Top 5 Young Managers

I would like to know who you think are the top 5 young managers currently working in the English football pyramid.
Mine would be a bit biased as I would have:
1. Paul Lambert - Norwich
2. Brendan Rogers - Swansea
3. Andre Villas Boas - Chelsea
4. Karl Robinson - MK Dons
5. Eddie Howe - Burnley

i agree with lambert and rogers but avb should be no 5 otherwise your list is good

Agree with the above. Good article. Quite a lot of young manager floating around these days. Must be a tough task. Especially at Chelsea where probably 4-5 players are OLDER than the manager!

I'd like to add Roberto Martinez to the list. He did a great job at Swansea and build the ethos to which they still adhere to today. He's done well to keep Wigan up and playing attractive football for a team in their position. Be interesting to see what he'd do at a big club with a bit of cash.

I'd agree with Martinez.

He wants his teams to play football properly, and seems like a nice, loyal bloke too after turning down the Villa job last summer.

1=).Martinez
1=).Lambert
3).Howe
4).Robinson
5).Chris Powell
Too early to rate but off to a promising start: Michael Appleton

AVB's net achievement has so far been negative. If he can't maintain a positive relationship with Lampard, god help the rest of his non-Portuguese players.
Jury out on Rodgers, still not completely clear why he failed at Reading but promising with Swansea.

Lee Bradbury doing a decent job with Bournemouth

Lee Clark doing well with Huddersfield as well.

1. Lambert - Norwich
2. Rogers - Swansea
3. AVB - Chelsea
4. Robinson - MK Dons
5. Howe - Burnley
6. Martinez - Wigan
7. Clark - Huddersfield
8. Powell - Charlton
9. Saunders - Doncaster
10. Bradbury - Bournemouth

That would be my top 10!!

Paul Dickov is doing a good job at Oldham on a shoe string budget and mainly youth and loanee squad.

Clark would be in the top five for me. think he will kick on in the next few years

Can't say AVB is nowhere near the list considering what he done with Porti last year.

I'm throwing Dougie Freedman into the hat. Had bugger all players and resources and kept us up at Palace and a seadon later we are hovering around the playoffs and in a cup semi final!! His attention to detail is immense and I think we have not been this optimistic since the Dowie era!

Derek McInnes

The_Essence_of_Excellence wrote:I'm throwing Dougie Freedman into the hat. Had bugger all players and resources and kept us up at Palace and a seadon later we are hovering around the playoffs and in a cup semi final!! His attention to detail is immense and I think we have not been this optimistic since the Dowie era!

I saw your game against United and was impressed. Ambrose's goal is by far the best goal I have seen for many a season. Freedman 1 Ferguson 0!

hodge wrote:Derek McInnes

Still got to prove himself to me yet. Made a good start but has to continue.

yeah hopefully he can takes us that one stage further that Johnson never managed. I'm 100% sure his next job will be a premier league one though

I want to throw Richie Barker's name into the hat. Nobpdy gave us a chance this year and we lost our 2 best players at the end of the last transfer window, yet we are comfortably mid table and doing well

davidl1061 wrote:I want to throw Richie Barker's name into the hat. Nobpdy gave us a chance this year and we lost our 2 best players at the end of the last transfer window, yet we are comfortably mid table and doing well

I'm gonna be honest mate, I haven't heard of him. Just looked him up and he is very young but is doing an excellent job at the moment. Definately one for the future if he can continue and progress.

think people are being harsh on avb after what he did at porto last season. there has been plenty of managers who have fallen foul of the chelsea dressing room including a world cup winner. the likes of terry lampard drogba have been running that dressing room for too long and were first choice for a while no matter how they were playing. i respect avb for dropping lampard, he was playing poorly so he got dropped. he's also got the hard job of turing round a ageing squad and moulding into one of his own.

To be honest we only knew who he was because he was our youth team manager, came in at the end of last season and won 7 of 9 games to win prommotion. Everybody thought that may be on the back of what the team were already doing and the real test of him would be this season. We started well, had a littlwe blip but he is doing really well so far and no Bury fan will have any complaints!

Nicky Barmby is doing a good job.

He's officially been made the permanent boss of Hull.

Quite right as well. A local hero who has started really well.

Malky McKay, Dougie Freedman. Simon Grayson.

That Alex Ferguson lad looks like he could become something special.

invincibleILeak (CL-6WF) wrote:That Alex Ferguson lad looks like he could become something special.

I always thought he was younger than he looked!

Brendan Rodgers
Lee Clark
Eddie Howe
Malky Mackay
Andre Villa-Boas

nissan wrote:Brendan Rodgers
Lee Clark
Eddie Howe
Malky Mackay
Andre Villa-Boas

No Paul Lambert?????

I suppose it depends on what you'd consider to be young.

Neil Lennon's done pretty well domestically.

I think you will find that Derek MacKinnes proved himself at Perth.

Stephen Pressley is doing a great job at Falkirk. He had a team playing a couple of weeks ago that included four 17 year olds.

Strange how Paul Lambert did not set the heather on fire in Scotland but has had non stop success in England.

The fact that Lee Clark has done well amazes me. Always meant to be as thick as a plank and a jack the lad. Not that I think you have to be an intellectual giant to be a football manager, far from it indeed, but you would expect the brighter, more articulate guys to do better but clearly that isn't always the case.