Jose Mourinho becomes first manager in football history to hit £1bn landmark in career transfer spending
- Jose Mourinho passed the £1bn landmark with £75m signing of Romelu Lukaku
- The Manchester United manager has spent just over £1.1bn in his 17-year career
- Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has spent £859m in little over half the time
- Carlo Ancelotti is the only other manager who comes close with £970m spent
Jose Mourinho has become the first manager in football history to take his career transfer spending past £1billion- and passed that landmark during the current window when he signed Romelu Lukaku.
Analysis of the Manchester United manager’s all-time spending shows he has now spent just over £1.1bn in 17 years as a boss.
Pep Guardiola, Mourinho’s nemesis in Spain and current cross-city rival in Manchester, has spent £859m, in a little over half the time.
Current Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has spent £1.1bn in 17 years as a manager
Our calculations took the pound sterling values at the time of each transaction into account for consistency.
Mourinho and Guardiola are both considered among the all-time great managers - though both have had massive resources to play with for much of their managerial careers.
The only other manager who comes close to their spending is Bayern Munich manager Carlo Ancelotti, with Chelsea one of nine clubs he has managed in 22 years, spending £970m gross to date.
Pep Guardiola speaks with one of his costliest buys in training - £54million man Kyle Walker
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