Coach Pay
November 28th, 2007 . 4:28 pm . By: Buzz CarrickI’ve said on several occasions that FCD’s head coaching gig was one of the lowest paid in the league, but I’ve never been able to back it up with numbers. The great Frank Dell’Apa has finally backed me up with numbers. To make a long story short here’s the list. Rudd Gullit (LA) = $4 Mil over 3 years = $1.33 Million a year. No wonder Preki is rumored to be interested in that NY Red Bull job. 9 Comments Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI Leave a comment |
A coach who makes 3 MLS Cup finals in a row and wins the US Open Cup is the lowest paid coach in the league. That’s disgusting.
Dang . . . that seems as unfair as some of the player salaries. Does that make Gullit and Arena’s replacement Designated Coaches?
The 2 teams that make it to the open cup final have the lowest paid coaches wow
The league must have something against guys named Steve.
Did Yallop leave 1.33 mill in LA to go to SJ and make 210,000?
Did Sigi blow it all on donuts?
On a more serious note, the one that surprises me the most is Nicol. Lowest paid but one of the better coaches I think.
Nathan – There is nothing that shows us that Nicol is the lowest paid. We know several coaches maker less than $200k but we don’t know that they make more than $175k. Not that Clavijo or KSE would ever confirm it but the word on the street that Clavijo made $80k in the first year of his contract at the Rapids.
[...] Dell’Apa at ESPNSoccernet and Buzz Carrick at 3rd Degree put together a list of approximate MLS coaching salaries, listed at the bottom. There’s a lot [...]