Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Monday, June 16, 2025, 10:35 / Updated Monday, June 16, 2025 10:35
Even if he has enlarged, by engaging at Inter, three times the salary he had at ParmaCristi Chivu He occupies a position towards the middle of the ranking in terms of coaches in Italian football. The jump from rescue from relegation to finalist Champions League places him on a draw with the challenge made to another “man of the house”, Igor Tudor at Juventus.
As a player for seven seasons at Inter, Chivu was among the best paid, grace and ability of the agent who negotiated in 2007 the transfer from AS Roma. Former captain of the national team earned 4.5 million euros net annually, but also contributed to nine trophies won by Nerazzurri, including the triple from 2009-2010, Scudetto, Coppa Plus Champions League.
Chivu goes from € 700,000 to Parma, to 2.5 million at Inter
Now he took it very low as a football level (U14), but also pecuniary. And when, after she was accepted to B -series teams, she received without a trac the chance of the series debut not to look at the money, since The seven hundred thousand euros were in accordance with the place in the standings, 18 on February 18th. The first below the survival line in the elite of Italy.
Cristi Chivu has seriously entered bread at Inter California / Photo: Inter.it
If Parma had activated the unilateral extension option for one year or if Cristi was beating the palm to renew the agreement by 2027, the technician with only 13 matches in series would have reached one million euros.
Exactly the salary he had Fabregas at Como, and he in the first season at seniors in the top 5 Europe. I want to not want to talk to Inter, because I could get dizzy at 5 million a year!
17It was the place in the top of the highest paid coaches in the series 2024-2025. The Romanian technician was followed by Roberto d'A Aversa (Empoli) and Paolo Zanetti (Verona), both with 600,000 euros, and Marco Giampaolo (Lecce), with 500,000 euros
Chivu did not put conditions and will receive only one third of the money that Simone Inzaghi would have taken if he remained a fifth season at Inter (in a single year in Saudi Arabia will take charge between 2021 and 2015 at Nezzurri!).
The salaries of coaches in the series of 2025-2026
1. Antonio Conte (Naples) 6.5
2-3. Massimiliano Allegri (Milan) 5
Gian Piero Gasperini (Rome) 5
4. Vincenzo Italiano (Bologna) 3
5. Maurizio Sarri (Lazio) 2.8
6-7. Igor Tudor (Juventus) 2.5
Cristi Chivu (Inter) 2.5
8. Ivan Juric (Atalanta) 2
9. Patrick Vieira (Genoa) 1.4
10. Marco Baroni (Turin) 1.2
11-12. CESC FABREGAS (COMO) 1
Fabio Grosso (Sassuolo) 1
13. Kosta Runjaic (Udinese) 0.75
14. Federico Pisacane (Cagliari) 0.7
15. Paolo Zanetti (Verona) 0.6
Fiorentina, Parma, Lecce, Cremonese and Pisa have not yet named the coaches for the next season.
* The amounts are net in millions of euros.
Antonio Count writes history, after the title gained with Naples in series A / Photo: Getty Images
Antonio Conte is the best paid coach in the series A
With 2.5 million euros (without performance bonuses), Cristi is the equal of Igor Tudor. Like him Croatian represents the Rot-chosen emergency solution from a lack of alternatives (and Juventus He had to have a coach at the World Club Championship!).
The rest of the technicians from the teams with European claims or the title are over Chivu and Tudor. Maurizio Sarri, Stefano Pioli, Vincenzo Italiano, Gian Pony Gasperini, Massimiliano Allegri and Antonio Conte, in increasing order of annual wages.
But all except for the coach who carried on Thiago Motta's work to Bolognahave great experience and trophies in the palmares. CVs worth paying better!
