If we’re just purely talking the Premier League as a sole comp:
1. Howe
2. Arteta
3. De Zerbi
I’ve chosen based on who has lifted their team to overachieve the most this season. Newcastle breaking top 4 really is amazing from Howe this early into his tenure and given it’s a concrete achievement, I put it over Arteta’s title challenge (and subsequent bottling of their 1st position). Honourable mention has to be O’Neill as 90% of people would have had Bournemouth to go down and he did the unthinkable. As I wrote this I’d be tempted to give him the 3rd spot over De Zerbi who got Brighton into Europe for the first time in their history and doing so playing great football.
If we’re talking the best Premier League club manager across all comps, then for me that’s slightly different:
1. Guardiola (if they do the double or treble)
2. Ten Hag
3. Howe
If Pep does the treble, credit where credits die, it’s him. Yes, he has the best squad in the world but to do what he’s done (chase Arsenal down, smack Madrid, close out the CL and FA (big if obvs) is a unique achievement. Second has to be Ten Hag, getting top 4 and a trophy (and potentially another) is a fantastic season and turnaround considering how people predicted our season would go (especially after the first two games), not to mention doing the above with the whole CR7 drama and effectively not replacing him. Howe 3rd, as above and the fact he got Newcastle to their first Wembley trip in goodness knows how long.