2 news stories are dominating football news this week:
- The failed attempt to create a breakaway European Super League.
- Jose Mourinho getting sacked. Again.
Now the 1st one makes me too angry to write about so it's best if I avoid that one. I don't know if anybody's been banned for excessive foul language and I don't plan to find out. Yet.
So I'll have a bit of a ramble about the 2nd one.
I don't really care much for the reasons behind the sacking. I'd like to think Mourinho showed a bit of integrity and told Daniel Levy he's a c*** for getting involved in the ESL, which led to his dismissal. So that's the angle I'll stick with.
What's more impressive, and something I learned about after he got sacked by Manchester United, is the utterly ridiculous amount of money he's been paid for doing (in each club's eye), a shit job.
Precise numbers are hard to come by so I'll share some figures from 2 sources. The ever-so-trustworthy (ha ha) Daily Mirror and a website I only discovered in researching this piece Sport Bible.
He's been sacked by Chelsea twice, for a combined sum of £30.5m or £31.37m - let's go somewhere in the middle and say £31m.
Real Madrid paid him something between £17m and £33.6m - let's average this again and go for £25m.
Manchester United got off lightly, costing them £15m to £19.6m so let's say £17m for this one.
The sacking by Spurs earning him a reported £30m.
That's £103m in payoffs.
To put that into perspective, that's roughly:
- 140 million Steem
- 5 million Steemcurator01 upvotes
- 740 million the-gorilla upvotes
- 1 triptych by artist Francis Bacon.
Not bad for being perceived to be so bad at your job, that you need to leave with immediate effect.
Who will be the lucky club to sack "The Special One" next?
