EPL Manager of the Year Award

kryogen

I know I know, the season is not over yet but thought I'd get an early start with this one and leave the poll open till the end of the season as it could be quite interesting.

Please dont turn the thread into a flame war!

Dubit10

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew. No doubt at all he's done a wonderful job.

James__10

Kenny Dalglish

Terry Connor.

Morzadec

David Moyes

Probably between Pardew, Ferguson, Rodgers and Lambert.

I went for Lambert

VinylJunkie

Kenny Dalglish

King Kenny, sure he has won one cup and is in the final of another. Potentially more trophies than any other manager this year.

League Form? Don't mind that see above.

SuprSi

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew, without a doubt. Might yet guide a team that was relegated a few seasons ago into the Champions League having lost their 'star' striker, with many players that, on paper at least, wouldn't match most of the other competing teams but as a unit are extremely impressive.

As a Spurs fan I'd argue that they deserve 4th spot more than Spurs or Chelsea.

kevohmsford

Kenny Dalglish

Alan Pardew has done really well at Newcastle this year. The players he has brought in have been brilliant.

VinylJunkie

Kenny Dalglish

kevohmsford wrote: »

Alan Pardew has done really well at Newcastle this year. The players he has brought in have been brilliant.

But how many cups has he won?

cgpg5

Kenny Dalglish

VinylJunkie wrote: »

But how many cups has he won?

I hope you're not being serious...

SuprSi

Kenny Dalglish

VinylJunkie wrote: »

But how many cups has he won?

Well by that logic should AVB & RDM share the trophy if Chelsea win the FA Cup?

Turtyturd

Kenny Dalglish

VinylJunkie wrote: »

But how many cups has he won?

kryogen wrote: »

Please dont turn the thread into a flame war!

Most likely between Pardew and whoever wins the league.

cgpg5

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew without a shadow of a doubt. Lambert is a close second. Rogers not near it imo

GavRedKing

Roberto Di Matteo.

One loss in the league, hes a shoe in.

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

I voted for Pardew aswell think the job he has done cannot be ignored tbh, Lambert has to also be recognised and the league winner naturally.

batm!ke

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew for me. Very impressive results and performances. Him or *shudder* Ferguson if he wins the league with a relatively poor/uneven United squad.

Giggsy11

David Moyes

For me it is between Pardew and Lambert. Couldn't decide which one, voted for Lambert but I'm equally impressed with Pardew.

Brendan Rodgers

Steve Keane , how he "Managed" to stay in a job beggars belief

HalloweenJack

David Moyes

Rogers or Lambert.

Pardew has done an exceptional job but they were starting from a higher level than both Norwich and Swansea were and they've had the money to strengthen that neither of the promoted sides have had.

Both Norwich and Swansea can still make it into Europe so that'd be an amazing achievement.

Lambert probably edges it for me because he brought them up from League One the year before, which makes his achievements this season all the more impressive.

F1ngers

Alan Pardew

VinylJunkie wrote: »

But how many cups has he won?

It's quite obvious you don't have to be a good manager to win cups...

Oranage2

In this order:

1) Pardew - For obvious reasons
2) Ferguson - Another excellent campaign
3) Hodgson - Works wonders at every club he's at

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Rogers or Lambert.

Pardew has done an exceptional job but they were starting from a higher level than both Norwich and Swansea were and they've had the money to strengthen that neither of the promoted sides have had.

Both Norwich and Swansea can still make it into Europe so that'd be an amazing achievement.

Lambert probably edges it for me because he brought them up from League One the year before, which makes his achievements this season all the more impressive.

Lambert would be ahead of Rodgers quite easily for me, and for both of them to be still in contention, regardless of small a chance it is, of playing in Europe next season is unbelievable, but honestly, for Newcastle to be challenging realistically for Champions League football at the business end of the season is something else. For me it is anyway, nobody would have believed you if you said it at Christmas never mind the start of the season.

Been a good year for managers of the "smaller" clubs I think

LuckyLloyd

David Moyes

Oranage2 wrote: »

In this order:

1) Pardew - For obvious reasons
2) Ferguson - Another excellent campaign
3) Hodgson - Works wonders at every club he's at

Excellent post.

Nuri Sahin

David Moyes

Went with Lambert. Isn't getting the praise the likes of Pardew and especially Rodgers get by fans or media. But quietly gets on with his business, has made Carrow Road a very difficult place to go to and he Norwich playing some very positive, attacking based football. Norwich are also currently higher than Swansea in the table with dare I say, an inferior team at present too.

Rodgers has done a great as well, but a lot of the foundation was laid by Martinez and a lot of people at least in the media (Sky for one!) don't mention that.

Pardew like the two above has also done terrifically, but, and I'm perhaps being a tad harsh here, it'd have been fascinating to see what players he would have brought in without Carr there. If they (Ba, Cisse, etc, etc) were all Pardew players that he wanted in the first place, fair bloody play to him. Probably deserves top spot. Still very envious of Newcastle buys for the most part over the last season and a bit. That in itself is a compliment to any Newcastle fans reading this.

cup of tea

Kenny Dalglish

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Excellent post.

Maybe if Liverpool hadn't been so impatient and given him a chance to settle, Liverpool would be in a better position in the league and you might have had some good signings (Liverpool might even have avoided the signings of Andy Carroll and Downing. Prefer to have Hodgson managing my club over ''King'' Kenny any day of the week. Sorry for going off topic.

Alan Pardrew deserves it hands down, has done wonders at the club. You don't have to look too far back to when they got relegated and the fans were calling for Ashleys head(newcastle's success has deflected all that attention). Obviously Di Mateo hasn't being managing long enough to deserve a mention but I think he nearly deserves the full time postion.

That_Guy

David Moyes

Lambert for me personally. Has Norwich playing some amazing stuff at times. Their graft and willingness to work for each other is great. Seems a nice chap too.

Pardew has done very well with us but from a non biased view Lambert for me deserves it.

mike65

Paul Lambert

Rodgers but could have picked Pardew or Lambert.

jaykay74

Roberto Mancini

Saf should be a shoe in for this. Worst Utd team in living memory apparently and he has them in first spot. Maybe winning the league is a boring achievement though*.



*If he pulls it off again

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

jaykay74 wrote: »

Saf should be a shoe in for this. Worst Utd team in living memory apparently and he has them in first spot.

But you see thats just a misguided opinion and there have been others who also deserve to at least be recognized.

Morzadec

David Moyes

Jesus lads, 6 votes for Daglish. I'm not a big criticiser of Daglish, I think he's done well to get us so far in the only competitions we could have realistically won this year, and because we have been unlucky at times in the league he probably deserves another year. But our awful league form and position means he can't be a contender.

You wonder why people try to wind up Liverpool fans on the 'Is KK done?' thread, it's because some pool fans can't take their blinkers off! I'm sure the same fans would vote Suarez as player of the season. At least try to be objective.

I can't see any argument for any other manager other than Pardew, Ferguson, Rodgers or Lambert

Yakult

Brendan Rodgers

Alan Pardew
Paul Lambert
Brendan Rodgers
Alex Ferguson (If Man Utd win the league again)

Between those four really, but I think Pardew might get it in the end.

Voted KD for the craic, which was mighty.

TheDoc

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew.

Rodgers not in my top 4. Has drifted off, and getting WAY too much credit for the foundations Roberto Martinez laid..

missingtime

Hodgson - Because he's a great man manager, handles the media well and signs excellent players.

mike65

Paul Lambert

missingtime wrote: »

Hodgson - Because he's a great man manager, handles the media well and signs excellent players.

Satires not dead!

AgileMyth

David Moyes

Weren't Norwich in League one two seasons ago? Surely Lambert should be walking this..

kippy

Roberto Mancini

Right now, Ferguson.
Somehow he manages, yet again, to get a far from brilliant United team to the top of the league, with some aging stars and some youth, at the backdrop of some serious injuries in the squad this year, and increasing pressure from big spending City.
The two clubs are oceans ahead of anyone else in the league.

That being said, should Chelsea win the CL, Roberto Di Matteo deserves honorable mention, the second caretaker manager at chelsea to get them into a CL final (could it happen)?

Finally, Alan Pardew is up there for me (or perhaps the scouting team at Newcastle moreso)
I thought Newcastle firing their old manager was a bad move, now it looks like genius. Some great players there.

cgpg5

Kenny Dalglish

AgileMyth wrote: »

Weren't Norwich in League one two seasons ago? Surely Lambert should be walking this..

Newcastle were championship two seasons ago and may get a champs league place.

To be fair I see where you are coming from but this award is rightfully given over a season-long period, what happened prior to that should be irrelevant really.

Pardew and Lambert are my top two though unquestionably

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

Its ^^^ this that sets Pardew apart for me, for years we have heard about how hard it is to break into the top 4, if he does get there for them he should get the award hands down imo, and even if he fails to deliver 4th he would still have over achieved to an extent that puts him up there in contention anyway.

CSF

Roberto Mancini

Well on the plus side, at least the 8 people who voted Dalglish weren't silly enough to actually post who they'd voted for....

Redzer7

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew for me, was tempted to pick Wenger though :pac:.

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

CSF wrote: »

Well on the plus side, at least the 8 people who voted Dalglish weren't silly enough to actually post who they'd voted for....

May I direct you here good sir

Yakult wrote: »

Alan Pardew
Paul Lambert
Brendan Rodgers
Alex Ferguson (If Man Utd win the league again)

Between those four really, but I think Pardew might get it in the end.

Voted KD for the craic, which was mighty.

Though it was of course purely for the lulz the poster claims!

ps, I do believe them

eugeneious

Kenny Dalglish

Pardew for me. We saw how much money City and Spurs had t spend to break into the top 4 and yet Pardew has spent a fraction of those two clubs and has actually had to break the now "top 6" in order to possibly get CL. Incredible achievement when you consider they were in the Championship 2 seasons ago.

Fergie would come 2nd for me assuming he wins the league because he really is the big reason why Utd will now probably win the League and tbh if he was manager of City or even Spurs I reckon they would win the league. This potential title will go down as one of greatest achievements imo.

Lambert would be a close 3rd and just ahead of Rodgers as although both have done brilliant jobs, Lambert has had a weaker squad imo, has been willing to adapt his style depending on the opposition in each game and obviously hasn't had the foundations laid for him like Rodgers did to an extent.

Also special mention to Roberto Martinez who if he keeps Wigan up will have done an amazing job imo. Lost his best player in N'zogbia, not had much money to spend and has been written off so many times this season. Fair play to him.

G.K.

David Moyes

Lambert

starviewadams

Paul Lambert

Went with Rodgers with Paul Lambert a close second.

niallo27

Brendan Rodgers

If Kenny does win both cups in his first season it will be an incredible achievement from where the club was 18 months ago, league form has been very poor but most clubs and managers would love to have two cups at the end of a season.

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

Meh, Di Matteo could finish the season as a Champion of Europe and would still only get an honourable mention

A case can be made for most things, but I think myself, I find it hard to make a case for anybody bar Pardew, Lambert, Rodgers and Fergie, maybe at a stretch Wenger considering the start of the season they had, player departures etc and the position they are in now.

secman

Roberto Martinez - Wigan looked dead and buried all season, stuck to his game plan.... play football. Besides have loads of respect for Dave Whelan too.

Avid MUFC fan

Secman

Owen_S

Roberto Mancini

Ferguson, guiding a team to win the league ahead of Man City after the amount of money they have spent. Pardew deserves credit for getting Newcastle to a top 4-6 finish.

batistuta9

Kenny Dalglish

pardew for me, fantastic season with newcastle - nuff said

Fuhrer

Roberto Mancini

secman wrote: »

Roberto Martinez - Wigan looked dead and buried all season, stuck to his game plan.... play football. Besides have loads of respect for Dave Whelan too.

Avid MUFC fan

Secman

Wigan looked dead and buried for most of the season while he was manager as well.


I dont consider salvaging your season and barely surviving after being at a club whose team you've mostly built to be the mark of the best performance of a manager in the league.

kryogen

Kenny Dalglish

Have to agree with that, I am a fan of Martinez and what he tries to do but this season has been a disaster for them imo, surviving would be brilliant alright, but they only had themselves to blame for being in the position where relegation looked a foregone conclusion almost.

An out and out goalscorer would make a huge difference to them i think, shame we didnt send Macheda there actually.

Mr. Presentable

Pardew, or O'Neill for his rescue of a drowning Sunderland.