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Listen, we all know who the best manager in the 2020 Premier League was. A great well done to Nigel Pearson.
10) Frank Lampard
It speaks of the infallible coherence of Frank Lampard who occupied exactly the same position in this list last december. The calendar year Premier League table has Chelsea in third place in goals scored and fourth in points won, but an annual expenditure that ranks a distant first, and a column of goals conceded greater than that of Arsenal and Burnley, puts any achievement in context.
They started the year, finished the season, and may well conclude 2020 in fourth place, implying a certain degree of stagnation but actually masking the relative progress made. There have been losses to Newcastle and West Ham, among others, but an FA Cup final deserves praise, as does reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League once more, even if his latest adventure gave Lampard a beating. by 7-1 of the eventual champion Bayern Munich. See you here again, in exactly the same position, in 12 months, right?
9) José Mourinho
It started off very well: back-to-back 1-0 losses to Southampton and Liverpool kicked off the year for Tottenham before a 0-0 draw at Vicarage Road, with Troy Deeney missing a penalty for Watford. All or nothing They were the options and José Mourinho apparently chose the latter. There was a genuine debate about their future and that of the club when a five-match winless streak led them to lockdown and ended their participation in both the Champions League and the FA Cup.
Spending a summer jogging with Tanguy Ndombele during a global pandemic changed everything. Tottenham made their way back to Europe by finishing sixth, where they currently stand 14 games this campaign after the the briefest of flirtations with title dispute. Rather, that sums up a general pattern of the manager who puts a floor on results, but also a ceiling on performances. Tim Sherwood and Mauricio Pochettino combined to reach 66 points from 38 games in 2014 (1.76 per game); the best Mourinho can hope for is 60 points from 34 games (1.76 per game). Next year should be better, but this one had many moments.
8) Pep Guardiola
No 2020 vision is required to realize what you need to improve at Manchester City. Their six Premier League losses this year have been inflicted by Tottenham (twice), Manchester United, Chelsea, Southampton and Leicester – an excellent collection of teams, each of whom defended resolutely and counterattacked incisively. Pep Guardiola has had trouble planning alternative travel methods at times.
Much of this year has also been spent chasing, be it Liverpool in the first half or consistency in the second. But one area of massive improvement that the manager has overseen is defense. City have conceded only 24 goals; the closest has always let 32 in. In the midst of the perennial quest for a Champions League breakthrough, that offers genuine hope that Guardiola’s new deal will produce beautiful bald fruit and not scam.
7) Carlo Ancelotti
As much as it feels like a season that suits your calm and experienced brilliance, Carlo Ancelotti and Everton haven’t always had the vibe of a marriage that works. They both know one is hitting while the other settles, a suspicion only fueled by three separate four-game runs without a win from February to June, early July, and October to November.
However, the coach and the club have kept faith in a process with many promises. Tottenham, Chelsea, Leicester and Arsenal have been beaten, Dominic Calvert-Lewin has become a forward with elite potential and the overall level has risen. Each positive potential was reduced to an inch of its relevance under Marco Silva and in the final months of the reigns of Roberto Martínez and Ronald Koeman. Ancelotti naturally inspires more confidence and faith that Everton really does have the right person at the helm.
6) Nuno Espirito Santo
The wolves continue to prove how difficult it is for a club to establish itself as an ambitious challenger for the clear elite. They constantly feel on the cusp of some sort of breakthrough in terms of consistency, but they have yet to really evolve from the team that got excited about the promotion more than two years ago. Even then they were patchy, but they felt fresher and the excuse for inexperience is gone.
Nuno Espirito Santo deserves credit for holding it all together while trying to start a new phase of development at Molineux. The sales of Matt Doherty and Diogo Jota to better clubs are a testament to their selection and training, and the reliance on Joao Moutinho, Rubén Neves, Adama Traore and Raúl Jiménez is no longer as prevalent. Others – Daniel Podence, Pedro Neto, Max Kilman and now Owen Otasowie – have worked their way into a starting lineup that long felt fixed. Nuno has not reinvented his own wheel but, in the process of building your plane while you are flying, has been named Premier League Manager of the Month more often than anyone.
5) Dean Smith
Nine losses and two draws in 11 games from February 1 to July 9 should rule any manager out of inclusion by qualifying for the best of the year. But that only underscores the steps taken by Dean Smith to turn Aston Villa from relegation fodder to one of the most exciting teams in the country. He oversaw a defensive upgrade to keep them up to speed and has focused on refining the attack to take them even further.
That makes it look simple because, at least from the outside, it is. Smith’s side has no intricate system or original revolutionary tactic. They prioritize putting their best player on the ball and have surrounded him with more quality than before, all built on the foundation provided by strong center-backs, energetic wingers and an accomplished goalkeeper. Smith has confident in recruiting more than most managers to rectify problems that, ironically, were created the previous summer. That is easier said than done and part of his literal work, one that he really does quite well at the moment.
4) Sean Dyche
Burnley, of course, are Claret’s champions. His 43 points from 31 games are more than West Ham’s 41 of 33 and Villa’s 39 of 30. His annual spending of £ 10 million is also less than half of Jarrod Bowen and only marginally more than a Mbwana Samatta. They will face Leeds and Sheffield United before 2020 comes out with a real chance of beating Arsenal (46 points from 32 games) in both the current and annual tables.
Sean Dyche can’t pretend to match Sam Allardyce’s lack of relegation in the Premier League But any struggling club would surely pick the 49-year-old if they had the choice. He continues to do wonders on a budget on Turf Moor and the intrigue now is to see how he would fare elsewhere with a little more freedom. As it stands, Burnley knows they can hand over Dale Stephens for £ 1 million as their biggest summer signing knowing he will turn that standing water into home-brand wine and 5-0 losses at the Etihad. As Burnley looks to shake off another survival dogfight, it’s really worth remembering how Dyche continues to confuse not only expectations but numbers as well. It shouldn’t work, but it really does.
3) Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
The first indications were that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer might not last the season, much less the year. Manchester United opened 2020 in a rather diabolical way, losing 2-0 to Arsenal, Liverpool and Burnley, thrashing the doomed Norwich at home and drawing with the Wolves. By February 1, they were behind Sheffield United, closer to 14 than 4 in terms of points and apparently waiting for David Moyes’ moment: when qualification to the Champions League was no longer mathematically possible and the trigger.
That staggering 14-game unbeaten streak to secure third place was somewhat tempered by losing three consecutive semifinals in different competitions. Between calamity in the Champions League group stage, 6-1 losses at home and a worrying dependence on Bruno FernandesSolskjaer has never felt more than a couple of results for his post under intense scrutiny. But he has come out of the bravado with plenty of evidence this year to support his continued reign. Only Liverpool have lost fewer Premier League games; the Reds and Manchester City are alone in winning more than United. Bring in 2021 with positive results against Leicester and Wolves and the PE teacher will have earned your promotion.
2) Ralph Hasenhuttl
He might as well be the best pound-for-pound coach in the Premier League. Ralph Hasenhuttl has spent £ 83.9 million on four transfer windows in Southampton (£ 33.9 million in 2020) to build a Southampton team in his own endearing image. This year has brought as many wins as Chelsea, fewer defeats than Arsenal, Leicester and Wolves, more goals than Tottenham and a team that many fans across the country would be forgiven for watching with raging envy.
It doesn’t seem like the world has to wait much longer to see what Hasenhuttl can do with seemingly better players. The 53-year-old has already polished Liverpool’s next signing Jannik Vestergaard, while helping James Ward-Prowse and Stuart Armstrong in particular thrive as hardworking midfielders with an undeniable quality of possession. As long as Southampton has had to hire a manager and develop a structure to provoke the jealousy again, the wait has been worth it.
1) Jurgen Klopp
There can be no real argument. Liverpool have not been in their imperious prime, but even given the complacency that inevitably seeped in during the title procession. neither side has come close to matching them. The slips and setbacks against Watford, Manchester City, Arsenal and Aston Villa only underscore how demanding the standards are set by Jurgen Klopp – they still have at least four more wins, 12 more points and seven more goals than anyone else in 2020. The promoted and relegated teams in Watford (18), Leeds (17), Bournemouth (14), Fulham (10), Norwich (8) and West Brom (7) have a combined 74 points to Liverpool’s 75 this year.
Klopp has had to deal with not only the loss of a group that effectively achieved their main goal for the season in January, but also a spate of injuries to key players at a variety of positions. The way Caoimhin Kelleher, Rhys Williams, Nat Phillips, Neco Williams, Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota have come off the periphery when necessary is testament to superior training and management. Take Andy Lonergan out of any other team and they could have collapsed.
Matt stead
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