Ten Hag, Guardiola, Arteta: Football's 10 best dressed managers

In an age where football can’t escape the grips of tactics, philosophies and the importance of results, the quirks of the game are often overlooked.

Gone are the days of tracksuit managers, barking orders from the touchline and batting away any ideas of single pivots and underlapping runs. It’s all about making the game complex, eking out the fine margins. That’s how you get to the top.

Well, that and dressing smart. Seriously. A manager with a solid handle of their dress sense is more than likely destined for a shot at the top. It’s just the rules. Fashionable football is all the range, and it starts on the touchline.

GIVEMESPORT has decided to pay homage to those coaches who value the simple things such as dressing well. Here are ten of football’s smartest looking managers.

The Italian has been setting the pace for years now. If it’s not well-styled scarves paired with long coats, it’s a suit and tie with a blazer held effortlessly over the shoulder. Mancini is a true touchline style icon. He keeps his work simple, but boy does he pull it off. The height of fashion.

Manchester United have been lacking style and substance in just about every department for as long as we can all remember. Even if Erik ten Hag is unable to change that on the pitch, he’ll most definitely bring a sharp improvement to their touchline approach. Smart coats, scarves, suit pants and shirts – he’s a traditionalist, but he means business.

One simply cannot be the best manager in the world without backing it up in the fashion department. Fortunately for Pep Guardiola, he absolutely does that. Not afraid to move away from the status quo of a suit and tie, the Manchester City boss throws in some tremendous outfits that involve cargo pants, t-shirts