In general, when you are fired from your job for no economic reason, it is because you have failed.
And in these cases, for gross negligence or not, we leave with nothing, without a check.
There is one exception to this rule: if you are a recognized football coach, you usually walk away with a big check.
If on top of that, your name is José Mourinho, you can become a millionaire by getting fired.
In his career and since his victory in the Champions League in 2004 against Monaco, "The Special One" has gone through the biggest and richest clubs on the planet: Chelsea (2004-2007 then 2013-2015), the Inter Milan (2008-2010), Real (2010-2013), Manchester United (2016-2018) and Tottenham (2019-2021).
Next season he will be the coach of AS Roma.
At each of these passages, the Portuguese in very skillful businessman negotiated contracts and wages in gold.
At Tottenham, for example, he touched £ 15m last season, or just € 17m.
€ 22m to leave Manchester United
The concern for the financial directors of the clubs in which Mourinho has officiated is that he rarely went to the end of his missions. He was almost always kicked out of office and each time, boom: it was the guaranteed jackpot for his banker. Chelsea no longer want him in 2007? Okay, but his owner Roman Abramovich has to sign him a check for € 21 million.
The best part is that when he returns to London in 2013, the adventure ends two years later, the Russian oligarch still has to take out his wallet before saying goodbye to him. And presto: another 15 M € in compensation! His divorce from Real Madrid? 10 M € more. Manchester United are fed up with their moods in 2018? Okay, he's leaving, but on condition of paying him € 22 million. And we do not forget Tottenham who in turn separated from "The Special One" a few days ago. To achieve this, the club negotiated a new compensation premium of… 23 M € to compensate for the technician's contract which ran until 2023. It was only by leaving Porto and Inter Milan that he left empty-handed.
By dint of being fired from all these clubs, José Mourinho ultimately received a total amount of compensation estimated at… 91 M €!
We are therefore not talking about these salaries, just these severance payments.
“Dopo essermi confrontato con la propertyà con Tiago Pinto ho capito immediately quanto sia alta the ambizione di questa Società.
The incredibile passione dei tifosi della Roma mi ha convinto ad accettare l'incarico.
Daje Roma! ”.
💬 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆́ 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒐
- AS Roma (@OfficialASRoma) May 4, 2021
So the one who trembles today is probably the treasurer of AS Roma who has just hired Mourinho from next season. Even if the club's action jumped 38% following his appointment, the financier is praying that for once, the Portuguese will follow through on his contract. Roma will already pay him an annual salary of € 7.5 million net. Admittedly, it is less than in Tottenham (17.5) but Mourinho is not a loser. He had a clause in his contract with the English club: if he found a club before the end of the summer with a lower salary, Spurs were obliged to pay him the difference. Tottenham will therefore have to pay € 10 million to a coach who is no longer on his bench.
According to several estimates, the personal fortune of the Lusitano coach would exceed 110 M €, a sum to which must be added his advertising contracts with Adidas, a luxury watch brand, the car brand Jaguar, the video game publisher EA Sports and a few more.
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