Premier League confirm five nominees for Manager of the Season
The Premier League has announced the five candidates up for the Manager of the Season award for the 2023-24 campaign.
Ever since the 2017-18 season, Manchester City's Pep Guardiola and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp have shared the accolade between them exclusively, scooping four and two prizes respectively.
Guardiola won his fourth Manager of the Season prize last term and is unsurprisingly up for the accolade again this time around, as Man City go in search of a fourth straight title.
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach has overseen 25 wins from 35 top-flight matches so far, leaving the Citizens second in the table behind Arsenal but in control of their fate.
The reigning champions are just one point adrift of the Gunners with a game in hand, and winning each of their remaining three games would see them become the first side in Premier League history to win four successive titles.
Mikel Arteta, Jurgen Klopp among nomineesGuardiola's previous Manager of the Season triumphs in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023 means he has won the second-most end-of-season awards out of all Premier League head coaches, only behind Sir Alex Ferguson's 11.
The Catalonian's departing nemesis Klopp is also one of the five nominees for the 2023-24 award, which would be his third accolade after also taking home the trophy in 2019-20 and 2021-22.
In what is his last season in the Anfield hotseat, Klopp has taken an injury-hit Liverpool back to the Champions League and — until recently — masterminded a Premier League title push alongside Arsenal and Man City.
The Reds, who sit third in the table, can still mathematically still be crowned English champions, but they will be eliminated from contention if Man City or Arsenal win just one of their
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