Mourinho in front of 2 billion mark
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25 years ago, for the 2000/01 season, transfermarkt.de went online. At that time, Juventus hired Turin for the equivalent of 23 million euros striker David Trezeguet and spent a total of more than 50 million euros in compiling his coach Carlo Ancelotti a masterly team. The old lady was not enough for the title at the time, but with Ancelotti it continued. To date, the 65-year-old is one of the three coaches, for whose teams the greatest investments in football history have been made. For the TM anniversary, we look back on the largest editions of coaches since the 2000/01 season. One even exceeded the 2 billion euro brand, another could follow promptly. 13 trainers got players for more than one billion euros.
Pep Guardiola, who only entered the coaching business many years after Ancelotti is the undisputed “Big Donor” of football. During his terms at Barcelona, FC Bayern and Manchester City, his employers have spent an impressive EUR 2.43 billion for players since 2008, with whom Guardiola won 39 titles. After the disappointing 2024/25 season, 130 million euros in transfers for the coming season came together at the DETHONTE Master.
It is noteworthy that the huge total amount was applied for only 93 players. For comparison: José Mourinho, who follows Guardiola in second place in the edition ranking, had an EUR 1.95 billion pays for 130 players. Fenerbahce coach Mourinho with FC Porto, Chelsea, Inter, Real and Man United arrives. Ancelotti in third place and with spending of EUR 1.83 billion for 105 players since 2000/01, 30 titles were granted.
Mourinho could spend over 2 billion as the second trainer
According to Guardiola, Mourinho could be the second coach promptly, who had more than 2 billion euros spent on his players in his career. This may be the case in the coming season. For 2025/26, the 12 million euro purchase of loan players Sofyan Amrabat (28) has already been determined, which increased Mourinho’s expenses to EUR 1.95 billion. With another 50 million euros, the brand would be reached. In the past season, the Turks, who narrowly missed the championship title, made more than 67 million euros for transfers.
While Ancelotti as the new national coach of Brazil for the first time is out of any transfer, all other colleagues from the current top 5 can add more investments. These include the new Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri (1.44 billion) and Atlético-icon Diego Simeone (1.35 billion). For the time being, the two best-placed Germans are also from the race: Jürgen Klopp-with EUR 1.15 billion in 11th place-because after the departure of Liverpool there is no new coaching engagement in sight until further notice, and Thomas Tuchel, who now looks after the English state selection.
With EUR 1.22 million, Tuchel is even in 9th place before the ex-Dortmund Klopp. Thanks to them, in addition to the two German top clubs FC Bayern and BVB, FSV Mainz is also represented in the ranking. During Klopp’s seven -year -old era in the zero fifts, the Rheinhessen spent more than 16 million euros, during the five -year term Tuchels more than 33 million euros. Klopps BVB-Transfers cost over EUR 200 million in seven years, for Tuchel in Dortmund in two years in two years. In Tuchels Bavaria year 2023/24, the transfers from Harry Kane, Min-Jae Kim and Sacha Boey fall, among other things. Cost: More than 170 million euros (filtering according to the association: All transfers by Jürgen Klopp and all transfers by Thomas Tuchel).
Incidentally, there are only two coaches who cracked the billion mark when looking at individual stations of the coaches. In addition to Guardiola at Man City, only Simeone at Atlético. A German club can only be found in 60th place in this statistics, and it is not FC Bayern with Guardiola, but VfL Wolfsburg under Dieter Hecking, which from the beginning of 2013 to summer 2016 spent around 220 million euros for new players. Bavaria’s expenses under Guardiola from 2013 to 2016 (206 million) are only slightly higher than that of Julian Nagelsmann (summer 2021 to winter 2023) with EUR 204 million (to statistics: highest expenses of a trainer during one term).