Ancelotti's salary and the clause that protects Madrid

Ancelotti returns to be Real Madrid coach. His first two seasons were really successful: a European Cup, a Cup, the European Super Cup and a Club World Cup. If his first career was marked by the BBC, in this second the Italian will have to face a major renewal of the squad, in which there are heavyweights who are clearly over 30 years old or are in them (Kroos, Modric, Ramos, Benzema…) and there are young stars who are yet to arrive. You will need time to get the equipment going. A long project. So far, he has signed for three seasons. Y Everton has not hindered the Italian's departure. He was tenth in the last Premier and had a great contract. A relief also for the white entity that has not had to pay a lot of settlement

Ancelotti signs for three years with Real Madrid. In this sense, the white entity has been practicing in recent years a strategy that has helped it save large amounts of money. With it, he covers his back. It is the clause that allows the entity to dispense with the services of its technician by paying him what he has left to receive in salary that season and a whole more.

In this way, if a technician receives 12 million euros (one per month) and is fired at the end of April, he would receive two million euros (corresponding to May and June of that season), plus a whole year (other 12 million) even if he had two or three more years on his contract.

In the case of Ancelotti, the salary that he has agreed with Real Madrid for this second stage has not transcended, but it has been lowered to make his return feasible. It did emerge in England a few months ago that he was charging 11 million pounds per season for coaching Everton. Technicians have been increasing their cache progressively in recent years. Mourinho, for example, used to say that he wanted to earn one euro more than the top star of his squad in order to be respected. That, in teams with superstars like Messi, Griezmann, Bale, Cristiano, Hazard or Benzema, is almost impossible.