World’s Highest Paid Football Managers in 2017

Managers are the most important people at any football club and they are the ones who come under fire when team don’t live up to the expectations. Like Arsene Wenger once said “Football managers are the most important for a club if not why they get sacked when things don’t go well”. Managers bring in their philosophy to the club and can change the fortunes of the team and all the biggest clubs in the world always looking to hire the best managers whatever it cost them.

Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho both signed for Manchester clubs and are by far the highest paid managers in the world. Pep Guardiola will be paid £15 million a year salary by Manchester City in a three year contract while Jose Mourinho’s 3 year deal with United will earn him £13.8 million a year.

Manchester City will be paying around £15 million a year salary to Pep Guardiola to take charge of City from 2016-17 season onwards.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger signed a new 3 year deal back in May 2014 which will keep him at the club until 2016-17 season at least. He earns around £8.3 million a year with his current Arsenal contract. Here is the list of top 20 highest paid managers in world of football today, this is an updated list of march 2016 which was published in the francefootball magazine this week.