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Zinedine Zidane (left) will double his wages at Real Madrid after a successful first season
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Zinedine
Zidane will no longer be the lowest paid top manager in European
football after Real Madrid agreed to double his meagre salary.
When
the 44-year-old Frenchman bailed the club out of turmoil last season by
replacing the sacked Rafa Benitez he was given a contract of €2.7m that
amounted to £44,000-a-week net and barely improved on the money he was
earning as B-team coach.
The
new Madrid manager was happy to accept the modest first-team manager
deal with both sides agreeing to sit down again at the end of the season
and review the situation.
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Zidane will still earn less on his new contract than Carlo Ancelotti (right) did at the Bernabeu
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Zidane
guided Real Madrid to their second Champions League in the last three
years in May when they beat Atletico Madrid in Milan and any possibility
that his tenure would be a short one has evaporated.
Zidane’s
new contract will seem him earn €5.5m a season which translates to
£90,000-a-week and still trails the €7.5m a season that the last Real
Madrid manager to win a European Cup – Carlo Ancelotti – earned.
Historically
Real Madrid managers have tended to be relatively poorly paid. The
club’s culture of high-earning superstars has always seen the manager’s
contract as an afterthought and only when Jose Mourinho arrived in 2010
did that change.
Mourinho
made it a prerequisite of accepting the job that he would be paid more
than most of his players and was duly awarded a €10m a season deal.
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Zidane is set to earn £90,000 a week next season, a huge rise on his £44,000 salary last term
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Jose Mourinho changed the culture of manager wages during his time at Real Madrid
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Once
Zidane’s contract has been revised Real Madrid will sit down with
Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and Pepe to tie their futures to the
club.
As Sportsmail
revealed in June, Bale is set to be awarded a bumper new deal that
could keep the 26-year-old at the club beyond his 30th birthday. Ronaldo
will be offered a three-year deal that will keep him at the club until
he is 36. And Pepe’s deal, due to run-out in 2017, will also be
extended.
Bale,
Ronaldo and Pepe were three of the stars of Euro 2016 and Real Madrid
are keen to make plenty of noise about securing their futures in the
Spanish capital.
Bale,
meanwhile, looks set to return to Real Madrid early so that he can play
in next week’s European Super Cup final. Pepe and Ronaldo will not be
back in time to face Sevilla in Trondheim, Norway.
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Gareth Bale (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo - two stars of Euro 2016 - will be offered extensions
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Real Madrid are also keen to extend Pepe's time in Madrid after a successful nine years
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