[Football] Best PL Manager this season?

[Hovegull]

Fab aside….

Moyes certainly knows how to get the best out of Everton - the players and the back room. Back to being a threat to play against. Plus he’s so PL experienced.

Nuno probably deserves manager of the season? Forest have really landed on their feet this season and if they get a CL place, then no doubt he’ll be in contention. Will bigger teams be looking at him, would he be able to do the same at messes such as Man United or West Ham or is he a one trick pony?

Slot will win the PL in his first season, but Liverpool have had little challenge and have done crap in all other competitions…

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Nino or Iraola.

 

[pigmanovich]

Nuno, no contest

 

[portslade seagull]

Nuno deserves it but it will probably go to Clot

 

[Machiavelli]

Iraola for me. Nuno has been lucky with Wood having a stand-out season, and hardly any injuries -- as well as he's done and how well drilled they are. I think that Iraola is at the vanguard of a new style of football, and will have an amazing career. He's had injuries but plays an absolutely thrilling style of football. On Football Weekly, Jonathan Liew said that our game against Bournemouth was the best of the season and it was like watching football from the future.

 

[zefarelly]

Forest are flying high due to spaffing an illegal amount of money on 30+ players . . .granted they need good management and they do have a good manager . . . but Nuno wouldn't be where he is with most squads.

Iraola for me, Bmuff shooting way above their weight.

and smug Ted obvs.

FH in the top 3

 

[Cordwainer]

I’d go with Iraola as well. He’s assembled a very good side imo and is refreshing to see a team play the ‘right’ way generally and gain success.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Iraola. Bournemouth are the best team I've seen at the Amex this season. The speed of their passing and attacking football is really impressive.

 

[dazzer6666]

Iraola. Bournemouth are the best team I've seen at the Amex this season. The speed of their passing and attacking football is really impressive.

No-one losing twice to little old BHA is going to get a gong

 

[pigmanovich]

Iraola might seriously challenge Nuno for the award IF Bournemouth qualify for Europe - if not it’ll be a two horse race between Nuno and Slot.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Slot comfortably for me.

 

[Change at Barnham]

An FA Cup win and Champions League qualification might result in the helicopter carrying the trophy being redirected at the last minute.

 

[studio150]

No-one losing twice to little old BHA is going to get a gong

Good, that takes Smug Eddie out of the equation

 

[Hovegull]

Some might say that Emery has been excellent for Villa. Certainly they’ve done well on the CL stage and he’s got an excellent track record at European football.

 

[Randy McNob]

Slot comfortably for me.

not taking anything away but all Slot needed to do was steady the ship at Anfield and the squad needed a reboot. He didn't really need to buy or rebuild the team, all the tools were there, plus none of the other big guns put up a realistic challenge, City, Arsenal, Utd, Chelsea all had poor seasons and left Slot's Liverpool to cruise to the title unchallenged

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It's either ange or amorim for me. they've taken bang average teams and......kept them bang average. it's all about consistancy

 

[bhafc99]

Should be Irola or Nuno. Fab a contender if we win the FA Cup.

But it will either be Slot, because the people deciding these things have zero imagination or appetite to look beyond ‘who won the title’, or possibly even Howe, if the Geordie-first-trophy-since-medieval-jousting-stopped-being-a-thing wankfest continues much longer.

 

[Han Solo]

Fine margins these days, all are good... ours certainly caught up this elite lot after a few "this isn't good enough"-things.

Overall I would probably say Thomas Frank, who is really doing the most with what he got.

 

[JBizzle]

Personally, I'd say it's between Nuno and Iraola. Both have taken relegation strugglers and turned them into European contenders, that said they haven't done it on some fairytale budget (their net spend in the last 5 years is FAR higher than ours, even if you include this summer's blow out) but let's be honest, you can't achieve success in this league without spending mad sums, so it probably shouldn't be a factor any more.

Anyway, if there was a gun to my head? Nuno. Taking someone from relegation to the Champions League and the deep end of the FA Cup in two seasons is a ridiculous achievement.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Nuno and Iraola are clearly the top two if they can stick the landing at the end of the season.

A lot of candidates for honourable mentions including Slot (for managing the post Klopp transition with no fuss), Fab for what he has done with us, Emery for navigating Villa to the Champ league quarters, FA quarters and top ten in the league, and Smug for just being a consistently good coach.