in all matches. Liverpool was bowled over the FA Cup after losing 2–1 in the third round to Wolves as Klopp made nine changes to his starting eleven which included two teenage debutants.
Number 4: Mauricio Pochettino
Mauricio Pochettino has strengthened a Tottenham team that struggled to always make it to the top four of the domestic league. Since the time he was appointed, Pochettino has aided the team in developing talented young players who have great responsibilities in the club and have turned out to be brilliant football stars. Around the same time, he has assisted instill confidence in a side that struggled to make it to the top four and has turned that side into one that has constantly placed three in the domestic league.
His performances for the club earned him a new contract that offers him a gigantic 8.5 million pounds a year and this makes him the fourth highest paid football manager in the world. Pochettino deserves the offer as he has transformed Tottenham to a winning team. He has won 123, drawn 50 and lost 47 out of the 220 matches he has managed. Footballers who are coached by Mauricio have also praised his man-management style and guidance encouraging the players to take charge of their own development as well as helping them to improve technically, physically, and mentally with his willingness to advise.
Number 3: Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho is unquestionably one of the most successful and most controversial managers in football history. The Manchester United manager earns a reported £15 million per year basic salary minus the bonuses.
Jose Mourinho worked as an assistant manager at Barcelona and FC Porto before moving to Benfica in 2000. After he led Porto to a Champions League title in 2004, Mourinho came into the limelight. This unparalleled success led him to bag the Chelsea job and the rest is history. Jose Mourinho is the one from the highest paid Football Managers.
Mourinho got the Manchester United job from the out-going Louis Van Gaal in 2016 and he recently signed a new contract with an option to extend for one year until 2020. This confirmed that the board has faith in the former Real Madrid manager. Mourinho won the League Cup and Europa League title in his inaugural season and is hoping to add more trophies in future. After starting the 2018–19 season with merely seven wins in the first 17 Premier League games, leaving team Manchester United 19 points behind the league leaders, on 18 December 2018, Mourinho was sacked by the club.
Number 2: Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola is debatably the best manager in the world right now and deserves a higher salary that he gets for his services. He earns about £15.3 million per year at Manchester City. Pep was a great player for Barcelona and began his career in management with Barcelona’s B side. After leaving his impression there, he was appointed as the Barcelona manager and led them through their most fruitful era. He joined Manchester City after a 3-year stint with Bayern Munich in 2016. Pep Guardiola is the one from the highest paid Football Managers.
Pep took over the reins from Manuel Pellegrini and endured a dreary first season. But, this season, City are expected to win the league as they are in elite form. We can, therefore, say that the era of Guardiola is just opening at Manchester City.
As Pep has served as the captain of both the Spanish national side and Barcelona, he also stood out for his management throughout his career. His playing style majorly relied on technique, creativity, and ball movement, rather than pace and physicality, inspired many future minuscule Spanish playmaking midfielders, such as Andrés Iniesta, Xavi, and Cesc Fàbregas.
Number 1: Marcello Lippi
Marcello Lippi is another Italian on this list who is the highest paid manager in football as of now. Lippi has coached a host of teams over the years and earns £18 million per year with the Chinese national team. The 69-year-old began his managerial career way back in 1982 with Sampdoria in the Italian league and has since coached the likes of Napoli, Juventus and Inter Milan before winning the World Cup with Italy in 2006. Marcello Lippi is the one from the highest paid Football Managers.
The Champions League winning manager was appointed as the coach of China after impressing with Guangzhou Evergrande. China has had limited success in qualifying for the World Cup but have reached the AFC Asian Cup finals and will be hoping to give a strong showing. Lippi also paid great attention to their athletic preparation, and to diets of his players’, and constantly made use of the newest technologies and hired athletic coaches who used the most current training methods.
He was given the title of the world’s best football manager by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in 1996 and 1998, and the world’s best National coach in 2006. He is the first manager to have won the most prestigious international competitions both for national teams and for clubs in different continents.
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