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

Category: AC Milan, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Roma, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: AC Milan, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Roma, Rumors -amp; News, Serie A

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• Ginkers |  September 13th, 2007 at 7:18 am

  
  
  

  I think pay should be related to how crazy your president is and all the risks that presents. Hence, Orsi, Giampaolo and probably Colantuono should be the best paid in my opinion.

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• Martha |  September 13th, 2007 at 7:32 am

  
  
  

  Brilliant, Ginkers! Start a petition, I’ll sign.

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• roswitha |  September 13th, 2007 at 8:06 am

  
  
  

  The needs of big clubs are perceptibly different from those of smaller ones. Inter and Milan are full of big, rather individualistic stars and have big [and in Milan's case, scary] management, and their coach needs to function like a CEO as much as anything else. I’m not saying Roma and Fiorentina are not relatively big teams, but the focus on player management and tactics is on a completely different level. I think we can safely conclude that the fact that Roma and Fiorentina are made of awesome and also employ two of the most talented coaches in the league is down to the fact that they are perceptibly smaller operations than Inter and Milan.

  For my part I have to say, full marks to all four of them. Prandelli for being awesome, Spalletti for being awesome in spite of the 7-1, and Carletto and Mancio for just not dying of massive attacks of frustration at any point of time in the football season.

  And all this just increases my appreciation of Lippi and Capello by the hour.

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• Martha |  September 13th, 2007 at 10:33 am

  
  
  

  Totally agree, roswitha, though I’d argue that the different pressures on Ancelotti and Mancini in no way mean their job is harder, or more demanding. Imagine Mancio trying to make, say, Torino win. His head would explode after 20 minutes!

  (And also, just to be topical, given that it’s the big egos that generally make up the national team, the choice of a guy whose highest-profile previous job was at Livorno seems odd at best.)

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• Sofia |  September 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

  
  
  

  I LOVE LIPPI! sorry anyways, psssh everyone knows ranieri should be the highest paid for the sheer fact that he is the coolest!!! haha

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• Steven |  September 13th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

  
  
  

  Correction: he used to be the coolest. Right until the moment he signed for the Old Twat.

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• justin |  September 13th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

  
  
  

  Mazzari, Prandelli and Spaletti should be paid the highest since they are clearly the best we got

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