Lately it\u2019s been a frenzied season of manager sackings with the likes of Steve Bruce, Nuno Espirito Santo, Daniel Farke and Dean Smith shown the exit from their respective clubs, besides hot news swirling of questionable incumbents like Man United\u2019s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer squirming under a shakedown that\u2019s been long overdue.<\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s generally unpleasant business affecting clubs when managers are issued their marching papers for whatever reasons, apparently getting the sack ahead of the time specified on the dotted lines in the contract can actually prove quite profitable for some, with the caveat that the sacking happens repeatedly to the same individual at different clubs over the years.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, some new facts have just revealed how much Jose Mourinho has accumulated over the years from being sacked by a string of football clubs, with the idiosyncratic Portugese manager having received generous compensation from the likes of Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham after getting fired before his contracts expired.<\/p>\n
Mourinho has actually earned in excess of \u00a3100 million from his spell with just clubs in the Premier League itself, and new data from 101 Great Goals<\/em> now reveals how much compensation he has received over the course of his managerial career.<\/p>\n The first stint of \u2018The Special One<\/em>\u2019\u00a0in England was in 2004,\u00a0arriving at Chelsea on the back of a stellar Champions League triumph with Porto. He promptly proceeded to win two Premier League titles at Stamford Bridge before being sacked in 2007 following a poor start to the season.<\/p>\n Unfazed, the serial titles-winning maverick manager continued on his stellar path and clinched domestic titles with Inter Milan and Real Madrid in the years following until 2013, when he and the oligarch owner of Chelsea kissed and made up and he accordingly returned to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, the Portuguese maestro orchestrated all that was necessary to lift the Premier League trophy once again in 2015. However, a leopard can\u2019t change its spots, like they say, and much like in his first stint, the creamy milk quickly turned rancid thereafter. The hero turned villain again was fired unceremoniously later in the year and Mourinho, never short of options or suitors, found himself at the Old Trafford by 2016, licking his chops and eager to replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal as United’s head coach.<\/p>\n Mourinho\u2019s stint at the Theater of Dreams lasted two years, during which time he won the League Cup, Europa League and the Community Shield. However, murmurings of bad blood between the Portuguese manager and Frenchman Paul Pogba allegedly ended up with the club\u2019s hierarchy choosing the latter and once again Mourinho\u2019s party was busted, with him relieved of duties well ahead of the scheduled end of his contract.<\/p>\n