Liverpool’s Arne Slot, Chelsea’s Enzo Maresca, Nuno Santo of Nottingham Forest, Brighton’s new man Fabian Hurzeler, and still a few others are potential candidates to win the Premier League Manager of the Season award at the 15-match point of the season.
A lot can change between now and the end of the season, obviously, but there is no doubt that, as of right now, Slot has to be the clear frontrunner to win the Premier League Manager of the Season award.
It’s not just about the fact that Liverpool are first in the league, because the best manager of the season isn’t necessarily the coach of the best team in the league. Sometimes, the best manager is the one who gets the most out of an underdog or rights the ship for a team in a difficult patch.
Liverpool, though, are the best team in the Premier League by some margin. It truly feels like nobody is second and [that the four-point lead](https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/2/England-Premier-League) Liverpool have over Chelsea in second – with an additional game in hand after the postponement of the Merseyside derby – is triple that number.
The Reds are in first after finishing third last season and then not even in the top four in the season before that. In his first season as Liverpool manager, Slot has outperformed Jurgen Klopp, improving the Reds further and, if anything, proving Klopp’s assertion right that it was indeed time for him to step down for the betterment of the club.
On top of all that, Slot is getting more out of Liverpool players who were sagging last season. Alexis Mac Allister is ripping it up like he was at Brighton, Luis Diaz is back to being the best left winger in the entire Premier League, Cody Gakpo has become legitimately world-class in the attack, and, most of all, Ryan Gravenberch and Curtis Jones are forming one of the best midfield axes in world football right now.
Liverpool sitting in first in the Premier League is not by fluke, and they are far and away the best team in not just the Premier League but also in Europe as a whole. They recently eviscerated Real Madrid, their Champions League nightmare of tournaments past, 2-0 for good measure, too.
Slot is the king of the Premier League, and with all due respect to how Maresca has turned Chelsea around and the way Hurzeler is outpacing Roberto De Zerbi in Brighton, the Dutchman is in a league of his own as far as managers go.
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