A year after the end of his disappointing experience as coach of the Saudi Arabian national football team, Roberto Mancini he is ready to return to coaching.
The coach from Jesi will leave Qatar again, after accepting the proposal proposed to him by the club ownerAl-Saddthe country’s most successful club, are desperate to return to the AFC Champions League, which they have not won since 2011. Cesar, who he coached during his time at Inter and Lazio, and former striker Massimo Maccarone will also follow him to Doha to make their contribution to the project. Therefore, Mancini will return to manage a club team again, something that has not happened since the 2017/2018 season, which ended with the termination of the contract binding him. Zenit St.
The former Italian national team coach, who had long been talked about returning to Italy on the bench of Atalanta, Fiorentina or Juventus, decided to give in to the adulation of the Qatari club and signed a clearly profitable agreement.
There is talk of a two-and-a-half-year contract, although media in the country have indicated in recent hours that the agreement is essentially split into two parts. The first is the one that will see Mancini take control of Al-Sadd immediately after the international break and over the next six months, where he will collect 5 million eurosbonuses and incentives are not included. The second is the one that gives him a two-year contract at the end of this season with double the salary, with a salary of 10 million which will make him the highest paid coach in Asia.
The Qatari club, which has emerged from a negative period, hopes to bounce back thanks to the wealth of experience of the former Nerazzurri coach, who will make his official debut in the match scheduled for November 25 in the United Arab Emirates against Al-Wahda, which is valid for the AFC Champions League.
Mancio, presented on the official Al-Sadd website, can get cash almost 30
millions from his experience over two and a half seasons. This is his second highest salary, second only to that received on the Saudi Arabian bench with a salary of 25 million per season.
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Roberto Mancini has signed a contract as Al-Sadd coach for 2.5 seasons.
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