Ah, So Pay is Based on Tactical Genius, Then
By: Martha | September 13th, 2007
Note: I’m being Bob today (which is WAY harder than it looks), so I’ll be back later with a WAG of the Week, but probably not much else. Sorry, my brain is just too small to do both.
Continuing this week’s trend of publicizing everyone in calcio’s salaries, the list of how much each coach in Serie A earns was released today by La Gazzetta, and topping the list is everyone’s favorite tactician, Inter’s Roberto Mancini. In fact, Mancini is the second highest-paid manager in all of Europe, his €5 million topping every salary but that of The Great Jose Mourinho (with whom Mancio was once rumored to be about to swap jobs), who earns €5.5 million every season. If Inter take home another Scudetto, though, or by some miracle win the Champions League, incentive clauses could push Mancini’s take-home over €6 million. Not bad for just trying not to break the second-most expensive team in the league, huh?
As with their player salaries, Inter and Milan pay their gaffers far more than the rest of Serie A: Carlo Ancelotti takes home €4.5 million/season, more than twice what third-place Luciano Spalletti (€2 million) earns, and far more than what Fiorentina’s Cesare Prandelli (who, along with Claudio Ranieri, is joint fourth on €1.5 million/season) makes. One could convincingly argue that Spalletti and Prandelli are the two sharpest coaches in the league and are getting utterly screwed, but I suppose it’s true across sports that the most talented coaches rarely end up with teams that can pay them that they’re worth.
To put this all in perspective, though, it must be pointed out that, were Spalletti in Germany with his current salary, he would be — with Bayern’s Ottmar Hitzfeld — the best-paid coach in the league, and in France he’d surpass Alain Perrin’s €1.8 million to top the proverbial table.
For the curious among you, the full list is after the jump.
1. Roberto Mancini (Inter) €5 million
2. Carlo Ancelotti (Milan) €4.5 million
3. Luciano Spalletti (Roma) €2 million
4. Cesare Prandelli (Fiorentina) €1.5 million
5. Claudio Ranieri (Juventus) €1.5 million
6. Walter Novellino (Torino) €1 million
7. Stefano Colantuono (Palermo) €.9 million
8. Edy Reja (Napoli) €.7 million
9. Walter Mazzarri (Sampdoria) €.6 million
10. Delio Rossi (Lazio) €.55 million
11. Marco Giampaolo (Cagliari) €.5 million
12. Pasquale Marino (Udinese) €.5 million
13. Luigi Del Neri (Atalanta) €.45 million
14. Gigi Cagni (Empoli) €.45 million
15. Silvio Baldini (Catania) €.35 million
16. Domenico Di Carlo (Parma) €.35 million
17. Gian Piero Gasperini (Genoa) €.3 million
18. Andrea Mandorlini (Siena) €.26 million
19. Massimo Ficcadenti (Reggina) €.25 million
20. Fernando Orsi (Livorno) €.2 million
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