Jose Mourinho to earn over $11 million a yr at Fenerbahce

ISTANBUL — Fenerbahce say new coach Jose Mourinho is about to earn €10.5 million ($11.4 million) a yr in wage after he agreed on a two-year contract.

Fenerbahce revealed the figures in a declaration to tell the inventory market on Wednesday, three days after the storied Turkish membership introduced Mourinho to hundreds of followers at their stadium.

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There was no point out of the scale of any bonuses in Mourinho’s contract.

Mourinho has been tasked with successful the Turkish league, one thing Fenerbahce haven’t achieved since 2014. The workforce had been overwhelmed to the title by fierce rivals Galatasaray final month. Fenerbahce may also enter the Champions League within the early qualifying rounds in July.

Mourinho has not labored exterior of the highest 5 European leagues since 2004, when he left Porto after successful the Champions League and joined Chelsea, which was on the rise underneath then-owner Roman Abramovich.

Since then, he has additionally coached Inter Milan, Actual Madrid, Manchester United and Tottenham in a profession crammed with trophies and off-field controversy.

In the meantime, one other Istanbul-based membership, Besiktas, introduced Wednesday that Giovanni van Bronckhorst has agreed to hitch the workforce as head coach.

The Dutch coach has agreed to a two-year contract with the choice of extending by one other season, Besiktas mentioned in an announcement posted on their web site.

Van Bronchorst final coached Rangers, taking the Scottish workforce to the Europa League closing within the 2021-22 season.