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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta now in top 10 all-time best Premier League managers on PPM

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Mkel Arteta has edged past Mauricio Pochettino, Louis van Gaal and Andre Villas-Boas in recent weeks as Arsenal have won nine of ten this season.

The cut-off point is 50 games and there is no surprise at the lower/higher reaches of this list.

10) Mikel Arteta (Arsenal): 1.8 pts per game

This really is quite the company Mikel Arteta is keeping, 104 games into his management career at Arsenal. The Gunners lead the Premier League and now find themselves second favourites for the title. The truth is that they have spent a hell of a lot to get there, but Arteta has excelled in creating a young, exciting team.

9) Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea and Everton): 1.84 pts per game

The Italian has managed in all five major European leagues and his Premier League record is comfortably the lowest of the lot, which is something that can be laid very much at the feet of Everton. It still feels like a fever dream that he managed Everton.

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8) Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea): 1.94 pts per game

Good but ultimately not good enough for Chelsea, who sacked him in September 2022 with the Blues in sixth place. Was it harsh? Very much so. Do Chelsea look better for sacking him? Also very much so.

7) Arsene Wenger (Arsenal): 1.96 pts per game

The high of the Invincibles (2.37 PPM) became the low of his final season in charge of Arsenal (1.66 RPM), long after he probably should have walked away. Sticking around longer than he was welcome probably cost him a few places on this list.

6) Jose Mourinho (Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham): 2.03 pts per game

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His final half-season at Chelsea was disastrous, his final half-season at Manchester United was little better, and Tottenham was always an uneasy union that never quite felt comfortable. But there is no doubt that Jose Mourinho constructed one of the great Premier League sides first time round at Chelsea. He would be wise to resist a return that would taint his legacy further.

5) Roberto Mancini (Manchester City): 2.05 pts per game

He won Manchester City’s first Premier League title. What more do you want? Well, lots more apparently; he was sacked a year after he won that title having apparently failed to hit certain targets. It now feels ludicrous that City would ever go a whole year without winning silverware but 2013 was a different time.

4) Antonio Conte (Chelsea and Tottenham): 2.12 pts per game

He might be a cantankerous sod that could bugger off any minute, but my word he is good at winning football matches. He won the Premier League title in his first season at Chelsea and even a poor second season could dull his shine. Spurs are currently very clearly punching.

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3) Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool): 2.13 pts per game

The 2.61 PPM of the title-winning year then became 1.82 as the Reds stumbled. That he pulled that number back up to 2.42 last season is remarkable, but this season has undoubtedly been an absolute sh*t-show. Basically every player is worse.

2) Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United): 2.16 pts per game

In 21 Premier League seasons, Ferguson’s Manchester United side only twice dropped below the two points per game mark. That is nothing short of remarkable consistency from a brilliant manager who managed to build three great, great sides. Most will forever see him as the GOAT whatever the man above/below him on this list achieves.

1) Pep Guardiola (Manchester City): 2.35 pts per game

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-Football365

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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