Top 5 most overhyped managers in football

The likes of Antonio Conte, Zinedine Zidane and Jose Mourinho continued to affirm their position as Europe’s greatest managers, all winning different trophies for their respective clubs.

However, many other managers continued to fall in the estimation of the average football fan, emphasising their status as ‘overhyped’.

Here are 5 managers who fall into that category:

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5) Thomas Tuchel

Touched is now favourite for the vacant managerial role at Bayern Munich

Thomas Tuchel is mainly overhyped for his time managing Borussia Dortmund, but, he was hardly successful during his reign at the club.

He boasts a 62.96% win percentage with his time at the club. However, Dortmund finished third in his second season, when they should have been Bayern Munich’s biggest challenges for the Bundesliga title.

Their expansive system meant they remained very weak defensively. In his second season, compared to his first, Dortmund finished 14 points worse off, lost two more games and conceded six more goals - finishing behind Bayern and newly-promoted RB Leipzig.

Yet, he looks favourite to succeed Ancelotti at Bayern, which seems quite ridiculous given his lack of success and Bayern’s stature as a club. The two do not compare.

Tuchel has spent just a few months out of management, but could be persuaded to take the Bayern job if it is offered to him. We will then really see if the German is overhyped, or worth the hype that surrounds him for his time at Dortmund.

4) Unai Emery

Emery's team suffered a huge meltdown at the Nou Camp in March

A 4-0 lead for Paris Saint-Germain heading to the Camp Nou should have meant 'Game Over' in the Round of 16 in last season’s UEFA Champions League. But, Unai Emery’s side suffered a nightmare collapse.

Even with an away goal scored by Edinson Cavani, three goals conceded in the final two minutes plus stoppage time saw PSG ejected out of the Champions League by Barcelona.

Emery led Sevilla to three successive UEFA Europa League trophies, which was truly incredible. But given the players he has managed at PSG, who are far superior to the ones he had at Sevilla, he has been quite unsuccessful.

Ligue 1 should be won by PSG every season. AS Monaco have a very good side, but it doesn’t compare to PSG’s riches and for them to miss out on the title last season emphasises that his tenure at the French club has been quite poor.

He will most probably be successful with Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Dani Alves all having signed, but their disaster at the Camp Nou and failing to win the league last season strongly confirms Emery is slightly overhyped as a manager.

3) Harry Redknapp

Redknapp has recently been sacked by Birmingham

England fans were urging the FA to appoint Harry Redknapp before Roy Hodgson’s was unveiled as England manager in 2012. In hindsight, they are probably glad he was never appointed.

The Englishman has never had a win percentage over 50% with a league club, even during his time at Spurs which, still to this day, was hailed by many as an unbelievable time in his managerial career.

Most recently, Redknapp took over at Birmingham. He initially helped them survive at the end of last season. However, after signing 14 players in the summer, he suffered six successive defeats, and was sacked by the Championship club, in what will most likely be his final managerial job.

Birmingham was the second club where he has had more defeats than wins during his managerial spells at them clubs, the other being QPR, who he ran into the ground financially and left when the going got tough.

There are still people out there though, who think he has been a good manager over a long career. He is one of the most overhyped managers in history, especially in England, even with his reputation falling quite dramatically in the last few years.

2) Ronald Koeman

Despite lots of signings, Foeman's Everton side have made a horrendous start to the season in all competitions

Could Ronald Koeman be close to the sack at Everton? A poll for @ReadEverton on Twitter, one of the leading Everton fan pages, had 79% of the votes in favour of ‘Koeman out’, a resounding figure.

At six of his eight previously managed clubs, he has spent two years or less managing them, suggesting he is certainly not a man for long-term management. With his current situation at Everton, it looks like that trend could continue.

He has had some minor success, winning three Eredivisie titles, with two different teams. However, the Eredivisie is a weak league and he led Ajax and PSV to titles, two of the most dominant teams in the division.

He led Southampton to their highest ever points tally, but the Saints' devout fans wouldn't agree if they were asked if his style of play was exciting. Often, it was a case of the defenders hitting long balls to Pelle and him heading down to Mane, which was sometimes effective but hardly impressive.

Koeman's current management and style of play at Everton, and the other clubs he managed before Southampton certainly doesn’t warrant the hype he gets.

1) Jurgen Klopp

Klopp has lost five straight finals as manager of Dortmund and Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp kept Coutinho this summer, but it is only delaying the inevitable and denying Liverpool funds to spend in an area they need a huge improvement, at centre back.

The likes of Antonio Conte, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola would have sold the player and enhanced the area the team is struggling in, showing the difference between Klopp and those top managers.

Central defence is a position he has now failed to improve for 2 years, and it is hindering Liverpool's chances of challenging for trophies, with his expansive style meaning they concede lots of goals.

In his first season, Liverpool conceded 50 goals, the second most in the top eight of the Premier League. And his team then conceded 42 once again in the next season, the second most in the top six.

His time at Dortmund was more successful, winning the Bundesliga title twice. However, they did finish in seventh in his final season, a dramatic fall from his otherwise successful tenure.

Currently, though, Klopp's Liverpool team continue to drop points against teams lower in the league table due to his negligence of the defensive issues at the club, playing either Dejan Lovren or Ragnor Klavan regularly, two players who have been appalling throughout their time at Liverpool.

Klopp is arguably the most overhyped manager in football at the moment.