Another year of Premier League football been and gone, is it? Now of course a calendar year is in no way a meaningful thing in football, where the passage of time is quite rightly measured in seasons rather than some daft January-December Gregorian calendar gibberish.
But there’s end-of-year internet space to fill and fill it we shall, with the ever-changing and fast-moving world of manager rankings. To give you an idea of just how fast moving, Thomas Tuchel was second when we did this 12 months ago, and David Moyes was fourth.
So in the unlikely event any Premier League managers are reading this, don’t get too pleased with yourself if you’re up near the top yeah?
10) Erik Ten Hag (Manchester United)
It’s not been flawless or without its dramas, but there is definitely growing evidence that Ten Hag is starting to make slow but steady progress in the arduous task of turning the hulking great creaking ship that is Manchester United around.
We’ll have a much clearer idea of just how much and how sustainable that progress is in another year’s time, but a start has been made. Solving the Ronaldo Problem (albeit with an atypically selfless assist from the man himself and his bumbling useful idiot Piers Morgan) undoubtedly helps draw a line under mistakes of the past and allows Ten Hag to start moving forward with his players in his way.
The disastrous start to the season already feels like a necessary palate-cleansing and there appears to be genuine reason for long-term optimism about United again, which hasn’t really been the case for an alarmingly long time now.
9) Patrick Vieira (Crystal Palace)
The most vibes-based team in the league, Palace manage to feel far more entertaining than a record of five wins, four draws and five defeats, with 15 goals scored and 18 conceded, would ever suggest.
The results are perfectly adequate, albeit not that much better than under Hodgson, but the whole thing feels much, much nicer. There is a sense of fun and adventure around Selhurst Park and if nothing else then Vieira is at least proving himself the most adept of the assorted bona fide Premier League midfield legends to have had a stab at the management game in recent years.
8) Graham Potter (Brighton/Chelsea)
Probably top five for his Brighton work. Definitely outside the top 10 for his Chelsea efforts. Overall, he lands somewhere in the lower reaches. Will need to turn things round quickly at Chelsea or it will become a significant backward…
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