Manager Of The Year

Chong Warrior said:
Exactamundo! No doubting he's done well but if Harry gets 7 years at Spurs I want CL football out of him.... manager of the season for being in 6th place? Pfffftt, just barely enough to keep his job I reckon..
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They you actually have no idea the difference in level and spending between the top 4 clubs and the rest. The gulf is huge to maintain a squad and get results.

All that would happen with spurs if they qualified next year for the CL is the same as everton when they did. They got knocked out early and the extra games became a toll on a small squad.

Even in the 7 years moyes has been there he has had bad seasons, for a few years he had a bad one following a good. It shows that fans shouldn't be so quick to get managers the boot and having the consistency has helped everton. The trouble is clubs like Newcastle, Spurs and previously Everton failed to see that. They still lived in this imaginary bubble of being a big club. This ended up with managers getting the boot. Luckily we now have a chairman that understands the realistic goals of a club of our size and wealth.
 
Hiddink has done well to pick players up although i agree it was a world class squad and it wasn't the worst of starting positions.

Half way through the season for me it would have been Brown and O'neil. However they seem to both be on poor streaks at the moment so probably overall Moyes or Pullis.

Hodgson and Zola also get a mention for making their sides do pretty darn well quietly and efficiently.
 
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Up until december I would have said the tanman Phil Brown.
Since the wheels have catastrophically fallen off at Hull, my money would go to Pulis if he manages to keep them up. He bought Beattie for relative small change and he has given them a proper cutting edge.

I can understand the thinking with Moyes, but other teams have managers who don't wave blank cheques around as well so have to manage with what they have got.
 
I find it strange to see that Alex Ferguson's not been mentioned at all. I think a lot of the names mentioned here to deserve to be up there and possibly above him, with Moyes, Pullis and Hodgson being my Premiership picks.

I know it's a couple of if's but if Man U win the Premiership and Champions League then he's done the Treble (Quad if you count the World Club Cup... which i don't) and got to the semi final of the FA Cup. People will say that he has the huge financial resources, great squad etc but so do Chelsea, Liverpool, Barca, Real and Inter but none of them have even been in contention for winning the amount Man U has. I just don't think the top four should be overlooked just because they're the top four
 
y2viks said:
I find it strange to see that Alex Ferguson's not been mentioned at all. I think a lot of the names mentioned here to deserve to be up there and possibly above him, with Moyes, Pullis and Hodgson being my Premiership picks.

I know it's a couple of if's but if Man U win the Premiership and Champions League then he's done the Treble (Quad if you count the World Club Cup... which i don't) and got to the semi final of the FA Cup. People will say that he has the huge financial resources, great squad etc but so do Chelsea, Liverpool, Barca, Real and Inter but none of them have even been in contention for winning the amount Man U has. I just don't think the top four should be overlooked just because they're the top four
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I think the reason why people overlook the top four is because its difficult to assess the impact of the manager in the top four teams. As you rightly say their financial resources and squads are so impressive that sometimes its awkward to see what effect the manager is having. If you like, its a bit like trying to discern which is having the greater impact in formula one, the drivers skill or the particular car he is in.

Could the big four managers "manage" a smaller team with limited resources with such effect?

For me personally it is more impressive when a manager does really well with very limited funds and a distinctly average squad of players than when he does really well with a few hundred million and a squad of superstars at his disposal.
 
^ I agree plus as has been shown this year arsenal can play utter turd in the premier league and still have the last CL slot sown up with 10 games to go. The gap to everyone else is large.
 
y2viks said:
I find it strange to see that Alex Ferguson's not been mentioned at all. I think a lot of the names mentioned here to deserve to be up there and possibly above him, with Moyes, Pullis and Hodgson being my Premiership picks.

I know it's a couple of if's but if Man U win the Premiership and Champions League then he's done the Treble (Quad if you count the World Club Cup... which i don't) and got to the semi final of the FA Cup. People will say that he has the huge financial resources, great squad etc but so do Chelsea, Liverpool, Barca, Real and Inter but none of them have even been in contention for winning the amount Man U has. I just don't think the top four should be overlooked just because they're the top four
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Ferguson so far this year has had the team playing some truly awful football, has wasted money on the biggest flop in Premiership history and has spent an absolute fortune.
 
Benitez if Liverpool win the league, otherwise Hodgson. Although if Chelsea suddenly pull through for a treble Hiddink might not be a bad shout despite only being around for half a season...
 
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... Actually, i'd vote Hodgson. He's pulled off some very good results with Fulham this season and has even surprised me in terms of their league position. He's doing well there.
 
y2viks said:
I know it's a couple of if's but if Man U win the Premiership and Champions League then he's done the Treble (Quad if you count the World Club Cup)
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Can't do the treble now, in my eyes, the Treble is the top 3 trophies, we're out of one of them now, so you have to draw a level at where you count trophies. I remember when Liverpool fans tried to claim they'd done 'the treble', or even 'the quintuple', despite not winning the CL or EPL :p.
 
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