Ultimate Manager Death Match - Premier League 2016/17

It's shaping up to be epic...

Klopp at Liverpool
Wenger at Arsenal
Simeone to Chelsea?
Pep to Manchester City?
Mourinho to Manchester United?



Pep and José as city rivals - the lows Mourinho will sink to will be unprecedented

Get in

Spoiler:

Hopefully we can hire Bielsa

Pulis vs Pep
Clash of two extreme football philosophies

Supporting Cast:

Pochettino at Spurs
Bilic at West Ham
Martinez at Everton
Koeman Bros. at Southampton
Bielsa at Swansea
Sir Alex Pardew at Newcastle
Julen Lopetegui at Stoke
Al Pacino at Watford
Brendan Rodgers at Middlesborough

Also
Guardiola vs Pardiola
Tiki taka in shadow of hoofball

Is this GL's dream coming true? These match ups are unreal.

Hapless_Hans wrote:It's shaping up to be epic...

Klopp at Liverpool
Wenger at Arsenal
Simeone to Chelsea?
Pep to Manchester City?
Mourinho to Manchester United?



Pep and José as city rivals - the lows Mourinho will sink to will be unprecedented

Get in

Spoiler:

How could you forget Pardew and Big Sam

Guardiola vs SAP most interesting clash imo

I think SAP will expose this fraud badly.

@Hapless_Hans
Don't insult SAP like that.He's now at a better club than Newcastle.

Best League in the world

Ok so Simeone didn't come, instead we got.

Jose at Utd
Pep at City
Klopp at Pool
Wenger at Arsenal
Poch at Spurs
Conte at Chelsea

I'll disregard the rest, no offense.
Let's make a table of direct duels, 3 point win, 1 point draw.

Standings so far:

Klopp 3
Pep, Conte, José, Poch, Wenger 0

Shame that Allardici is not present to battle it out with his fellow great managers.

Smh even Hans shafting Pardew.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Ok so Simeone didn't come, instead we got.

Jose at Utd
Pep at City
Klopp at Pool
Wenger at Arsenal
Poch at Spurs
Conte at Chelsea

I'll disregard the rest, no offense.
Let's make a table of direct duels, 3 point win, 1 point draw.

Standings so far:

Klopp 3
Pep, Conte, José, Poch, Wenger 0

Didn't Spurs draw

manager v manager duels

Need some of them to turn though, hopefully Wenger turns heel.

I hope you guys realize that in the opening post, I called Leicester to win the title last December

I propose 4 points for an away win, 3 for a home win, 2 for an away draw and 1 for a draw at home.

Basically, a 1 point bonus for getting a result away. These are all big teams, and they should be fortresses at home.

Agreed?

Raineri deserves to be in the mix. Also Slaven Bilic tbf.

And Koeman, then we will have a much more interesting and regular update here

Great idea.

Revised table

Klopp 4
Pep, Mou, Poch, Conte, Wenger 0

How is that a great idea smfh.

Why should an away win count more than a home win?

Sri wrote:Raineri deserves to be in the mix. Also Slaven Bilic tbf.

Sri wrote:And Koeman, then we will have a much more interesting and regular update here

No.
This is a match between hyped managers, not between all good managers.

Besides, Everton, probably West Ham, and surely Leicester, are not teams of the same caliber as the big six.
We need a table where the performance of the manager plays the most meaningful role, and the number of star players the least meaningful.

Just a proposal urbi, open to debate. I think it's fun, since away games to top sides should be hard(er) compared to playing at home.

For example, Arsenal find it incredibly difficult to win away at OT or Stamford Bridge. So outclassing the manager to win away should be worth just that little bit more?

Hapless_Hans wrote:
No.
This is a match between hyped managers, not between all good managers.

Besides, Everton, probably West Ham, and surely Leicester, are not teams of the same caliber as the big six.
We need a table where the performance of the manager plays the most meaningful role, and the number of star players the least meaningful.

Tottenham are a smaller club than you credit them for, in that case. So we should only really be talking about City, United, Chelsea (tier 1) and Arsenal, Liverpool (tier 2+).

If you want to focus on the big managers, then why does Pochettino get a place at that table? Bilic, Raineri and Koeman are of comparable calibre. With TV money, these teams have also done significant strengthening (ok, maybe not Soton or Spurs).

Take all of them in, and the performance of managers is what would count, with the entire squad at their disposal.