Other than the Everton managers and Poch (who seems highly regarded), those names above have won trophies in their managerial careers.
But the circus of Clement, Pulis, etc have earned countless millions too. Some question their abillities. Timing - they’re lucky to be around in a period of...
According to business insider magazine:
Benitez (currently) £4m
Pochettino £5.5m
Everton managers such as Koeman £6m a year
Klopp £7m
Wenger £9m
Conte £9.6m
Mourinho & Guardiola £15m
Managers are now paid similar sums to the players they manage. If they deliver PL survival, or CL football...
Wages is the key indicator of likely league success.
On fees, Newcastle and Brighton all spent similar sums in 2017, but Newcastle still had the nucleus of their expensive PL squad from 2015/16.
Totally agree. It’s been proven that wage spend bears the closest correlation to final league position, although obviously in a single season there are many variances (Leicester 2015/16).
My take on 2016/17 is that both Newcastle and Brighton were clearly the best teams, that we outperformed...
Cue a Rafa hating thread. An unlikely enemy of NSC since we threw away the title.
Their accounts/strategy follow the path which West Ham and QPR trod, to bounce straight back up by keeping almost all their best players and buying/borrowing additional quality players.
Ashley astutely went down...