With the 2022/2023 season completed, we review the achievements of the 20 PL managers this term. Who did elite level jobs? How about the failures? And who were just alright? Take a look at what we think.
N. B: Finishing positions are not the sole basis for our ratings though they play a part.
1. Jurgen Klopp ---------- Liverpool (5th)
From coming close to a quadruple to missing out on the champions league, it's been a big fall from grace for the Reds.
It was a disappointing season. No matter how Klopp tries to paint it. For the Liverpool side he has built, this should simply not happen. But it is football. Liverpool will play in the Europa League. They have returned to where Klopp met them over seven years ago when he arrived in England.
The biggest problem was that the midfield collapsed. Liverpool's midfield has seen the least input in terms of investment under Klopp.
However, the system switch in the final couple of months of the season started a late surge towards the top four. It was too little too late. There are genuine issues to sort out over the summer.
2. Roy Hodgson ---------- Crystal Palace ( 11th)
Okay, Palace didn't have a great start to 2023 under Vieira and the Frenchman was sacked.
Roy Hodgson came in and oversaw the resurgence of the Eagles. The 11th-place finish is impressive for them after such a start. It is just another regular season at Selhurst.
3. David Moyes ---------- West Ham United ( 14th)
It is only the winning of the Europa Conference League that can take the status of West Ham's season to good potentially.
For the investment made in the summer, the dropoff is disappointing and David Moyes is quite lucky to still be in the dugout.
To be fair, it has been a challenging campaign with injuries to some key players, but some of the performances have not been good enough.
They can qualify for the Europa League by winning the Conference League but the fourteenth place is a far cry from the back-to-back seventh-placed finishes over the last couple of seasons.
4. Sean Dyche ---------- Everton ( 18th)
It is quite simple. It would have been a failure if Everton had gone down. Not that it would have been a particular fault of his.
Truth is, Dyche struggled to get Everton firing. Firing is even a stretch with the Toffees. However, they made it. They survived.
Dyche has something to potentially build on if the club's deep-rooted problems are hopefully addressed over the summer.
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