Jose Boring Mourinho has won it, unsurprisingly. He successfully earned a couple of extra point this season by removing any excitement from the second half of the season. What a hero. Has there really been any competition for this award this season? Not amongst the top teams, for me. Koeman at Southampton, Pardew at Palace or Pulis at West Brom, once you're past the bigger spenders. Gary Monk's probably worth a shout too, as he's had a very impressive start with Swansea. I thought he'd be totally out of his depth, to be honest, but he's got results and played good football.
Should've been between Monk and Koeman, both have been outstanding, exceeding expectation. All Jose has done is meet expectation, the club's always expected to challenge for the title and this season they were clear favourites and as no other side will have even managed 80 points it was the easiest title he'll ever win.
Nigel Pearson should've been in with a shout: Leicester looked dead and buried in March, but their turnaround since then has been nothing short of phenomenal - especially when you consider they didn't end a seven-game winless streak against us, like so many other teams have over the years, before their revival started. Add to that some impressive results: coming from 3-1 down at Old Trafford to win 5-3, coming from 2-0 down at Anfield against twelve men to draw 2-2, and the 2-0 wins against Swansea and Southampton in recent weeks that hauled them clear of the relegation zone to secure their place in the PL for next season. But apparently boring fans senseless while acting like a tart, funded by an almost bottomless pit of money, is more impressive...
He is also the Manager that got them into that situation. IMO Mnk should have got it. With the Swans coming again even after Bony was sold.
Koeman first, Monk Second. Koeman because he came into a league he has never been in before to manage a club who had just lost half it`s first team, he still managed to put up a fight for top four right up to the last month of the season. Monk because.........who would have thought it, well done Gary
Koeman every day. If he'd come into Spurs, had to sell most of our best players, bought in a load of players new to the league and then ended up improving us...well I think I'd be calling him, on that season at least, our best manager for decades. We all acclimatised to it after a couple of months but just remember how doomed most people thought Southampton were and how astonished we all were when they got off to the start they had - and they've not fallen off over the course of a season. At the very least he's done a far better job than Jose. Jose has basically ticked the boxes and done his job efficiently. As someone already said - to seriously challenge for the title when you have unlimited funds and all your rivals are in a bit of a mess is par for the course for me.
Koeman's done a great job and should definitely have been up there. Monk's done really well, too, a lot of talk about Soton selling players but Swans also lost Vorm, Davies, Chico, Hernandez and then Bony in January so they didn't have it easy. Pearson has performed a miracle with Leicester over the past couple of months so he also deserves to be in with a shout. Mourinho done what was expected with Chelsea and done it in a fashion that no neutral would enjoy, there's no doubting Jose is the best manager in the League but I I think one of the other managers I've mentioned should've won the award, they've done better than what was expected of them and have thus exceeded expectations which I think is deserving of an award over someone who's done what was expected with a world class side at his disposal.
Boring, but effective. Mourinho knows how to win like Boycott knew how to bat. Grudgingly, you have to admire his skill. Monk, Koeman & Pearson all deserve praise. So do Allardyce & Hughes, although they may not be popular choices. Pulis always does well. Sherwood had a brief , but successful cameo at Villa. Carver may be out of his depth. He's a good coach and should be judged as such. The players Pardew recruited are to blame and clearly don't want to play for Newcastle. Worst manager is Rodgers- by a mile. You can't sell your (far and away) best player and buy a dozen or more mediocre ones and expect to improve. I can't understand how he's avoided the sack. He's rubbish. 'Arry left QPR in a mess (too many old players) and Bruce has underperformed given that he had some money to spend and has bought both experienced and half decent players. He might yet have an acceptable season at Newcastle's expense. Wenger continues to make the same mistakes. It's been like groundhog day for 10 years. He overlooks blatant weaknesses whilst stockpiling players of a certain type. He bought a top class player in Sanchez, whose goals have helped Arsenal improve marginally. He could have spent the same money on a top class holding midfielder or defender and they would have improved significantly. Van Gaal is having to overhaul his squad quickly and by acquiring players who are likely to be immediately successful. That is a very difficult task on that scale at any club. It remains to be seen whether he succeeds. He achieved the bare minimum expected of him this season - as did Pochettino (aided by the sudden blossoming of some young players, not least Kane), & Martinez. Dyche did as well as could be expected.
Monk, Koeman and Pearson all did extremely well. I'm inclined to rank them in that order perhaps because Koeman doing a great job is no surprise, given his record. I also thought Southampton would be okay this year. A team with an excellent youth development program and established style of play will be able to field a coherent team. The money they got and that established style of play helped them to get what they needed. Monk, on the other hand, was a real surprise. Gylfi gets a big assist, I think. He's got an excellent combination of intelligence, a dangerous right foot, and a hard-nosed attitude. Mourinho, don't make me laugh. He did nothing more special than stand aside while the one other club with the talent and coherence to take the title self-destructed. I could have won the title with Chelsea. Liverpool and Rodgers do deserve a special kick for their absolutely wretched buying. It bugs me when we got all kinds of flack for our buys, who, truth be told, are fair rather than poor. Yeah, Soldado lost his scoring boots, okay. Three of our seven in midfield have 23 goals and 15 assists at average age 22. That's got to be near the top of the league for three midfielders. Coutinho, on somebody's PL team of the year, and the only good Rodgers' buy, has exactly one more goal + assist than Lamela, widely panned as our biggest flop. (Okay, Can looks like he'll pan out, tbf.) You do have to question Wenger's year. He got one of the best players in the world, who was excellent, and did more or less what he always does. The explanation had been that Arsenal couldn't get world class players to stay into their prime. Now they have two, theoretically at least, (I've always thought Cazorla is miles better than Ozil) and still don't seem in any danger of winning a title. The truth is that the likes of Coquelin, Ospina and even Giroud are not players you win leagues with, decent to good as they are. Van Gaal, unfortunately, did fairly well, I thought. Top four was crucial. All very well to say he had a zillion dollar squad, and that some of the things he did early looked foolish. Man U still had the problem we've had: no established style of play or lineup. Van Gaal did well to herd them into fourth.
I think the ref got them into that position against Liverpool - wasn't that by two ludicrous penalties? Don't think Van G did very well. I think he was too keen to fit his big names into the team, which only improved after they were not all available by suspension and or injury. Up till then he had Rooney in midfield etc. Agree that Monk, Koeman and Pearson have done best, given what they have achieved with the resources available. Koeman gets a special reward as he has shown up the all-knowing pundits the best who mostly had Southampton down as relegation fodder.
Jose has to get it if you think about it. Chelsea may have been favorites with Man city for the title but he still had to get the results while under pressure to do so. he not only won the title but won it with room to spare and in style, So i think the choice was right. There are quite a few managers who deserve credit like Monk,koeman, Hughes and towards the end pearson and there were a few managers who was expected to do better than they did like Liverpool, Man city, Man utd, newcastle and Qpr who's Harry was the worst that gave carver next to no chance the way he left the club in a mess....
Want to give that another go, this time in English. This time you might want to include either Pardew in the context of Carver or Ramsay in the context of Harry.
