IF Antonio Conte may be shortlisted for Supervisor of the Month whereas resting up at residence in Italy, think about what he may obtain if he took the remainder of the 12 months off.
We’ve all had a chuckle at the opportunity of the ailing Spurs boss receiving the February award regardless of the one match he attended leading to a 4-1 thrashing by Leicester.
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However Conte gained’t be within the temper for laughter as he recuperates from the ache of his latest gallbladder operation.
And whereas the ailing Italian won’t be within the working for the Premier League’s Supervisor of the Season award, there are many different candidates quietly fancying their possibilities.
It was presupposed to be a three-horse race between Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel, however that’s not how issues have labored out.
This season’s high flight bosses may be roughly divided into three classes – overachievers, underachievers and, meh, no matter.
Tuchel and Klopp are clearly amongst those that have did not reside as much as expectations together with Graham Potter, David Moyes, Brendan Rodgers and the Southampton wrecking crew.
And although Manchester Metropolis stay within the hunt to win the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup, it’s nonetheless exhausting to argue that Guardiola has been on the high of his recreation this season.
So by my reckoning that leaves us with six or seven candidates for the title of Britain’s high boss.
Even when Arsenal don’t go on to win the League this season, no-one can deny that Mikel Arteta has accomplished one hell of a job on the Emirates.
He won’t be everybody’s cup of tea together with his manic touchline behaviour however how many individuals genuinely anticipated him to be main the title race this season?
The identical goes for Erik ten Hag, who has completely remodeled Manchester United towards all odds after so a few years of Outdated Trafford mediocrity.
Marco Silva has been one other managerial miracle employee.
Whereas everybody anticipated a right away return to the Championship for newly-promoted Fulham, he has led the west London minnows to seventh place within the desk and the FA Cup quarter-finals.
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Brentford’s Thomas Frank and Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi have continued to defy soccer gravity as each their groups dream of a primary European qualification.
Eddie Howe may need the Saudi billions bankrolling his Newcastle ambitons, however he has dealt with the burden of Geordie expectations magnificently in taking the workforce from the relegation zone to the brink of Champions League qualification.
And what about Steve Cooper at Nottingham Forest, who has needed to cope with a unstable proprietor and a whole new squad of gamers, but he’s nonetheless conserving the membership away from the relegation zone?
For the reason that Premier League’s managerial award was inaugurated in 1994, 24 of the 29 recipients have been the title winner.
Klopp took the crown final 12 months regardless of ending some extent behind Metropolis. However he did win the League and FA Cups and attain the Champions League closing, in order that was truthful sufficient.
However previous to that, the final time the judges seemed past the Champions was in 2014 when Tony Pulis completed eleventh at Crystal Palace – they’d clearly obtained fed up with giving it to Fergie.
The LMA award has not been fairly so elitist, with Joe Kinnear, Frank Clark, Danny Wilson, David Jones, George Burley, Steve Coppell and Chris Wilder amongst earlier winners.
And now we’re prepared so as to add one other unlikely identify to the roll of honour. No, Antonio, not you.
