We rank all 28 Premier League managers this season. Grab some toast because this is a) long and b) brilliant. tickerscricket at his best.
Managed to pull off the exceedingly difficult task of being a promoted manager sacked outrageously early in the season yet elicited minimal sympathy. Clearly a load of stuff going on behind the scenes, but if you’re going to be issuing ‘back me or sack me’ ultimatums in the wake of 9-0 defeats, you need to be really damn sure of your footing.
But while Lampard wasn’t the only – or even the biggest – problem at Everton, let’s not go all Henry Winter and kid ourselves he was ever any kind of solution. The last year has seen a quite staggering number of column inches devoted to the simple act of removing the word ‘entirely’ from the sentence ‘it’s not entirely Frank Lampard’s fault’.
Tuchel fans need not despair, though. He’ll be back before you know it, probably at Tottenham when Antonio Conte huffs off into the sunset because it is almost sarcastically on brand for absolutely everyone involved.Wolves’ awful run-in last season spilled over and became a terrible start to this one. They’d won one in eight at the start of the campaign when the goodwill with Lage’s drab football finally ran out.
The goalless draw against Chelsea was a grimly forgettable mid-table team and Premier League record lows for points and finishing position remain firmly on the cards for Liverpool this season and Klopp, for the first time in his hugely successful seven years at Anfield, doesn’t appear to have either short-term or long-term solutions.Victory over Frank Lampard’s Everton in El Sackico means he lives to fight another day.
And the increasingly exciting but esoteric and gaudy collection of players Todd Boehly is accumulating doesn’t feel in any way like it’s something that’s being done at Potter’s behest or, even more significantly, for his benefit. But it’s still just not quite going right, is it, and we just don’t think it ever will. Is it because at the end of the day he’s American and Our League just still isn’t ready for that? Is it because he isn’t Marcelo Bielsa and never will be? Or is it just that Leeds are a bit shit?A genuinely magnificent two-game interregnum for the Villa caretaker, featuring a 4-0 win over Brentford and a 4-0 defeat at Newcastle.
But now… it’s going really rather well, isn’t it? Forest’s summer business always meant they were likely to improve across the season as long as the start wasn’t entirely shitbone awful and left them cut adrift. It wasn’t, they weren’t, and now here we are. They’re 13th for goodness’ sake.
Frank’s success is a double-edged sword for Brentford of course, with his efforts now starting to attract wider attention and mean he’s liable to be in the mix for some bigger jobs as and when they become available. A sign of how high his stock currently sits is the fact he’s drifted out of the top 10 for the Everton job.As ever with Conte and Spurs, we just don’t have the emotional or intellectual energy to work out whether they’re good or not.
Roberto De Zerbi has made a cracking start with Brighton, who we really did fear would fall away significantly after Potter left. We should have realised how deep the Brighton witchcraft runs. Which is very deep indeed. He’s got them sixth! And if they win both their games in hand they’ll go above Spurs into fifth!
Our prickery is aimed at us as much as anyone else because as we’ve said Gerrard had us fooled as well to our eternal shame. We honestly thought he might be good because he was good at Rangers. We will redouble our suspicions of both great former players and Scotball. Consider ourselves upbraided.
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