The Cost of Failure
2 news stories are dominating football news this week:
- The failed attempt to create a breakaway European Super League.
- Jose Mourinho getting sacked. Again.
Now the 1st one makes me too angry to write about so it's best if I avoid that one. I don't know if anybody's been banned for excessive foul language and I don't plan to find out. Yet.
So I'll have a bit of a ramble about the 2nd one.
I don't really care much for the reasons behind the sacking. I'd like to think Mourinho showed a bit of integrity and told Daniel Levy he's a c*** for getting involved in the ESL, which led to his dismissal. So that's the angle I'll stick with.
What's more impressive, and something I learned about after he got sacked by Manchester United, is the utterly ridiculous amount of money he's been paid for doing (in each club's eye), a shit job.
Precise numbers are hard to come by so I'll share some figures from 2 sources. The ever-so-trustworthy (ha ha) Daily Mirror and a website I only discovered in researching this piece Sport Bible.
He's been sacked by Chelsea twice, for a combined sum of £30.5m or £31.37m - let's go somewhere in the middle and say £31m.
Real Madrid paid him something between £17m and £33.6m - let's average this again and go for £25m.
Manchester United got off lightly, costing them £15m to £19.6m so let's say £17m for this one.
The sacking by Spurs earning him a reported £30m.
That's £103m in payoffs.
To put that into perspective, that's roughly:
- 140 million Steem
- 5 million Steemcurator01 upvotes
- 740 million the-gorilla upvotes
- 1 triptych by artist Francis Bacon.
Not bad for being perceived to be so bad at your job, that you need to leave with immediate effect.
Who will be the lucky club to sack "The Special One" next?
It's safe to say Jose is a money scout. It seems he just finds a way to get those deals, bottle them and get paid off. No better businessman in the managerial job than the Portuguese.
For real, he really has nothing else to prove. He's won it all at the top and whether they like it or no, he's still a top manager and some teams will still scramble to have him.
It's absolutely staggering the pay offs these guys get, largely funded by the extortionate prices we the fans pay for match tickets, jerseys and merchandise.
It's amazing. It seems bizarre that in Sport, players are given fixed term contracts which subsequently cost a fortune to terminate. You'd think they'd start putting in clauses along the lines of "if you drop below 10th in the League, we can sack you without compensation" or similar.
Tottenham sack manager after 17 months
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