Your current top 10 Premier League managers

[pigge]

I would trade him tomorrow and throw in his German soyboy love interest Kai

You don't rate Arteta at all? He did get us back from being nobodies to challenge for the title

 

[Farzad Stoned]

You don't rate Arteta at all? He did get us back from being nobodies to challenge for the title

Your problem is you think we were nobodies. We finished one point out of 4th year before and had Saliba, Saka, Martinelli all on books killing it for youngsters. Plus we got one of the richest owners and biggest fanbases in world. One losing slump under Emery didn’t make a 120 year institutional bank of Football nobodies. You bought the PR i am sad to say my dear Gooner friend

 

[pigge]

Your problem is you think we were nobodies. We finished one point out of 4th year before and had Saliba, Saka, Martinelli all on books killing it for youngsters. Plus we got one of the richest owners and biggest fanbases in world. One losing slump under Emery didn’t make a 120 year institutional bank of Football nobodies. You bought the PR i am sad to say my dear Gooner friend

It was hyperbolic, in the case of challenging for the title we were never close to doing it, being around 25-30 points of the title winners for 5+ years, which really was my point.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

It was hyperbolic, in the case of challenging for the title we were never close to doing it, being around 25-30 points of the title winners for 5+ years, which really was my point.

It doesn’t take half a decade almost and a billion in transfers to make a big club championship ready. Look at Klopp, look at Spalletti, look at Ange. They know what they are doing and our manager is still emotionally falling in and out of love with players for reasons that have nothing to do with play but where they rate as Mik’s pets

 

[pigge]

It doesn’t take half a decade almost and a billion in transfers to make a big club championship ready. Look at Klopp, look at Spalletti, look at Ange. They know what they are doing and our manager is still emotionally falling in and out of love with players for reasons that have nothing to do with play but where they rate as Mik’s pets

I mean that's just ur assumption, obviously you have no idea about any of that .

Neither do I ofc. But I don't think it's reasonable to randomly assume these things, it's quite extreme imo.

edit: I would agree that he's new to managing though and is probably figuring some things out

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I mean that's just ur assumption, obviously you have no idea about any of that .

Neither do I ofc. But I don't think it's reasonable to randomly assume these things, it's quite extreme imo.

edit: I would agree that he's new to managing though and is probably figuring some things out

I don’t need assumptions i look at Bozo the Mik’s actions. I swear to god this Boffhead wouldn’t recognize a good team sheet if the Lord Almighty spoke to him and miracled it to him. Just open your eyes you know football, tell me how dumb you have to be to move Jesus to the wing, to accommodate Eddie and Kai? How bad do you have to be at rating players to watch Holding for 3.5 years everyday and figure out that you can’t trust him at Anfield or Etihad or anywhere in the league let alone a title run. The guy gets emotionally into and out of love with players like a teenage girl not a blooming gaffer

 

[SA Gunner]

December 2023

Spoiler

Pep, Klopp, Emery, Potch, Arteta

 

[OnlyOne]

Pep
Klopp
Mikel
T Frank
Zerbi/Emery
Hagn
O Neil
Rest of Em

 

[Makingtrax]

What’s clear is that managers can have niches at different levels of spending. Guardiola is obviously very good given a massive budget but whether he’s be as good as Thomas. Frank spending a pittance is very debatable. So it’s a bit of a nonsense thread.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

What’s clear is that managers can have niches at different levels of spending. Guardiola is obviously very good given a massive budget but whether he’s be as good as Thomas. Frank spending a pittance is very debatable. So it’s a bit of a nonsense thread.

Or is he given a massive budget because he is very good

 

[ArsenesCoatMaker]

December 2023

Spoiler

Pep, Klopp, Emery, Potch, Arteta

Rory's a massive clickbait fraud. Reckons Arsenal will win the League for clicks. Yet rates Arteta behind Emery. Try to make sense of it. Also has AbouCellular being banned? I tried to @ him so he could tell us how bad Emery was at Valencia

 

[AberGooner]

Currently Klopp still the best for me followed by Guardiola, Arteta, Emery and Howe. O'Neil building an impressive CV though.

 

[db10_therza]

Pep
Klopp
Mikel
T Frank
Zerbi/Emery
Hagn
O Neil
Rest of Em

Didn’t clock this at first take

 

[Macho]

December 2023

Spoiler

Pep, Klopp, Emery, Potch, Arteta

Pep
Klopp
Mikel
T Frank
Zerbi/Emery
Hagn
O Neil
Rest of Em

 

[OnlyOne]

Great album.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

1. Mikel
2: Thomas Frank
3. Klopp
4. Pep

 

[Farzad Stoned]

1.klopp
2. Pep
3. Emery
4. Poc
5. De zerbi
6. Frank
7. Eth
8. Silva
9. O’neill
10. Anyone who doesn’t rate Kai

 

[Makingtrax]

Or is he given a massive budget because he is very good

Since 2008, all City managers have been given a massive budget, regardless of whether they were any good or not. It's got something to do with oil. Have a think.

 

[db10_therza]

Since 2008, all City managers have been given a massive budget, regardless of whether they were any good or not. It's got something to do with oil. Have a think.

Your original point about it being hard to compare managers and different ends of the spectrum was spot on.

It’s a bit like trying to compare Saliba and Saka. Both are excellent but you can’t really compare them - they have completely different jobs to do.

For me, Pep is an utterly brilliant manager who would slot in just under the goats like Cruyff in the all-time bracket. Not because of his success, but because he will leave a legacy on football for a very very very long time. Regardless of whether you enjoy it or not, his chapter in the compendium of the tactical side of the game is assured.

I mean we are currently enjoying the fruits of his legacy right now fgs.

 

[Dokaka]

Right now for top 5 I'd probably go:

Klopp
Pep
Emery
Mikel
Poch

But the list would change depending on the club hiring. If I'm the biggest club in the country, I'd take Pep. If I was just below that, Klopp etc. Emery is brilliant at the underdog/EL level but has a ceiling with his style of football. Mikel is still a bit raw and hasn't done enough yet to justify putting him above Emery, but he's a much better fit for a top club.