Quiz! Can you name the 50 biggest-spending current managers over their careers?

Officially, managers don’t make signings these days. It’s club owners, or chief execs, or directors of football (stop rolling your eyes, Arsene). Also, they're probably all decided by some super agent, when he’s not busy diving into big vault of money like Scrooge McDuck.

Yet there’s no doubt managers generally benefit from clubs splashing cash while they’re there – and these 50 gaffers have benefited more than the rest since the year 2000*. Most (but not all) have had a spell in the Premier League, as you’d probably suspect. Some have been active since 2000, which helps explain their high totals - while others have just enjoyed a lavish outlay in a short time.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.