![]() He'll head down to the coast and stare out into the sea. One day, Louis van Gaal will return to England for a retrospective on his storied career. The press conferences! The 'dive' on the touchline! The Angel Di Maria scoop against Leicester! The Marcus Rashford debut! The decision to trust in youth even when the young players were Not Good! Losing 4-0 to MK Dons, somehow! Yes, things got very bad after that, but Everton have proved that things can always - always - get worse.Ī real test of the theory that asks whether manager need to be good if they're fun. Seventy-two! That's way more than even the best Moyes season. Martinez took Everton to 72 points in his first season. Was he really that much better at Newcastle than Steve Bruce? Yes, yes he was.ġ9. Then Pulis ruined it all with his acrimonious exit. The Eagles won that, then the next four, and stayed up with just 33 goals scored. The Blues were top of the league at the end of March when they visited a Palace team with 19 goals from 30 games. In fact, it was the performance against Pulis' Palace which saw Mourinho's Chelsea throw it away. Good, then very bad, and no time to pivot to 'less bad' before the team got rid. Koeman's time at Everton is basically what would have happened if West Ham sacked David Moyes midway through this season. He did well in that first season, which is easy to overlook, but having Jorginho as your top scorer with seven - as was the case in 2020-21 - is frankly criminal. You know, like Adrien Rabiot spending time in Manchester City's academy or Reims being fined whenever Will Still managed a game. Lampard being unable to sign players has become one of those things you have to mention every time you say his name. There was some turgid football and a club record move for a guy who would have been worth it if you got bonus points for skill moves or free-kicks, to the point that you wonder whether he thought you do actually get that in the Premier League. Remember when people wrote articles about how Fergie players would become good managers because they learned from the best? Turns out you need to learn more lessons than 'sign a Norwegian lad from Molde and hope he does the business for you'. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ( Cardiff, January 2014) ![]() No, not if you were a fan, I suppose, fine.Ĩ0. Felix Magath ( Fulham, February 2014)Īt least it was funny. ![]() You probably need a better return of two wins from 15 if you want to stay up, though.Ĩ1. I'll hold my hand up here, I thought Lambert was a shrewd appointment, especially after some of his Villa achievements with a young and cobbled together squad. Would West Brom have survived with no manager instead of Pardew for those few months? You know what, maybe. He spent quite a bit by Newcastle standards, didn't he? We'd love to give him credit for two of his players showing up for a game wearing tuxes, mostly because there isn't much else to give him credit for.Ĩ3. It may surprise you to learn Jones' wife is actually Welsh. We'll always remember that interview where he said he could have "married a nice Welsh girl". Nathan Jones ( Southampton, November 2022) ![]() Not on the pitch, obviously, we're just talking about your position on this list.Ĩ9. Frank de Boer ( Crystal Palace, June 2017) ![]() Five points from 15 games, and only nine goals scored, while the 'just give him a full pre-season' argument fell flat within a month of Huddersfield's first post-relegation season.ĩ0. Siewert took a hopeless team sitting bottom of the league and found a way to make them worse. Jan Siewert ( Huddersfield, appointed January 2019)īet you thought the guy who lost every game would be last. Read it before someone else gets sacked and it's suddenly out of date.ĩ1. And so, without further ado, here is our definitive ranking of the 91 (ninety-one!) permanent managers to come and go since Fergie called it quits. ![]()
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