Sportskeeda Football Awards 2016: Manager of the Year 2016

#9 Massimiliano Allegri: Total Score = 4 (Experts pick 8; Fans vote 10 tied)

Allegri kisses the Scudetto – he has maintained Juve’s winning form throughout his tenure

Max Allegri was received at Juventus with rotten tomatoes and eggs thrown at his car, these days he is as revered as just about anyone who has manned the helm of the Grand Old Lady of Turin. Juve have dominated Serie A, and Allegri has just taken them from strength to strength.

He had a quite magnificent 26 run unbeaten run in the first half of the year as Juve tore away from their opposition in the league - despite struggling in their first ten games of the season and going as low as 12th place (in 2015) - as he guided a team struggling with the departure of Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and Carlos Tevez to the title with three games to spare.

He managed the same in the second half of this year by restructuring the team after the departure of Paul Pogba and the introduction of Gonzalo Higuain.

He has a brilliant overall record with Juventus – a win % of 69.17% and a total Goal Difference of 159 in 133 games speaks for itself. And it’s style of coaching that has endeared him the Bianconeri faithful.

As Andrea Pirlo said, Allegri's seemingly more relaxed attitude (after the non-stop intensity of Antonio Conte) to coaching worked wonders for the team and "...brought a sense of calm" to everyone, adding that he aided in endowing the players with a sense of confidence in their own abilities as he gave them a lot more freedom to exercise their creative sides.