Your Top 5 Prem Managers of Season

[spursandbarca]

1. Gus Poyet... Took over a team near certain for relegation and rescued them....

2. Brendan Rogers.. Title challenge that a lot of pundits picked 5th.

3. Pulis... Team safe from relegation that were odds on to be relegated when he took over..

4. Martinez. Has Everton playing good football.

5. Pocchetino Has soton playing good football and comfortable 8th place..


worst 5..

1. david Moyes... Taken team from 1st to 7th.

2. Mourinho... spent fortunes and going to win f all

3. Wenger... went from 1st to 4th alarmingly quickly.

4. Sherwood.... Chopped and changed.. Doesn't use holding midfielders.

5. Mel. 10th when took over and barely stayed up

 

[hughy]

1. Pulis
2. Rodgers
3. Bruce
4. Goose
5. Pellegrini

 

[nailsy]

1. Rodgers - took a not very special team with an excellent strikeforce to almost winning the league.
2. Pulis - took the worst team player for player by far to mid-table safety with excellent results along the way
3. Bruce - every player he has bought has done really well for a relegation favourite. Mid table safety and an FA Cup final
4. Martinez - has got Everton getting consistently good results after spending little money and has them playing much improved football as well.
5. Pochettino - Has Southampton playing really good football and has got the best out of the individuals as well. Lambert, Rodriguez and Lallana are playing superbly together and he got good performances out of youngsters Clyne, Cork, Ward-Prowse and Shaw.

Pretty much agree with most of that. Hull aren't really mid table but Bruce has done really well to keep them up and results have probably dropped off a bit because of the cup run.

 

[thinktank]

Fishface
Poo-less
Martinez
Tino
Poyet

*Special mention - Pepe Mel (cause I like him a lot and they will do well - relatively - next season under him imo)

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Rodgers
Pullis
Pellagrini

No others really stand out for me as having achieved anything exceptional.

 

[mpickard2087]

Pulis
Rodgers

Then I guess Martinez, Pochettino and Bruce/Pellegrini.

 

[ShayLaB]

Pulis
Rodgers
Martinez
Poyet
Bruce

I did suggest on some thread a few months back that looking at a manager such as Pulis might not be the worst idea in the world. Our greatest success in the last few years was with HR and Pulis is probably of the same ilk. Unless these guys are given the chance at a top club you will never find out how far they could go with a squad of players such as we have.

Deeply unfashionable and undoubtedly unpopular (just like Benetiz) but there is a lot to be said for an experienced guy at the helm who knows what to do and how to communicate that information. Our last two managers have clearly struggled in that respect and it's been somewhat messy to behold.

 

[dontcallme]

Pulis
Rodgers
Martinez
Poyet
Bruce

I did suggest on some thread a few months back that looking at a manager such as Pulis might not be the worst idea in the world. Our greatest success in the last few years was with HR and Pulis is probably of the same ilk. Unless these guys are given the chance at a top club you will never find out how far they could go with a squad of players such as we have.

Deeply unfashionable and undoubtedly unpopular (just like Benetiz) but there is a lot to be said for an experienced guy at the helm who knows what to do and how to communicate that information. Our last two managers have clearly struggled in that respect and it's been somewhat messy to behold.

I don't think it would be a good fit.

Redknapp always liked his flair players and gave them freedom to do their thing. I supported the decision to hire him as he knows how to put a team together and was comfortable with the flair players.

Pulis is more in Moyes' ilk. Very good at setting up a team and knows how to get them disciplined. Do we really want the likes of Paulinho, Eriksen etc being suffocated?

I think us hiring Pulis would be like Utd hiring Moyes. He just wouldn't know how to get the best from the players we have. Simply too rigid in his system.

That's why I like the idea of the likes of Pochettino and Martinez. Give them good players and they get good football out of them.

 

[ShayLaB]

I don't think it would be a good fit.

Redknapp always liked his flair players and gave them freedom to do their thing. I supported the decision to hire him as he knows how to put a team together and was comfortable with the flair players.

Pulis is more in Moyes' ilk. Very good at setting up a team and knows how to get them disciplined. Do we really want the likes of Paulinho, Eriksen etc being suffocated?

I think us hiring Pulis would be like Utd hiring Moyes. He just wouldn't know how to get the best from the players we have. Simply too rigid in his system.

That's why I like the idea of the likes of Pochettino and Martinez. Give them good players and they get good football out of them.

Yeah...I can see why he would seem to be a bad fit. The only argument I can make in response to that is the the style of play at Palace seems very dissimilar to what we saw at Stoke. He has created a style of play to suit the players at his disposal rather than enforcing something that worked for so many years previously. I think it is very unlikely Spurs will even approach him but sometimes the less obvious choices can have merit. He moulded a team spirit from the chaos of their early season...that's the sort of transformation we need at Spurs.

 

[Yid]

Can't bring myself to include Pulis because I haven't forgiven him for Stoke and for wearing a baseball cap so:

1) Poyet - remarkable turnaround
2) Martinez - Nice man, nice style, nice.
3) Brendan - boy done good.
4) Widow Twanky (Good for Hudd & Jake)
5) Poch - because I want to start off liking our new manager.

Wooden spoon to Lambert, slap round the face to Pardew

I really like your selection of choices. Especially #5!

 

[moomin]

top:
1. pelligrini
2. rodgers
3. pulis
4. martinez
5. poch


worst:
1. moyes
2. gunnar
3. sherwood
4. hughton
5. mel

 

[Drexl]

1. Pulis - Absolute miracle at Palace

2. Pellegrini - No EPL experience, little command of English, demanding chairman, yet delivered

3. Poyet - An absolute houdini act at Sunderland

4. Rodgers - Right place right time, got the most out of his strikeforce

5. Hughes - Got Stoke playing some pretty decent football
5 = Martinez - See Hughes but Everton

 

[idontgetit]

Don't know how it can be anyone other than Brenton. I slagged the Scouse right off at the start of the season and they've torn the prem up with a squad no better than ours. He's built something there. Poch inherited a lot. Pulis is a good manager but no genius. Martinez has done great but I think they'll struggle next year in the prem big time. Pellegrini obviously has been excellent, winning and being very watchable in doing so.

 

[Drexl]

Rodgers had 1 big advantage, no Europe

I read a couple of weeks ago that Liverpool had played 39 games this season, City 52 and Chelsea 54, so Rodgers had the fresh legs the other teams did not have which was a big advantage for him

 

[sim0n]

pulis - outstanding
pelligrini - all that money and pressure, even won with demichelis in the line-up
rodgers - a healthy suarez really was not too much of a challenge to manage games, but he kept him on the pitch
poyet - clearly made the difference there
lambert - like an honorable mention, somehow avoided relegation with that squad for 2 seasons now, with no money or support

 

[OneHotspur1988]

That geezer at man city x 5

He won the league after all

 

[Danners9]

pulis - outstanding
pelligrini - all that money and pressure, even won with demichelis in the line-up
rodgers - a healthy suarez really was not too much of a challenge to manage games, but he kept him on the pitch
poyet - clearly made the difference there
lambert - like an honorable mention, somehow avoided relegation with that squad for 2 seasons now, with no money or support

I was going to say the same top 4, but wasn't sure on 5th.. Maybe Malky Mackay can get a special mention out of sympathy as the owner turns him into a scapegoat and the fans/press turned him into a martyr.

 

[RButch]

1.Pulis
2.Rodgers
3.Bruce
4.Poyet
5.Hughes/ Martinez

Just missing out by a whisker is Poch/Pellegrini.

 

[OmarsComing]

Poyet getting way too much love in here. They did well to stay up after we beat them 5-1 but their results after were an abnormality.

After all the a stick Hughes received after he left QPR, IMO he deserves more recognition.

 

[KingNothing]

Brendan Rodgers
Roberto Martinez
Manuel Pellegrini
Mauricio Pochettino
Steve Bruce