Also to Gary O'Neil who did well to keep Bournemouth up comfortably.
Your Premier League manager of the season?
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De Zerbi - implementing attractive play style immediately while coming late to the league
Arteta - give Pep a run for his money without star player
Howe - Built a resilient team, truly an underdog, and managed to get a UCL spot
I'm surprised that some of you think Pep and EtH are in contention for Manager of the Year.
Pep has a freak goalscorer, and EtH has spent almost 200 mil for 3 players.
Arteta - give Pep a run for his money without star player
Howe - Built a resilient team, truly an underdog, and managed to get a UCL spot
I'm surprised that some of you think Pep and EtH are in contention for Manager of the Year.
Pep has a freak goalscorer, and EtH has spent almost 200 mil for 3 players.
Howe………..but I am biased!!
Despite all the sackings I'd say half of the prem managers have done really good jobs this season (based on expectations in August).
I had Bournemouth finishing rock bottom Norwich style so for O'Neill to keep them up with 3-4 games left is minor miracle so personally would give him MOTY.
Steve Cooper also done incredibly well to make sense of their 200 signings and keep them up.
Lopetegui coming in and keeping Wolves up with something to spare wasn't certain at all as they simply had no goals in the team when he came in.
Thomas Frank and De Zerbi doing outstanding work as has Emery.
I wouldn't dismiss Ten Haag either. Man. United on their knees after losing at Brentford early on but he quickly sorted out Ronaldo and got him out of the club and there's a good spine forming now with Varane-Martinez-Casemiro-Rashford so far more of an identity than in last 3-4 years.
I had Bournemouth finishing rock bottom Norwich style so for O'Neill to keep them up with 3-4 games left is minor miracle so personally would give him MOTY.
Steve Cooper also done incredibly well to make sense of their 200 signings and keep them up.
Lopetegui coming in and keeping Wolves up with something to spare wasn't certain at all as they simply had no goals in the team when he came in.
Thomas Frank and De Zerbi doing outstanding work as has Emery.
I wouldn't dismiss Ten Haag either. Man. United on their knees after losing at Brentford early on but he quickly sorted out Ronaldo and got him out of the club and there's a good spine forming now with Varane-Martinez-Casemiro-Rashford so far more of an identity than in last 3-4 years.
IF city win the treble then there can be only 1 winner.
Pep
Eddie how
Arteta
ETH
Emery
Eddie how
Arteta
ETH
Emery
Frank lampard or Potter for not getting this chelsea team relegated.
1. Eddie Howe
2. Pep Guardiola
3. Gary O'Neal
They've been the most impressive to me but I think there have been a lot of great managers this season. Emery, Arteta, Marco Silva, De Zerbi, Thomas Frank and ETH have all had very good seasons.
2. Pep Guardiola
3. Gary O'Neal
They've been the most impressive to me but I think there have been a lot of great managers this season. Emery, Arteta, Marco Silva, De Zerbi, Thomas Frank and ETH have all had very good seasons.
Guardiola. Put a long winning run together when he needed it and made it look easy, which it isn't when you are simultaneously in 2 other competitions.
Honourable mentions: Arteta, ETH, Howe, De Zerbi, Emery.
Honourable mentions: Arteta, ETH, Howe, De Zerbi, Emery.
Lampard…. got to admire his consistency
1. Eddie Howe
2. De Zerbi / ETH / Arteta
Maybe Lopategui should get a shout.
2. De Zerbi / ETH / Arteta
Maybe Lopategui should get a shout.
Eddie Howe seriously? After spending over 300m.
1) Howe
2) Emery
3) Arteta
2) Emery
3) Arteta
Partly expectations, he got them to a cup final and they've qualified for the CL and are a very hard team to beat, not to many of us were expecting all that, I doubt many barcodes were either
Has to be Lampard
Easy to do when you have 2 starting XIs.
We could have 2 starting elevens, but we would first need to employ the right people to reach the quality required
De Zerbi. Brighton were good and competent under Potter. RDZ took them to another level. They dominate every game in possession and chance creation terms. It’s ridiculous.
People didn't expect Arteta to push citeh all the way to the last month either. I'm fine with his nomination but not sure about topping the list. And I'm pretty sure top 6 was the expectation for them, there was a thread here last summer iirc.
Pep - Treble contender/potential winner, totally dominate all the competitions, despite having unlimited resources
Arteta - no one expect them being leading contender for the title for most part of the season, and playing such brand of attacking football
Howe - absolutely no one expect them to finish top 4, not even their own fans would have dreamed that
Honouranle mention
De Zerbi - playing the best brand of football with limited resource
Ten Hag - leading a disjointed side to top 4 finish and 2 cups finals, cup winner too, despite having nearly unlimited resouves
Arteta - no one expect them being leading contender for the title for most part of the season, and playing such brand of attacking football
Howe - absolutely no one expect them to finish top 4, not even their own fans would have dreamed that
Honouranle mention
De Zerbi - playing the best brand of football with limited resource
Ten Hag - leading a disjointed side to top 4 finish and 2 cups finals, cup winner too, despite having nearly unlimited resouves
Don't disagree about Arteta pushing City as much as they did but I think top 4 was a fair expectation, I wasn't on here last summer so haven't seen that thread, but you can see the steady improvement they've made over Arteta's tenure
We know it’s going to Pep
Why not? Still better than Ten Haag who inherited expensive squad and spent 250M ontop of it
Objectively speaking
Lampard.
Roy Hodgson gets my vote
300 million euros looks like a lot at a glance; however, after I take a look in more detail, I think Newcastle has made quite a sensible acquisition.
Alexander Isak €70.00m
Anthony Gordon €45.60m
Sven Botman €37.00m
Matt Targett €17.50m
Nick Pope €11.50m
Bruno Guimarães €42.10m
Chris Wood €30.00m
Joe Willock €29.40m
Dan Burn €15.00m
Kieran Trippier €14.00m
They pay expensive price for young, first team player such as Isak, Gordon, Botman, Willock, and Guimares and fill the gap with the cheaper options.
The only dud is Chris Wood, but they already moved him to Nott. Forest.
I can't recall a season in recent memory in which there are 6-8 managers who are quite positively credited by their fanbases:
Pep
Arteta (still, and rightly so)
ETH
Howe
De Zerbi
Emery
Cooper
and probably to a lesser extent, but still:
Hodgson
Frank
Dyche if they stay up?
Howe gets my vote, anyway,
Pep
Arteta (still, and rightly so)
ETH
Howe
De Zerbi
Emery
Cooper
and probably to a lesser extent, but still:
Hodgson
Frank
Dyche if they stay up?
Howe gets my vote, anyway,
Howe for sure. Pep expected to win, 100 points should be the target. De Zerbi took over Potter's work. Will see what he's made of after a couple more seasons. Can't blame Potter for Chelsea either, on the owners.
Howe and Potter give hope we'll eventuallly finally have an English Premier league winning manager.
Howe and Potter give hope we'll eventuallly finally have an English Premier league winning manager.
Prem Managers ahead of EtH in the Queue for Manager Of The Season:: Pep, Arteta, Howe, De Zerbi, Emery, da Silva, Frank,, O’Neill, Hodgson, Lepetegui. And Moyes even if they win.that cup.
De Zerbi.
Might as well throw in Lampard too.
Woy Hodgson
Think Howe has a good chance of getting it. I personally think De Zerbi has done a great job though, took points of all the top teams in the league, plays a great brand of football.
Hodgson, moyes and lopeteguiNot sarcastic:
mickey mouse cup and 3rd ( with lpool off the boil and chelsea imploding) is a medicicre achievement and relatively less impressive than: peps steamroller, arteta’s challenge, howe’s CL qualification, de zerbis zest, emerys improvement, frank’s solidity, da silvas surprise, and oneills/hodgsons/lepeteguis firefighting.
mickey mouse cup and 3rd ( with lpool off the boil and chelsea imploding) is a medicicre achievement and relatively less impressive than: peps steamroller, arteta’s challenge, howe’s CL qualification, de zerbis zest, emerys improvement, frank’s solidity, da silvas surprise, and oneills/hodgsons/lepeteguis firefighting.
The only reason we not saying pep is cause he is too good to win it so make things look easy.
Pep is quite realistically about to win the treble and your questioning why folks are putting him Down as Manager of the year??
Wobble your head
I don’t care if you think “he’s got the resources”
Many managers have had wonderful resources over the years across Europe and achieved bugger all with it.
in no particular order
Howe
Emery
De Zerbi
Steve Cooper
Gary O’Neal
have all done extraordinary though imo, absolutely utterly extraordinary
Arteta did well, coming 2nd is still pretty good going securing Champions league, but bottling the league towards the end and bowing out of all other competitions leaves it imo as a more relatively good season rather than extraordinary
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Gotta be Pep if they win the treble.
If they don't, Howe or De Zerbi.
If they don't, Howe or De Zerbi.
How can you jnclude Pep? I’ve played Football Manager on cheat mode and it is hard not to win everything
…and it will be just as meaningless as their trophies……