Any football owner in the world who is interested in profit, and not so much in the results of it’s team (and there are plenty of those in football right now) should attempt to sign Diego Simeone as their coach at all costs. The current Atletico Madrid long time manager not only knows how to win (he is currently La Liga champion), but also knows how to make money out of player sale. The Argentinian is in his tenth season as Atletico coach, and before that he managed Racing Club (twice), Estudiantes, River Plate, San Lorenzo and Catania. A study published by the well-known website Transfermarkt says that during his managerial career, Simeone managed to earn a whopping 129 billion Ksh out of players sale!Diego Simeone is the coach who has generated the most money with sales and transfers of players in the 21st century. He generated a total of €1bn.😳😳😳[📸 via @TMes_news] pic.twitter.com/g2qM7ZgTrD— Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) September 10, 2021 Popular ’Cholo’ participated in 83 transfers as a coach, and the biggest earnings are attributed to him for the summer of 2019, when Atletico sold Antoine Griezmann to Barcelona for 15.5 billion Ksh. Just two weeks earlier, Lucas Hernandez was transferred to Bayern Munich for 10 billion. Both are among the 25 biggest transfers of all time, and during Simeone’s era on the bench, Atletico made eight of the ten biggest sales in the club’s history. After Griezmann and Hernandez, Rodri is in the third place, who was sold to Manchester City for 8.1 billion. Clearly, the Argentine made the biggest profit for Atletico Madrid, whome he coaches for 10 years and counting. Out of the mentioned 83 players, the first 28 are related to Madrid, and the 29th is Jose Sosa, with whose departure to Bayern Munich in 2007, Estudiantes earned 1.1 billion Ksh.(7.25) ALAVES (3.80) ATLETICO (1.60)And while there are other coaches who won more thophies than Simeone, when it comes to ’sell players for profit’ list, Diego is so far the unquestioned leader. He left behind some managerial giants like Jose Mourinho (100 billion), Carlo Ancelotti (98 billion), Rafael Benitez (86 billion) and even transfer guru Arsene Wenger (81 billion). The only other manager who can come close to Cholo is Leonardo Jardim, who made most of his 124 billion from Monaco player sale, where he was a coach from 2014 to 2018. During that time, his most profitable (and high profile sales) included the likes of Kylian Mbappe, James Rodriguez, Thomas Lemar, Anthony Martial, Benjamin Mendy, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho and many others.Most profitable coaches:Diego Simeone – 129 billion Ksh (83 players)Leonardo Jardim – 124 billion (63 players)Jose Mourinho – 100 billion (94 players)Carlo Ancelotti – 98 billion (99 players)Massimiliano Allegri – 93.6 billion (113 players)Jorge Jesus – 93.3 billion (121 players)Rafael Benitez – 86 billion (100 players)Ronald Koeman – 85 billion (63 players)Pep Guardiola – 83 billion (74 players)Arsene Wenger – 81 billion (94 players)
