Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho becomes the first manager in football history to spend £1BILLION
MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho has officially become the first manager in football history to spend £1BILLION on transfers.
Former Chelsea and Real Madrid chief has spent £1.1bn in the transfer market, eclipsing the likes of Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola.
Manchester City chief Guardiola may have been the most active boss of the summer, spending over £200million already on the likes of Kyle Walker and Bernardo Silva.
However, it's Mourinho who became the first to reach the ten-figure mark after a trio of big-money signings this summer.
So far, United have splashed £75m on Romelu Lukaku, £40m on Nemanja Matic and a further £31m on Victor Lindelof.
Those three stars cost Mourinho a total sum of £146m, pushing the Special One past the £1bn figure.
The United boss has now spent £1.1bn in 17 years of management, ahead of now-Bayern Munich boss Ancelotti - who's spent £970m in 22 years.
However, it's Guardiola's whose sum is most incredible, after spending £859m in just NINE years.
Football's all-time biggest spenders
1. Jose Mourinho - £1.1bn (17 years)
2. Carlo Ancelotti - £970m (22 years)
3. Pep Guardiola - £859m (9 years)
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Jose Mourinho's most expensive signings
Paul Pogba - £89m
Romelu Lukaku - 75m
Nemanja Matic - £40m
Diego Costa - £35m
Luka Modric - £33m
Victor Lindelof - £31m
Willian - £30m
Cesc Fabregas - £30m
Eric Bailly - £30m
Andriy Shevchenko - £30m
Mourinho's biggest-money signing ever came last summer - in his first season at Old Trafford - in the then-world-record £89m deal for Paul Pogba from Juventus.
However, the Special One has also made a host of other big-money moves, including £33m splashed on former Tottenham man Luka Modric in his Real Madrid days.
Diego Costa set Mourinho back £35m, while Willian, Cesc Fabreagas, Eric Bailly and Andriy Shevchenko all cost the Portuguese chief £30m.