The English Premier League is one of the World’s most talked about football competition. From the players, to the referees, spectators and other. But we can’t talk about the Premier League and leave out a unique set of people who trained the players to be what they are today, and those are the managers.
So, we would be talking about the greatest managers in the EPL, then you can give your own top 5 if you do not agree with the list below:
5. Claudio Ranieri
The manager who oversaw the one of the most improbable and thereby impressive title wins that football history let alone Premier League history has ever seen. That alone is quite a statement, even if he wasn’t fully alone.
The fact that it has since become evident that it was very much a collective effort at Leicester City slightly mitigates against his managerial effect but, for all the debate about whether this win finally mitigated against a career of failure, that was simply never the case in the Premier League. Ranieri had done a very solid and respectable job at Chelsea, before being part of an impossible job.
4. Antonio Conte
Antonio Conte is the second manager to win the Premier League in what was his first season, but he had to lift a broken Chelsea far higher than Manuel Pellegrini did with City, and won it so much more emphatically.
The way that Conte utterly transformed that team through his switch to three at the back, and thereby caused that formation to be taken on by much of the Premier League, may also represent the most resoundingly influential tactical change the competition has seen.
3. Arsene Wenger
Forget all the recent debate, and remember that this is still the man who has won more Premier League titles than anyone except Ferguson and Mourinho, and has been responsible for the competition’s sole undefeated season.
The fact that undefeated season also represents the last of what was three titles in 21 seasons is the main reason he is in just third here, and the struggles of the last few years – even after the passing of the stadium debt era – can’t quite be minimized. By the same token, though, his effect as the league’s first truly modern international manager can’t be minimized either.
If he didn’t win the Premier League as much as he might have, he is probably the manager whose influence and different ideas transformed it the most in the shortest space of time. Ferguson set the standards over years, Mourinho raised them when he first arrived, but it was Wenger who most dramatically changed how other managers and clubs did things.
2. Jose Mourinho
The manager who recorded the two highest points totals in the Premier League, thereby forcing even Sir Alex Ferguson to raise his standards, before then coming back and raising Chelsea to first again and win his third title in what is a mere seven measurable seasons in the competition so far.
If the jury is out on Mourinho’s present and future, there can be no argument about his brilliant past. He may have had the benefit of the first big takeover, but he gave Roman Abramovich full value for money in terms of victories.
1. Sir Alex Ferguson
The boss himself. There’s simply no way to describe him, and simply no way anyone else could be ahead of the man who won a scarcely believable 13 Premier League titles 62% of those he was involved in.
Ferguson appropriately claimed the competition’s very first trophy, immediately showing how he would dominate most of his history, and there’s even a very strong argument that the Premier League is still recovering from his retirement given the open vacuum that has been left by his departure.
That says it all. Ferguson won it all.
Who Would You Rank As The Top 5 English Premier League Managers Ever And Why?
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