Who is the best manager in the Premier League?

[Yevrah]

Been thinking about posting this thread for a while and just seeing Jim's assertion that Klopp is a triple top manager reminded me to do so.

So, who is it?

Poll to follow.

[Jeet]

Bob Bradley

[Spoonsky]

I love Klopp, but it has to be Conte. (I would love Conte equally if he weren't managing Chelsea.)

[Shindig]

Tony Pulis.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are six very good ones at the top six clubs. Conte is fucking superb, but Klopp is brilliant as well.

[Lewis]

It's Jose Mourinho until somebody proves otherwise, and nobody really has yet.

[Reg]

My only opinion is that it's not Jose Mourinho. Oh and it's not Wenger but everybody knows that.

[Luke Emia]

I think what Klopp has done with a positive net transfer balance in the summer is excellent and to top it off we play some very sexy football. This is the best actual team we have had since probably 2009. You just have to wonder what he could have done if he had Suarez and Sterling when he arrived.

[Spikey M]

Tony Pulis. The football he plays is shit, but he should be down there with Sunderland with the squads he gets.

[McAvennie]

Mourinho, proven winner
Klopp my personal favourite as the football his teams play is fantastic to watch
Conte however is clearly a contender.

[Smiffy]

Wait until next season so Rafa can put them all to shame. :cool: Klopp included ha.

[Smiffy]

I chose Wenger for longetivity, the fact he has built a few teams, won the title a few times, cup success domestically and for dragging English football into the modern era. Not to mention his earlier years raiding Ligue 1 which gave us Henry who is still out and out the best the league has had although if Suarez/Ronaldo had remained longer they would have had it I imagine. Whilst that's not so much the case these days, after him would be Mourinho, then Ranieri based on what he did at both Chelsea and winning the title with Leicester deserves huge kudos. Then Klopp, then Conte, then Pep.

I firmly believe Pep will get found out and won't experience half as much success here due to the strength of the league, Spain was a 3 way, Germany a 2 way, Premier League is a different beast irrespective of the dip in quality over the years. Mourinho will be sacked by United not long after he signs the extention, 18 months-2 years maybe. Ranieri probably goes at the end of the season whilst Klopp and Conte appear a class above but neither has been here long enough.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I love the foundation myth that has built up around Wenger sailing over the channel in 1996 with an armada of sports scientists and a cargo consisting entirely of dried penne.

[Smiffy]

I was thinking less about meal time and more about on the field tbh. Ljungberg bursting through was one of the finer things in hindsight.

[ItalAussie]

It'll take a lot to convince me that it's not Conte. Was mortified when he left us.

[Dquincy]

Gonna stay English and go with Big Sam.

[7om]

I can't help but think it's not Mourinho. He seems to be a completely different geezer to the one who was stomping the League in his first stint at Chelsea and the one who made Inter look invinceable when they won the Champions League. I'm not sure if he's lost the passion or what, but when I see him at United now he looks like a shadow of his former self. Maybe all the years of creating the 'them and us' narrative at every club has taken it's toll.

To answer Yev, I went for Ranieri just because of how shocking last season was.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It'll take a lot to convince me that it's not Conte. Was mortified when he left us.

I was slightly wary at the start, because Juve could probably piss that league with any manager, but it turns out he is absolutely unbelievably good in a way that non-Chelsea fans will only accept when the actual medals start rolling in at the end of the season.

[Reg]

I think non-Chelsea fans have been pretty impressed, to be honest. (Carragher and Neville both picked him as the manager of the season so far, for example.)

Him and Klopp have been much better than anyone else.