Soccer Extreme : Inter boss Jose Mourinho is the highest paid individual in Serie A, according to a report in La Gazzetta dello Sport.The famous pink paper has looked into the wage bills of the top-flight clubs for this season and this morning printed its findings.
For the first time ever, the biggest earner in the Division is a Coach with the Portuguese maestro reportedly netting 11m Euros a campaign.
And in an odd twist, given that the San Siro giants are still paying former boss Roberto Mancini 6m a year, the Nerazzurri’s coaching wage bill is more than the combined 15.7m total paid by the other 19 sides for their tacticians.
On the player front, Samuel Eto’o has taken over from Zlatan Ibrahimovic on and off the pitch seeing as he is Italy’s most costly thanks to his 10.5m Euros fee.
Milan’s Ronaldinho is second with 7.5m, ahead of Gigi Buffon and Patrick Vieira who are reputed to earn 5.5m Euros each.
If it is value for money you are after, then Cagliari’s Federico Marchetti is the cheapest Italian international as he is on only 150,000 Euros a season.
Inter are unsurprisingly the biggest payers, ahead of Milan and Juventus. Chievo and Atalanta have the smallest wage bills.
Serie A’s most expensive XI:
- Buffon (Juventus – 5.5)
- Maicon (Inter – 4.5)
- Nesta (Milan – 4)
- Lucio (Inter – 4.5)
- Chivu (Inter – 3.5)
- Vieira (Inter – 5.5)
- Pirlo (Milan – 5)
- Sneijder (Inter – 4)
- Ronaldinho (Milan – 7.5)
- Eto'o (Inter – 10.5)
- Totti (Roma – 5.5)
Club by club wage bills: Inter 150m; Milan 125.5m; Juventus 115m; Roma 69.7m; Fiorentina 40m; Genoa 38m; Napoli 37m; Lazio 32.9m; Palermo 30m; Parma 26m; Sampdoria 24m; Bari 20m; Bologna 20m; Cagliari 19m; Udinese 18m; Siena 17.5m; Catania 17.5m, Livorno 14.3m, Chievo 13m; Atalanta 13m. (football-italia)