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Vishal Pradhan

Top 5 Football managers in 2022

Updated: Jul 27, 2023


Top managers in football

1. Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti has to be the number one manager in the world of today, His Real Madrid team of 2021-22 have had an excellent campaign

Carlo Ancelotti was enduring a nightmare spell with Everton in Premier League, His team constantly struggled and seemed to be lacking serious quality on the field.


Ancelotti took a Madrid team who were in their rebuilding phase. Although they managed to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League the previous season, that Real Madrid team was far from its best.


Real Madrid was in a rebuilding phase when Ancelotti took over, With Real Madrid changing its club policy by favouring young players he had now to work with young players.


Ancelotti revived Benzema, who turned out to be the main reason for Real Madrid season success previous season simultaneously rise of Vinicius also favoured Ancelotti to create a formidable team.


Real Madrid went on to win the Champions League 14 times, and Ancelotti also wrapped up the La Liga title by the end of the season


In the process Ancelotti's team was able to accomplish a fairytale of Champions League season, with comeback wins against PSG, Chelsea, Manchester City.


2. Pep Guardiola


Pep Guardiola needs no introduction to the world of Football, The Spaniard who mastered the Tiki-Taka Philosophy is without a doubt among the best managers in the world


His Manchester City side, won their 6th Premier League title, and the title fight during the 2021-22 season was seemingly among the most exciting in recent history.


With last day action, Pep Guardiola's side was able to make a comeback against Aston Villa in the do-or-die game which Ultimately won them the Premier League title.


Pep Guardiola has transformed Manchester City into an invincible force, With high press, Possessive Football Manchester City still seems to have a lot to offer.


Pep Guardiola was also able to take his Manchester side to Champions League Final in the 2021 season Ultimately losing out to Chelsea.


3. Jurgen Klopp


Underestimating Jurgen Klopp’s influence on Liverpool would be criminal, Jurgen Klopp has flipped the Premier League side into a winning machine.


His Liverpool side was in contention for all the major trophies in the Footballing world, Liverpool team was favourites of winning all four


With EPL and Carabao cup in their Pockets, Liverpool Fought manchester City till the last game of the season, Missing out just by one point, Surely a heartbreak but the Champions League was on the horizon


Unfortunately, Jurgen Klopp's Side could not win the mental battle with Ancelotti’s men missing out on both Major trophies.


Nevertheless, to keep that Injury prone Liverpool in all four titles contention was a marvelous achievement of all. Liverpool still has serious chances to go for their 7th Champions league trophy.


4. Hansi Flick


World’s Most criminally Underrated Coach Hansi Flick is a German Mastermind Monster who is known for his demolition of Mighty Barcelona with a scoreline of 8-2 in the 2020 Champions League campaign


He is also from very few managers who have won a treble. Hansi Flick's high pressing style mastered by his players in Bayern Munich gave him a ruthless nature to go all out for blood.


With a very high Line defence, Bayern was vulnerable to counterattack, but the ruthless Press covered for that weakness, Averaging 5 goals per match Hansi Flick managed to turn that Bayern Munich side into a winning machine.


Hansi Flick has absolute knowledge about German Football, growing up in Germany Hansi Flick knows about the talent that comes in from Germany. Hence he could be very effective for German Football during the Qatar World Cup.


He was the assistant manger of Joachim Low in 2014 World Cup.


5. Thomas Tuchel


After his departure from PSG Thomas Tuchel was announced as the head coach of the Chelsea Football Club, Tuchel was able to win the Champions League with that Chelsea side in 2021 against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.


Tuchel revived Chelsea after the Lampard era, he managed to bring out the best from players like Antonio Rudiger, N’golo Kante, Mason Mount, and Havertz.


Although Tuchel didn't manage to do any effective change for Chelsea in Premier League, he was able to bring the best to Chelsea during its hard times.


Thomas Tuchel was also the main when Chelsea was in financial danger of losing its right's due to its owner being a Russian Oligarch.

Tuchel was able to hold that team together in difficult times not giving outer factors to hold responsible for team performance. Otherwise in this situation manager would be the first to leave.

He was able to qualify Chelsea for Champions League Football despite all these crises, In the European stage Tuchel only fell short of majestic Ancelotti’s Real Madrid in Bernabeu, A game in Which Chelsea was outstanding, It was the players who made the real difference at the end.






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