How would you rank the current PL Managers?

[Optimistic Nut]

Howe's elite level now. If one of the elite English club jobs freed up, he'd be near the top of their lists. 

[gbandit]

Aye, Howe is rising all the time and he was already top six

[Mike]

Eddie

Iraola

Emery

Pep

[gazza ladra]

Rating Arteta

 

[Smal]

1. Guardiola

2. Arteta

3. Howe

4. Frank

5. Emery

6. Iraola

7. Slot

8. Nuno

9. Silva

10. Moyes

11. Glasner

12. Maresca

13. Hurzeler

14. Pereira

15. Farke

16. Le Bris

17. Potter

18. Parker

19. Andrews

20. Amorim

[The Butcher]

No chance Arteta is better than Howe.

 

I'd argue Howe is the best in the league based on the last few years.

[54]

Eddie Howe: Howe.

Top Tier: Guardiola, Slot, Emery.

Quality Managers: Iraola, Frank, Silva, Glasner, Arteta.

Average: Hurzeler, Maresca, Nuno, Moyes.

Satisfactory: Amorim, Pereira, Le Bris.

Poor: Potter, Farke, Parker.

Unknown:  Andrews.

[Pokerprince2004]

I'd have Howe above Arteta now. Arteta is excellent but he's spent over £1 billion in his six years and nothing to show bar the COVID-cup he won in 2020

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by Pokerprince2004

[toon25]

16 minutes ago, Smal said:

1. Guardiola

2. Arteta

3. Howe

4. Frank

5. Emery

6. Iraola

7. Slot

8. Nuno

9. Silva

10. Moyes

11. Glasner

12. Maresca

13. Hurzeler

14. Pereira

15. Farke

16. Le Bris

17. Potter

18. Parker

19. Andrews

20. Amorim

Never in a month of Sundays is Arteta a better manager than wor Eddie.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by toon25

[toon25]

Genuinely cannot see anything in Arteta, like. 

 

Top 5:

 

Pep

Emery

Eddie

Moyes

Frank

 

 

 

[gazza ladra]

I think you have to rate Slot. Liverpool walked the league without substantial improvements over Klopp's side. 

 

Arteta, Maresca, and Amorim have spent a whole lot of money and achieved very little. Give that money to Howe, Emery, Iraola, Glasner and they'd all do better then those three. 

 

Going to laugh my ass off if Frank's Spurs finish above Arsenal. 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by gazza ladra
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[Smal]

I love Eddie as much as you lads but Arteta has had Arsenal as the 2nd best side in the league for 3 seasons straight now. They were unlucky not to win the title in 23/24. There's no point in downplaying Arteta's achievements just because he's an arsehole and they play dour football now  

[gbandit]

Just now, Smal said:

I love Eddie as much as you lads but Arteta has had Arsenal as the 2nd best side in the league for 3 seasons straight now. They were unlucky not to win the title in 23/24. There's no point in downplaying Arteta's achievements just because he's an arsehole and they play dour football now  

Personally think he’s taking them backwards and they won’t come close to challenging for the title this season with a much better squad than us

[toon25]

Jury is out on Slot for me. They choked when it mattered last year.

 

1 minute ago, Smal said:

I love Eddie as much as you lads but Arteta has had Arsenal as the 2nd best side in the league for 3 seasons straight now. They were unlucky not to win the title in 23/24. There's no point in downplaying Arteta's achievements just because he's an arsehole and they play dour football now  

 

The counter to that would be that he's done it at one club, and one that's spent an absolute fortune 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by toon25

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On 18/03/2024 at 13:52, TRC said:

The elite

Pep

Klopp

 

Top Level Managers

Arteta

Emery

 

Might be really good and better than the rest

Ange

De Zerbi

 

Solid Managers

Silva

Oniel

Iraola

Frank

 

Average PL Managers with highs and lows

Moyes

Howe

Nuno

Ten Hag

Poch

Dyche

 

Tough situation so hard to judge

Kompany

Glasner

Edwards

 

Absolute shit

Wilder

 

One of the reasons I want Howe out, is although he is good, the rest of the field are good too he doesnt stand out and the top 6 managers in this league are a level above him.

 

Was just going through the thread again and came across this beauty again from last year

[Wolfcastle]

10 minutes ago, Smal said:

I love Eddie as much as you lads but Arteta has had Arsenal as the 2nd best side in the league for 3 seasons straight now. They were unlucky not to win the title in 23/24. There's no point in downplaying Arteta's achievements just because he's an arsehole and they play dour football now  

If it just goes off league table then what's the point of the thread?

Arteta couldn't do what Eddie's done with the same resources, Emery is the only one that's shown that he could. What would Pep be like without money? would be the same coach but he'd win a lot less.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by Wolfcastle

[nufc4eva]

All equal with being allowed to spend money Howe absolutely top of them all and also his humility and leadership. Frank another one right up there as is Iraola and Emery.

 

Slot, Pep, Maresca, Paella Nonce been given all the resources in the world, how would they do with a Newcastle, Brentford or Bournemouth.

 

I'm blinded by Howe but he really is elite in everything he does, the only elite English manager and first to win a trophy since 2008 and if he had resources first to win Premier League.

[nufc4eva]

Also worked his way through the leagues with Bournemouth, not just handed it on a platter.

[Harveys Barn]

Elite:

 

Howe, Frank, Glasner

 

Excellent:

 

Emery, Slot, Pep, Moyes, Iraola, Nuno

 

Good:

 

Arteta, Maresca, Hurzeler

 

Bad:

 

Potter, Amorim

[gbandit]

Pep’s clearly elite but I wonder if he’s lost it a bit. I feel like in the transfer market they’ve made some major errors, Haaland being the main one in recent years, Grealish + Doku being another and Savinho. His wide options have been wrong fits for his football time and again. Think he might be entering that phase in his career where he’s becoming less engaged and other managers want it more.

 

Dont think Hurzeler has shown anything to suggest he’s a quality manager. Glasner is clearly a very very good manager, as is Frank sadly and Iraola.

 

Emery is clearly an elite manager too. He took a side that was bordering on relegation, certainly in form and transformed them into CL contenders at a time when all the biggest clubs had done everything in their power to stop them and us from competing.

 

I think it’s far too early to judge Slot as a top manager in this league. At the end of this season we’ll be able to judge him, I’ll say the same for Amorim 

[nufc4eva]

Amorim doesn't seem flexible enough for this league, has his ideal of 352 or whatever and won't adapt to anything else no matter how ineffective his team is.

 

Pep has been top manager for so long and style of play but the recent signings really suspect and seem to have lost quite a bit about them.

 

Unfortunately Frank will do great at Spurs, just seems like the players will be on his side and tactically can adapt.

[Danh1]

Pep

Howe

Emery

Slot

Arteta

Glasner

Iraola 

Frank

Nuno

The baldy cunt at Chelsea

The rest.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2025 by Danh1

[Danh1]

2 minutes ago, nufc4eva said:

Amorim doesn't seem flexible enough for this league, has his ideal of 352 or whatever and won't adapt to anything else no matter how ineffective his team is.

 

Pep has been top manager for so long and style of play but the recent signings really suspect and seem to have lost quite a bit about them.

 

Unfortunately Frank will do great at Spurs, just seems like the players will be on his side and tactically can adapt.

Was talking to a Man United fan the other night and we both said the same about Amorim. On top of this he seems to alienate players when he falls out with them or doesn’t fancy them, not great. 

[toon25]

16 minutes ago, Harveys Barn said:

Elite:

 

Howe, Frank, Glasner

 

Excellent:

 

Emery, Slot, Pep, Moyes, Iraola, Nuno

 

Good:

 

Arteta, Maresca, Hurzeler

 

Bad:

 

Potter, Amorim

 

Given his trophy record there's absolutely no way Emery isn't in that elite category. Frank has done the grand sum of fuck all to be put in that bracket

[Stifler]

52 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

No chance Arteta is better than Howe.

 

I'd argue Howe is the best in the league based on the last few years.

I can’t see past Howe and Emery considering how both are limited by PSR, have made the most out of players who were going down under previous managers, and have consistently been in the European places in their full seasons.