There have been an awful lot of managerial changes in the Premier League this season, haven’t there? Yes. And you know what that means. It means we’ve ranked them, because we like ranking things.
Fair to say that not every change has been an upgrade, but some have gone really quite remarkably well. No hard and fast rules here, but in general we’ve glossed over caretakers who took charge for a game or two (your Aaron Dankses, your Michael Skubalas) but included in their own right those who had a more significant spell in charge (the Steve Davises of this world) or are currently in situ because it seems fairer that way.
14) Chelsea – Thomas Tuchel to Graham Potter
Sacking the Champions League-winning Tuchel wasn’t at the time quite as insane as it is now portrayed. There were undeniable signs that he appeared to be losing his mind a tiny bit and it’s not the first club where he’s had a falling-out after a relatively brief yet successful time.
Still, though, Todd Boehly’s reasons did appear to be mainly that Tuchel pushed back against his dafter soccerball ideas and Boehly didn’t much care for an expert having no time for his witless but enormously wealthy and thus valid and worthwhile opinions and schemes. A more pliable candidate was needed, and Graham Potter – having wisely previously turned down Tottenham – inexplicably tossed away everything he’d achieved at Brighton for the Big Six job most obviously unsuited to him and his methods.
He was doomed and will have to repair and rebuild that reputation elsewhere before he’ll get another big job. Either that or accept what he didn’t previously want to accept and take over at Spurs. It is his right as a former Chelsea boss. One piece of advice we would give Potter, that he is free to heed or ignore as he wishes, is this: for the love of god, man, whichever club you go to next please, please, please make it one that has a striker who will score some f***ing goals.
13) Southampton – Ralph Hasenhuttl to Nathan Jones
We had a great fondness for Hasenhuttl, a manager who would occasionally look like a genuine candidate for bigger things (and also a ruddy-faced father of the bride who’d just put three grand behind the bar) and at others would show an alarming propensity to lose 9-0 and then go on a 10-game winless run. It was definitely time to go, though, and Southampton had to do something.
Brilliantly, the something they chose was a superficially confident but obviously…
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