The Football Rich List 2010/11: The Managers

8. Harry Redknapp £10m

Tottenham Hotspur Age 63 (Last year £10m)
Not many managers inspire a transfer fee, but not many managers are Harry Redknapp, and Spurs won't regret the £5m compensation they paid Portsmouth in October 2008. Then, Tottenham were bottom of the league; a year and a half later they qualified for the Champions League.
An intelligent midfielder for West Ham and Bournemouth, Redknapp started in management in 1976 as assistant at Seattle Sounders and achieved subsequent success with Bournemouth, West Ham and Pompey – the less said about his Southampton sojourn the better. He lives on Panorama Road, in Sandbanks, one of the most expensive areas of real estate in the world, where a dilapidated bungalow was recently sold for £3m. Redknapp's house dates from 1911 and is reckoned to be worth at least £8m. But allowing for any mortgage, Redknapp should easily be worth £10m taking in past contracts and his current one.
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8. Mark Hughes £10m

Fulham Age 46 (Last year £8m)
Mark Hughes was never going to be out of the game for long. Seen by many as unfairly discarded by Manchester City, he was linked with a number of jobs before replacing Roy Hodgson at Fulham this summer.
Hughes rose to fame with Manchester United, whom he represented for 15 years either side of a two-year continental spell with Barcelona and Bayern Munich. He later played for Chelsea, Southampton and Everton, combining playing with managing Wales, with whom he was said to have a £300,000 contract. Moving into club management with Blackburn in 2004 helped raise his profile and earnings: in May 2006 he signed a new three-year deal at Blackburn worth a reported £1.5m a year, and in June 2008 he joined City after signing a three-year contract worth £3m a year. He received at least £3m in compensation from City.
Sparky has outside interests including stakes in Mark Dafydd Design and Developments and Mark Dafydd Prestige Homes, two small building companies. He also owned H2 Soccer Schools, which he ran with Eric Harrison, the legendary United youth manager who discovered famous Fergie Fledglings like David Beckham and Paul Scholes. With his luxury home in the Cheshire stockbroker belt, his share of transfers and salaries as a top player plus his current business interests, Sparky should be easily be worth £10m.
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8. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer £10m

Manchester United Age 37 (New entry)
Perhaps it's a sign of the times that the Manchester United reserve team manager is a decamillionaire. A United legend who scored the last-gasp winner in the 1999 Champions League final, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer played 366 times and scored 126 goals in 11 years on the playing staff before his injury-enforced retirement in 2007.
Remaining at Old Trafford in a dual coaching and ambassadorial role, Solskjaer became Manchester United's full-time reserve team manager in May 2008. At his peak from 2003 to 2006 he was earning at least £1.6m a year in wages plus endorsement income on top. In all, Solskjaer’s accumulated earnings since 1996 should take him to £10m. He donated the £2m takings from his 2008 testimonial to charity.
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6. Roberto Mancini £15m

Manchester City Age 46 (New entry)
Hungry for quick success, both Chelsea and Manchester City ordered in an Italian. But while Roman Abramovich longs to taste the Champions League success previously served up by Stamford Bridge boss Carlo Ancelotti, Manchester City's Arab owners would be happy – for now – to settle for the tasty hors d'oeuvre of regular league titles which Roberto Mancini repeatedly brought to Inter Milan's table.
The trouble for Mancini was that even three straight Serie A titles didn't satisfy Inter's president and fans, who demanded the Champions League. So despite having signed an enhanced contract in 2007, which lasted until 2012, he was sacked at the end of the 2008 season when his contract was worth around £5.5m a year. Mancini rejected a compensation offer for around £5m for early termination of the Inter contract. And so to Manchester, where City pay him around £6m a year with a £2m signing-on fee.  
In all his years as a player and later as a manager in Italy (with a brief cameo role at Leicester City as a player in 2001) Mancini should have picked up perhaps £16m from contracts and compensation. In all, Mancini should have had £24m in wages, but allowing for tax and spending we value him at £15m.
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6. Sven-Goran Eriksson £15m

Leicester City Age 62 (Last year £15m)
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The uncharitable might say that Svennis's recent adventures with Mexico, Notts County, Ivory Coast and now Leicester mark him out as a hired gun whose only concern is who will pay him next, but there have been plenty willing to do so. Unremarkable second-tier Swedish player he may have been, but Eriksson has kept his accountant busy: Gothenburg, Benfica, Sampdoria, Lazio, England and Manchester City have all added him to the honour roll – and payroll.
It was his England tenure that aroused accusations of money love. It's hardly his fault that the FA, worried he may be tempted back into club management, hiked his annual salary to £4m, but he seemed rather too ready to accept the £5m a year he was "offered" to manage Aston Villa by a tabloid's fake-sheikh entrapment.
Leaving England after reaching three successive quarter-finals – a round neither of his successors has yet reached, he took a year out before signing a £9m three-year contract to head up the Thaksin Shinawatra-funded revolution at Manchester City. He lasted 10 months there and 11 months in Mexico before Notts County's new money-men offered him a five-year contract reported worth £2m a year, although he waived the pay-off when leaving in February 2010.
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