[Experiment] Gave all premier league clubs English managers, here's the results after one season and how each manager did. (FM2016)
It's an odd new world, the Premier League have announced that every club must begin the new season with an Englishman in charge. Out go the Wengers, Mourinhos and Tony Pulis' of the world and clubs begin to scramble and scrap over the best of English...
Heres who's gone where and how they did first season in table order...
1st - Arsenal; Sean Dyche: A few eyebrows raised when Arsenal announced the former Burnley man to replace Wenger but Jiminy cricket did he deliver. Winning the league by 6 points and achieving what the Frenchman couldn't since 2004.
2nd - Man City; Stuart Pearce: Pearce was city manager before the cash, plugging away with little investment, a month after he stepped down the club became oil rich so now he's back to show what he could've done. Claiming second place and most importantly doing it with a 4-4- fucking 2.
3rd - Spurs; Eddie Howe: Spurs were forced to part way with probably the best young manager in the world in Pochettino, so they replaced him with the man widely regarded as the best young manager in England, he lead them to 3rd with minimal fuss.
4th - Manchester United; Steve Bruce: The return of a legend? When the new rules were announced United fans clamoured for it to be Giggsys time to shine, before being reminded that Giggs is Welsh and then being utterly perplexed when the club announced the man who screams 'mediocre' Steve Bruce. After Brucie reminded them he'd actually scored the winner and sealed Sir Alex's first title back in the day, the fans calmed and he lead them to 4th. A decent achievement given he was on the verge of the sack in January.
5th - Chelsea; Garry Monk: Despite being a good young coach, it was pretty clear Garry wasn't quite ready for Chelsea, he was sacked in February and replaced with Louis Van Gaal.
6th - Liverpool; Paul Clement: Not a bad return from the former Chelsea, Real and Bayern Assistant, thrown into a top job at a club with massive pressures, he started poorly sitting 19th after 7 games but managed to pull it back well.
7th - Swansea; Robbie Fowler: I think Swansea fans are still confused, they were confused when Fowler was announced, they were less confused when they started the season in utter relegation form and then all of sudden they hit form and finished 7th...how on earth did Robbie pull that off in his first season as a manager.
8th - Leicester; Craig Shakespeare: should've done better really...they were sat 4th for most of the season but just fell away towards the end.
9th - Newcastle; Jamie Carragher: Lets just say this went much better than his MNF colleague Gary Nevilles first foray into management...and as you'll see later on Gary Nevilles second foray into management too...
10th - Southampton; Paul Simpson: Given his recent success with England's under 20s, it seemed fitting for Paul to take the helm at the best producer of youngsters in England, 10th seems like a solid performance.
11th - Bournemouth; Ledley King: decent return from Ledley, difficult task for anyone to replace Howe at Bournemouth so they'll be more than happy with mid table.
12th - West Ham; Rio Ferdinand: another solid enough performance, Rio heading back to where it all began and well, they were never in danger of relegation so fair play I guess.
13th- Stoke; Alan Pardew: Pards might have thought these new rules would be his big chance at a top job, but nope, Stoke unimaginatively came calling and they had an entirely Stoke season.
14th Everton; Gareth Southgate: Southgate proved himself to be about as much use as a chocolate fire guard, leading Everton to 19th and being first sacked in November, Arsene Wenger made a triumphant return to the league and saved them a bit.
15th - Crystal Palace; Steve Holland: Having spent a career behind the scenes, Steve finally had a chance at the top job...it didn't last long, sacked in December, replaced by Rui Garcia.
16th - West Brom; James Beattie: it was a strange choice to appoint a man who's only managerial experience was with Accrington Stanley...and it proved a terrible one, sacked in December, Replaced by Roberto Martinez.
17th - Watford; Aidy Boothroyd: Aidys back, after leading them to the premier division in 2007 he kind of slipped away to irrelevance but he's back and he's got a point to prove...he got sacked in February...Sorry Aidy, you tried I guess...
18th - Brighton; Chris Hughton...I'm gonna be honest, I forgot he was Irish...he got sacked in March, it didn't save them from relegation..
19th - Huddersfield; Gary Neville: Gary Nevilles managerial career is really not going great, after being appointed to new boys Huddersfield he took the bold step of not making any signings...it didn't go well, somehow though he kept his job till the end...so that's something I guess Gary?
20th - Burnley; Jim Bentley: Burnley made another bold choice in appointing Morecambe manager Jim Bentley...it actually started well, they sat fifth in September and Bentley took home manager of the month and then he got a touch of the Mike Phelans, didn't win again, slipped down the league and got sacked, replaced by another bold choice in John Toshack...who also got sacked 2 months later...
Edit: Update; Kept this holidaying all day to see if any of the Englishman held down there jobs...only 3 managed it, sort of...Sean Dyche stayed at Arsenal until 2018, then took over England for 6 years, coming runner up at the euros and making the World Cup semis before triumphantly returning to take a relegation threatened gunners. Up to 11th and then a 6th placed finish the next season. Eddie Howe remains at Spurs despite having only won 2 games cups and 2 league cups and failing to finish in the top 4 more than he's finished in it. Rio Ferdinand remains the only other manager still in the league having jumped ship from West Ham to Bournemouth.
Posted Jun 17, 2017, 12:17 PM UTC · edited