Pep Guardiola Roman Abramovic is ready to hand super-coach Pep Guardiola a four-year deal worth £40million AFTER TAX to become Chelsea boss. The club\'s billionaire Russian owner refuses to give up on his quest to lure Barcelona\'s all-conquering manager.
And that includes making Guardiola the highest-paid boss in the world with a money-no-object offer worth £10m a year in cash, according to one Blues insider.
Guardiola\'s Nou Camp deal is up at the end of the season and Abramovich will not call off the chase while the manager leaves his future up in the air.
He currently earns around £8m a year NET at Barca but Rom can eclipse that with his staggering offer.
Sacked Andre Villas-Boas was paid about £4.5m a year and Chelsea coughed up £13m compensation to his previous club Porto to release him last summer.
When you add AVB\'s £9m-plus pay-off, it means Abramovich has forked out in excess of £2BILLION since taking over at Stamford Bridge only nine years ago.
If he persuades Guardiola, 41, to become his EIGHTH boss, Abramovich will have spent almost £150m on managers alone in wages, compensations and pay-offs.
The other bosses who have cashed in along with AVB are Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luis Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti.
While Chelsea struggle off the pitch for a new manager, Gary Cahill is sounding a battle cry on it.
The England centre-back said: \"We will roll our sleeves up and go again because we have huge games coming up in the next week or so.\"