While Xavi earns €3.9M at Barça, the millions Ancelotti earns at Real Madrid

After the departure of Zinedine Zidane from the white team in the summer of 2021, the Real Madrid bench became available and Carlo Ancelotti returned to the spanish capital after a surprising turn of events, since at that time the main candidates to take over there were two: the italians Massimiliano Allegri and Antonio Conte.

Carlo Ancelotti is one of the best coaches in the world. The Italian has almost three decades of experience on the bench since he began his career in 1995. But, despite being a renowned coach and with one of the best honors in the world, he is not one of the coaches who earns the most. In fact, he is very far from Simeone, the highest paid in the world.

According to the French media L'Équipe, Simeone receives €34 million a year from Atlético de Madrid, where he has been for more than 10 years, more than the €22.4 million that Pep Guardiola earns at Manchester City and the 17 €.8 million from Jürgen Klopp in Liverpool, the other members of the Top 3 on best paid coaches.

Meanwhile, Xavi Hernández, the current coach of FC Barcelona, is very far from those numbers. He took the reins of Barça in November 2021, so he has been leading it for two years, and renewed on September 2023 with the entire season still ahead of him with a signed contract. Before renewing, Xavi Hernández received a salary of €325,000 per month, which translated into €3.9 million per season, very less than Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid.

Carlo Ancelotti's millionaire salary at Real Madrid

The italian coach is in his second cycle at the white club, having taken over for the second time in June 2021 and currently has one year left on his contract at Real Madrid, until the end of the current season (June 30 of 2024). Carlo Ancelotti signed for three seasons, and his contract includes, according to what the french media L'Équipe reported, a salary close to one million euros per month, €908,000, so he would be receiving around €11 million per season.