The rumours linking Patrice Carteron as the next coach of Mamelodi Sundowns will mean the league champions have to iron out the biggest contract ever for a coach at the club.
Mokwena is now reportedly expected to get out of the highly fancied Sundowns following a complicated working relationship with the club's sporting director Flemming Berg.
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As is the norm, wildfire speculation has had Carteron top of the list of those linked with the job.
The cost of bringing Carteron will stretch the finances of Sundowns to levels never reached before even when Pitso Mosimane was at Chloorkop.
Mosimane was on R1,5 million per month in his last contract, which he abandoned in favour of a move to Al Ahly four years ago.
Not even Nasreddine Nabi's salary of 40 000 Euros (approx. R796 000) at Kaizer Chiefs will come anywhere close to what the 53-year-old will ask for.
This website has been told that Carteron earns USD1,4 million (approx. R26 million) per annum at Umm Salal SC in Qatar.
This is almost thrice what Nabi will earn at Chiefs.
Getting Carteron out of his contract in the Qatar Stars League will also come at a cost after completing his first season in charge with a seventh-place finish.
To take the Sundowns job it will mean the DStv Premiership champions improve his earnings.
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Through the last decade, Carteron has had jobs at TP Mazembe (DR Congo), Wadi Degla (Egypt), Al-Nassr (Saudi Arabia), Phoenix Rising (USA), Al Ahly (Egypt), Raja Casablanca (Morocco), Zamalek (Egypt), Al-Taawoun (Saudi Arabia), Zamalek again, Al-Ettifaq (Saudi Arabia), and his latest at Umm Salal.
Carteron has been linked with South African clubs before after indicating his desire to work in the DStv Premiership.
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