Premier League manager salaries

[Boro]

This is from the Sunday Mirror article, showing the managers annual salary. Do you think they earn it?

Manager Club Salary

1 Alex Ferguson Man Utd £3.1m

2 Arsene Wenger Arsenal £2.3m

3 Jose Mourinho Chelsea £2m

4 Rafael Benitez Liverpool £1.6m

5 Graeme Souness Newcastle £1.5m

6 Kevin Keegan Man City £1.4m

7 Jacques Santini Tottenham £1.2m

8 David O'Leary Aston Villa £1.2m

9 Mark Hughes Blackburn £1.2m

10 Steve Bruce Birmingham £1.1m

11 Harry Redknapp Portsmouth £1.1m

12 Sam Allardyce Bolton £950,000

13 Alan Curbishley Charlton £900,000

14 Steve McClaren Boro £800,000

15 Iain Dowie Crystal Palace £700,000

16 Chris Coleman Fulham £600,000

17 Steve Wigley Southampton £400,000

18 Gary Megson West Brom £550,000

19 Nigel Worthington Norwich £480,000

20 David Moyes Everton £400,000

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

This is from the Sunday Mirror article, showing the managers annual salary. Do you think they earn it?

2 Arsene Wenger Arsenal £2.3m

God yes, he should make more than that.

 

[Knowledge]

1 Alex Ferguson Man Utd £3.1m

6 Kevin Keegan Man City £1.4m

Yes for Fergie, no for kevin

 

[Lowie01]

Good time for Moyes to ask Everton for a raise, don't you think? Keegan is definitely over-paid, but the order of the list is no great surprise to me.

 

[Cooldude]

Keegan getting paid that much at a club that ain't the richest (In fact, might have financial troubles) is a bit of a mystery. He ain't doing that well either

 

[Weaver]

For mine Mark Hughes is the one that stands out. Novice club manager straight in at number 9.

 

[moomba]

I've got no problem with KK's salary, he more than earned it in his first and second years. Last year was poor, if he can get us in the top half this season I think he has earned his dough.

Remember he took over a club that had spent 4 of it's previous 5 seasons outside the top flight of English football, and hadn't seen the top half of the league since the early 90's.

 

[moomba]

Good time for Moyes to ask Everton for a raise, don't you think? Keegan is definitely over-paid, but the order of the list is no great surprise to me.

Moyes has been offered an extra £800k p.a., he is yet to agree to the deal though.

 

[moomba]

Yes for Fergie, no for kevin

Fergie gets his money on past performances IMO. In recent years his value for money in terms of success, transfer dealings etc has been poor.

 

[The Hitman]

SAF and Wenger have more than earnt their keep. I can't believe the biscuit that Souness is on, and I would have thought with the length of time he's been at The Valley, and with their recent success, Alan Curbishley would be earning bigger bucks.

The Hitman

 

[Shinboners]

Fergie gets his money on past performances IMO. In recent years his value for money in terms of success, transfer dealings etc has been poor.

The ironic thing is that for most of the 90s, Fergie wasn't the highest paid manager in England.

In the early 90s, George Graham was paid more, and I remember reading somewhere that Souness, Evans, and O'Leary were all paid more by their clubs.

As for value for money, it would be interesting to see how much Fergie's salary is when based on club turnover.

 

[Cooldude]

What's surprising is Jose Mourinho's salary, I thought he would've been the highest paid by an absolute country mile

 

[sainter]

It doesn't surprise me that we are financially sound but in the bottom three where it actually counts.

 

[Shinboners]

The top half dozen paid players at Manchester United would be earning more than Sir Alex Ferguson.

I think Wayne Rooney's contract will earn him a base salary of around £3mil per year, and he would be carrying far less responsibility and have a much lower work load than the lowest paid manager in professional football.

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

In the early 90s, George Graham was paid more, and I remember reading somewhere that Souness, Evans, and O'Leary were all paid more by their clubs.

He got his money through other means.

 

[Weaver]

It doesn't surprise me that we are financially sound but in the bottom three where it actually counts.

We have probably spent more on managers than anyone else over the past 10 years ... when you factor in all the pay-offs

 

[Shinboners]

He got his money through other means.

I know you can't handle the tiniest bit of information that could make Arsenal look bad, but, I think it was in Fergie's autobiography where he said that he and Graham compared salaries and it turned out that Graham was earning more than him.

As for Souness and Evans, that may have come from a FourFourTwo article on the decline of Liverpool.

 

[moomba]

We have probably spent more on managers than anyone else over the past 10 years ... when you factor in all the pay-offs

I think Leeds would give you a run, and you only have to take the past three years into account

BTW, Any thoughts on the appointment of Damiano. I would have thought a bit of a nothing appointment, although there might be an easy transition if the team keeps playing like it is.

 

[Weaver]

BTW, Any thoughts on the appointment of Damiano. I would have thought a bit of a nothing appointment, although there might be an easy transition if the team keeps playing like it is.

No complaints. He is very experienced and knows his way around the English scene now. I would have thought he was a pretty good appointment as assistant.

The director of our youth academy, Georges Prost, is a former collegue of his with the French junior set up so they know each other and that is good for us. Our youth set-up is looking quite good now so helpfully Damiano can help get a few of them to take the next step into the seniors.

French ... the new Scottish.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Well we bought a player(Gary Hart) for a set of tracksuits, so it's more than likely we pay the gaffer in pints and crisps.

 

[Paris75]

I tend to think that most managers are actually worth what they're being paid as opposed to players. Managers have little job security and the stress must be incredible, would be interested to see what some lower league managers are on.