Jose Mourinho has become one of the world’s most renowned managers after plenty of success throughout his career, during which he has collected an abundance of silverware across Europe.
A short seven-year playing career in Portugal was quickly followed by an early coaching path which eventually brought him to Porto in 2002, where Mourinho’s career really kicked off and laid the foundations for 25 trophies over the next 15 years.
Spells with Porto (six trophies), Chelsea twice (eight trophies), Inter Milan (five trophies), Real Madrid (three trophies) and Manchester United (three trophies) have made the Portuguese one of the most decorated, well-respected and richest managers in the world.
However, his three previous appointments at Chelsea and Man United (despite the trophies) as well as Tottenham Hotspur have all ended with the 58-year-old being sacked.
Yet the current AS Roma boss made £97.6million in wages alone from these three jobs before tax, whilst also receiving handsome pay offs in compensation.
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After winning both the Primeira Liga and UEFA Cup in 2002-03 with Porto, Mourinho really rose to prominence when he miraculously guided the Portuguese side to the Champions League title as part of an prestigious double the following season.
He was subsequently appointed by Chelsea soon after.
In his first season in west London, he guided Chelsea to the Premier League title and League Cup during 2004-05, before winning a second Premier League the following year.
Another League Cup and an FA Cup came in 2006-07 but Mourinho left by ‘mutual consent’ in September 2007.
He returned to the dugout with Inter Milan ahead of the 2008-09 season and won Serie A in his first campaign, before regaining that title the following season as part of the treble which included the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League and Coppa Italia.
A world-record breaking compensation package was successfully agreed for Mourinho to join Real Madrid from Inter in May 2010, where the new manager would go on to win the Copa del Rey in his first season, before claiming the La Liga crown in his second season.
Mourinho returned to Chelsea in 2013 on a four-year contract and it only took till his second season for him to claim some silverware again - winning both the Premier League and the League Cup.
However, he was then sacked in December 2015, which was the first of three straight sackings for the boss.
In May 2016, he signed a three-year contract with United and won the EFL Cup and the Europa League in 2016-17 - his last pieces of silverware to date - before again being sacked in December 2018.
A stint at Spurs then followed in 2019 on a four-year contract, certainly raising eyebrows, but after no success in north London, Mourinho was sacked from his third successive job in April 2021 after 17 months in charge.
He was announced as Roma's new manager just a few weeks later.
Mourinho has undoubtedly earned an eye watering amount of money via career earnings of wages and various bonuses.
On average he was earning more than £42,000 per day (£41,096 at Spurs, £49,315 at Man Utd and £36,164 at Chelsea), while managing for a total of just 2,315 days across the three roles.
And these were followed up by a huge combined pay out of around £46.2m making him by far the most expensive manager in the history of the Premier League and averaging a salary of around $27m a year (£20m).
All that has helped him accrue a net worth which currently stands at a staggering $120m (£89.1 m).
Outside of football, Mourinho still owns his London house from his time at Chelsea and Spurs, a six-bedroom mansion which he bought for £6.5m, yet it is now thought to be worth around £25m.
Mourinho is quite the controversial character and has found success in other areas of business, having featured in European advertisement campaigns for Samsung, American Express, Braun, Jaguar and Adidas, amongst others.
He would receive annual fees of £2m from Jaguar, £1.5m from Adidas and a further £2m from Hublot.
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With these endorsements, Mourinho’s annual earning would rise to £22m, which was also helped after he signed a £4m a year deal with Heineken a few years ago.
Even though career wages and bonuses will last Mourinho well into retirement, the pay outs from being sacked at his three most recent jobs, coupled with endorsements from various companies, will continue to make him one of the richest managers in the world for a lifetime.
