Ruben Amorim’s Net Worth (2024) at Manchester United

Ruben Amorim is one of the hottest names in football coaching today as Manchester United’s head coach, having built a solid reputation with his work with Braga, then Sporting Lisbon, who he guided to a 4-1 victory over Manchester City in the Champions League.

He has been nicknamed the poet by Cristiano Ronaldo for the way he addresses his players and the media. But he also has an acquired lifestyle that his career has enabled him to have, having had a successful playing career. He won the Portuguese title three times with Benfica, as well as earning 14 caps with the national team, before embarking on a coaching career aged only 33.

It will not come as any surprise that one of Amorim’s coaching idols is Jose Mourinho, who has had a hugely successful career and is estimated to have a net worth just shy of £100m. Yet Amorim’s rise as a head coach is probably more mercurial than his hero, rising to one of the most well-sought-after football jobs in the world after only six years as a coach. His yearly salary and net worth have grown with that rise.

Net Worth

Amorim is estimated to have a net worth of around £13m. In the scheme of things at the highest level of football, that is of course somewhat lower than, say, the net worth of Lionel Messi, which is rumoured to be in the region of $600m.

Of course, Messi is one of the finest footballers ever, playing at a time when the game has never had such salaries and commercial endorsements. Although a sought-after coach, some of Amorim’s net worth would have no doubt been generated by his salary as a player, particularly with Braga and Benfica, at a time when the latter were regular title winners, competing in European competitions – Amorim was in the Benfica midfield when they lost the 2014 Europa League Final on penalties to Unai Emery’s Sevilla.

Amorim was in demand at an early stage in his coaching career, which certainly helped add to his net worth. This journey was very much gaining traction when he was promoted from being the coach of Braga’s B side to the first side, which in 2020 saw them beat Porto in the Portuguese League Final with a goal in injury time. Sporting Lisbon had been taking notes, swiftly making an offer for his services and paying highly for them.

Sporting ended up paying £8.4m for Amorim’s services in 2020, despite the fact he didn’t yet have a UEFA Pro License. The club was ridiculed by some for taking such a gamble, as at the time, it made Amorim one of the most expensive managers in football history, despite at the time only having coached for just two years. Of course, just four years later, Manchester United paid more than £9m to bring him to Old Trafford.

Man Utd Salary

He is one of the highest-paid managers in the world

Amorim’s move to England to manage Manchester United catapulted him into the top 15 highest-paid managers in world football. His annual take home at Old Trafford is believed to be £6.5m. Pep Guardiola is reported to be at the top of that list with an annual salary of £20m, with Amorim believed to be in twelfth place, ahead of Xabi Alonso of Leverkusen, Simone Inzaghi of Inter and Thomas Tuchel of England, with an annual wage in England of £6.5m.

That figure would most likely be Amorim’s basic salary and he no doubt has a variety of bonuses that could be earned if he were to hit certain milestones, with perhaps the most obvious being to get Manchester United lifting silverware and once again finish in the top four and to qualify for the Champions League.