Ten Hag, Klopp, Guardiola: Algorithm names the world's best manager

Who is the best manager in the world?

It’s a question that is guaranteed to split a room full of football fans into at least five sections with angry shouts of ‘Jurgen Klopp’, ‘Pep Guardiola’, ‘Carlo Ancelotti’ and even some rogue hipster names bounded about the room.

Just like naming the best male or female player in the business, it’s ultimately a subjective exercise and everything from transfer funds, dressing room morale, pure timing and much, much more can impact upon a coach’s performance.

It is, after all, one of the most cutthroat jobs in life where you’re only ever five defeats away from being shown the door if you haven’t got any credit in the bank.

Nevertheless, for all the squabbling that would take place in our hypothetical hall of supporters, you could rest assured that there would be some level of consensus on the managers who are at least in the conversation.

Sure, you might not believe that Klopp is the world number one, but if you don’t think he’s knocking on the door of that status then you might need to tune in for a few more Liverpool games.

And in the absence of any clear answer amongst these universally-agreed-upon contenders, then we need to turn to different means to settle the debate and the team over at FootballTransfers might just have the answer.

That’s because they released a “Manager Power Rankings’ upon the conclusion of the 2021/22 season in early June that uses a ‘bespoke algorithm’ in order to decide who the world’s best coach really is.

The algorithm takes in a ‘huge number of factors’ that includes: club current form (adjusted for the strength of the competition); European form; style of play; reputation; media buzz; recent trophies won; experience and recent additional achievements.