Chelsea and Spurs amongst the most trigger-happy Premier League clubs
We are due our first managerial sacking of the Premier League season any minute now, sowe are looking back over the past 10 years to see which clubs are the most trigger-happy. To set some ground rules, we have gone back to the summer of 2016 and only included clubs that were in the Premier League for that whole period, with one minor exception.
We have also mostly excluded caretaker managers except in one particular case. With those parameters in mind, here are the 10 permanent Premier League clubs who have changed manager in the last 10 years.
8=) Arsenal - Two changes Unai Emery - 78 games at 1.85 PPG Mikel Arteta - 369 games at 2.04 PPG If we wind the clock back 10 years, we still somehow had three more seasons of Arsene Wenger. He finally retired at the start of the 2018/19 season and Arsenal's pick for his replacement was Unai Emery.
But despite his success bookending that spell, he never really made it work during his Arsenal tenure. He was not helped by the squad he inherited - which had a lot of big egos - but he was either unable or did not have the credit in the bank to make wholesale changes.
He left with 1.85 points per game (PPG) - notthatbad, but Arteta has taken them to a new level. The Spaniard was a risky appointment and had big 'always the bridesmaid' vibes, but he has delivered a Premier League title and looks odds-on to do so again this year.
8=) Manchester City - Two changes Pep Guardiola - 593 games at 2.27 PPG Enzo Maresca - 17 games at 2.12 PPG After designing their whole club around him, hiring Pep Guardiola unsurprisingly worked out quite well for City. With suspiciously deep pockets, Guardiola managed a 2.27 PPG ratio over 593 matches, which isthe best in Premier League historyof any manager with over 10 games on their CV.
Guardiola won the lot - although it may soon mean very little - and left in the summer to be replaced by Enzo Maresca, who has so far managed 2.12 PPG from his 17 matches. 8=) Liverpool - Two changes Arne Slot - 113 games at 1.91 PPG Andoni Iraola - 16 games at 2.06 PPG Jurgen Klopp's tenure came to an end ahead of the 2024/25 season and Liverpool appeared to have done their homework when they hired Arne Slot.
He won the title in his first season and while suggesting that it was purely down to the squad left to him is a little harsh, he did have the benefits of massive collapses by both Arsenal and City while Mo Salah produced one of the best seasons of his career. Slot's time came to an end in the summer with Andoni Iraola taking over.
It has been a little slow going with Liverpool yet to hit their free-scoring best, but it's a decent start. 6=) Brighton and Hove Albion - Three changes Graham Potter - 134 games at 1.28 PPG Roberto De Zerbi - 89 games at 1.51 PPG Fabian Hurzeler - 105 games at 1.66 PPG Given the brilliance of their player recruitment, it is unsurprising that every new manager Brighton hires improves on the old one.