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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta now in top 10 all-time best Premier League managers on PPM

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Mikel Arteta has edged past Mauricio Pochettino, Louis van Gaal and Andre Villas-Boas in recent weeks as Arsenal have won nine of ten this season.

The cut-off point is 50 games and there is no surprise at the lower/higher reaches of this list.

 

10) Mikel Arteta (Arsenal): 1.8 pts per game
This really is quite the company Mikel Arteta is keeping, 104 games into his management career at Arsenal. The Gunners lead the Premier League and now find themselves second favourites for the title. The truth is that they have spent a hell of a lot to get there, but Arteta has excelled in creating a young, exciting team.

 

9) Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea and Everton): 1.84 pts per game
The Italian has managed in all five major European leagues and his Premier League record is comfortably the lowest of the lot, which is something that can be laid very much at the feet of Everton. It still feels like a fever dream that he managed Everton.

 

8) Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea): 1.94 pts per game
Good but ultimately not good enough for Chelsea, who sacked him in September 2022 with the Blues in sixth place. Was it harsh? Very much so. Do Chelsea look better for sacking him? Also very much so.

 

7) Arsene Wenger (Arsenal): 1.96 pts per game
The high of the Invincibles (2.37 PPM) became the low of his final season in charge of Arsenal (1.66 RPM), long after he probably should have walked away. Sticking around longer than he was welcome probably cost him a few places on this list.

 

6) Jose Mourinho (Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham): 2.03 pts per game
His final half-season at Chelsea was disastrous, his final half-season at Manchester United was little better, and Tottenham was always an uneasy union that never quite felt comfortable. But there is no doubt that Jose Mourinho constructed one of the great Premier League sides first time round at Chelsea. He would be wise to resist a return that would taint his legacy further.

 

5) Roberto Mancini (Manchester City): 2.05 pts per game
He won Manchester City’s first Premier League title. What more do you want? Well, lots more apparently; he was sacked a year after he won that title having apparently failed to hit certain targets. It now feels ludicrous that City would ever go a whole year without winning silverware but 2013 was a different time.

 

4) Antonio Conte (Chelsea and Tottenham): 2.12 pts per game
He might be a cantankerous sod that could bugger off any minute, but my word he is good at winning football matches. He won the…

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