Mourinho is the fan favourite but was he Man Utd's best manager in the post-Fergie era?
FT Desk
- 31 Mar 2022 21:29 BST
- 3 min read
Jose Mourinho has been voted as the most successful manager at Manchester United since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Although the legendary Scottish manager hasn’t been in charge of the Old Trafford club since 2013, his legacy casts a long shadow over the club and the men that have tried to emulate him on the touch line.
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None have come close to doing so, with the club still searching for a Premier League title in the post-Fergie era.
However, according to a new poll from Man Utd fan blog “The Busy Babe”, fans of the English giants have voted Mourinho has the best of the rest when it comes to who gave the best shot at it in the past eight years.
44% Mourinho. Save us from this fanbase.
This is a very cool poll that guides you through a thought process along the way, and you can make it even cooler by participating https://t.co/ND4MwAVvYM pic.twitter.com/CtzIHH5t0u— Aaron Moniz (@amonizfootball) March 31, 2022
The “Special One” picked up 44 percent of the vote, narrowly beating Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on 43 percent, while Louis Van Gaal won 12 percent of the vote. David Moyes managed just one percent.
But who has statistically been the best Man Utd manager since Ferguson left the club?
Who has been the best post-Fergie Man Utd manager?
While there are many different ways to judge managers, when we boil it down to who picked up the most points in the Premier League.
Unsurprisingly, the first man tasked with replacing Ferguson in that regard failed miserably, as David Moyes picked up an average of just 1.68 points per game in the English top flight.
Reports Ten Hag has been interviewed this week . If formal interviews have started and with it being such a public process I would expect a new manager announcement within a week or so.
Who do United fans want ?— Gary Neville (@GNev2) March 23, 2022
The Old Trafford club then tried to go back to the methods of appointing an elder statesman in Louis Van Gaal, who certainly did better than Moyes but still only managed 1.79 points per Premier League game.
After the Dutch tactician, Man Utd pushed the big red button and hired Jose Mourinho, who did notably better with a return of 1.89 points per game for the Old Trafford side.
He was then replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who lasted a reasonable amount of time before being dismissed earlier this year. He left the club with a points per Premier League game average of 1.81.
Surprisingly enough, the club’s current interim manager Ralf Rangnick is currently in the lead by some distance in this regard, with an average of 1.93 points per game.
