THE TEN RICHEST FOOTBALL MANAGERS

Who's the richest football manager

Fab ends a bad year by winning one title at least – richest manager – while Sir Alex Ferguson suffers the unusual indignity of finishing second

Overpaid and over here? There are four Italians among the richest seven managers (Graham Hughes)
The England manager, Fabio Capello, is the richest football manager in the UK and Ireland, according to The Sunday Times Sport Rich List, published this Sunday, May 15, in a special supplement free with The Sunday Times. Capello has added £3m to his fortune in the past year, taking him to £37m, and is one of four Italian managers operating at the top of the British and Irish game to feature in this year’s Sunday Times Sport Rich List.
Capello stood to earn a huge bonus on top of his basic £5.5m salary had England progressed beyond the first knockout stage of the World Cup in South Africa last summer. The defeat to Germany was one of only two in 18 competitive matches since Capello took over in December 2007 and he will lead England into the next major tournament, next year’s European Championships.
Capello is £10m ahead of the man who this weekend should celebrate the winning of a 12th Premier League title with Manchester United. Now in his 25th year at Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson, 69, is on a basic salary of £4m a year on a rolling contract. He also earned £4m in the past year from the sale of toptable.co.uk, a restaurant booking service in which he had an 11% stake when it was sold for £35m. Like Capello, Sir Alex has seen his net wealth rise by £3m in the past year, allowing for tax and spending.
Sir Alex is the only non-Italian in this year’s top four. Closing behind him – and up £4m to £25m this year – is Carlo Ancelotti, the manager of Chelsea, who earns £6.5m a year from his three-year deal at Stamford Bridge. The four-time winner of the European Cup (twice as a player and twice as a manager) has so far failed to achieve a further triumph in his two years at Chelsea, prompting almost constant speculation that he might no longer feature in our list in 2012.
Giovanni Trappatoni is the third Italian in our top four and the second who is manager of a national side. Trapattoni has managed Ireland since May 2008, just missing out on qualification for last year’s World Cup finals. He took a voluntary 5% pay cut this year as part of the Irish Football Association’s cutbacks, but has still earned about £3.4m since taking up his part-time post.
Roberto Mancini, the manager of Manchester City completes the quartet of Italians in the football managers section of The Sunday Times Sport Rich List. He ranks 6= among the managers and 57= overall.
Steve Bruce, the manager of Premier League side Sunderland, is the only Englishman in the list, alongside the four Italians, one Swede, a Frenchman, a Scotsman and a Welshman.
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