How Much Does José Mourinho Earn?

Italy's Inter Milan coach, the flamboyant Portuguese trainer José Mourinho accidentally (or not) slipped out his yearly wage to a reporter on last week's Champions League press conference.
Before the match Inter Milan - Werder Bremen (ended up in a 1-1 draw), Mourinho dared a reporter to give him 11 names for Wednesday's match without criticizing them after wards.
The reporter told him he would do it, if he could get a share of Mourinho's 9 Million Euro year wage at Inter.
Mourinho, who's known to make bold pronunciations, answered him that he doesn't earn 9 Million Euro for his coaching job, but 11 million Euro. He also added that if you also take the advertising income into account he'll even earns up to 14 Million Euro a year at Inter.

Not bad for somebody that started out as a translator for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisbon in the early nineties. When Sir Bobby Robson left Sporting Lisbon to Coach Spain's FC Barcelona, Mourinho followed him. When Sir Bobby Robson left Barcelona, Mourinho stayed and helped out the new head coach, Dutchman Louis Van Gaal. Sir Bobby Robson once told he never saw anybody so passionate about soccer and anybody that reads the game as well than José Mourinho. Benfica

After training the FC Barcelona B squad for a couple of years, Mourinho got the opportunity to get back to his country of birth and coach Benfica in the year 2000. After only 9 league games in the Portuguese Championship he quit his coaching job at Benfica because the newly appointed president of Benfica got an eye on another head coach. União de Leiria

In January 2001 he started out as the new head coach of União de Leiria. At the end of the season they've ended up on the 5th place, the highest place in their club history. One year later in January 2002, Mourinho was appointed to be the head coach of FC Porto. In his first year at Porto he finished 3rd. He even said he would make Porto Champions next season.