So today we learned two things about former club managers today. Roberto Di Matteo is getting paid £130,000 a week for not managing Chelsea, and elsewhere it has emerged that Roy Hodgson refused to accept any wages during his second stint in charge of Inter Milan.
Actually, I tell a lie. While he declined any money for his job, he did concede that he'd accept payment in the form of opera tickets.
Yes, when Inter president, Massimo Moratti, approached Hodgson in 1999 to come back as caretaker manager, Roy decided he'd do it as a favour. Moratti tells The Sun:
'He didn’t want to be paid, and it was for one month or something. He told me ‘no, no, no, I don’t want to be paid by you. I do it because we are friends and you need me.’
'I asked him ‘please, I don’t want you to do it without anything from my side. I insisted, and he told me ‘if you insist, I have to say that I will have tickets for La Scala.'
Reports that he is being paid 10 packets of Hobnobs and an hour per week go-karting voucher for managing England have proved unfounded.
hat-tip: Who Ate All The Pies
