Who are the next generation of ELITE managers? | Three Up Front 

Simon Jordan went from dissing RU-vidrs to becoming a RU-vidr. Life oh life!

Troy Deeney trying to look hard claiming he was working 22 hours a day, only for it to get lost amongst a tangent 😂

Xabi Alonso would find it very difficult competing against Pep. Arteta is elite for going toe to toe with the best manager in the world

What Simon says at 19:23 about Arteta going to Everton is just not true at all. He has literally done that exact said thing at Arsenal, with different circumstances and financial backing of course, but still the main point stands. I don't think anyone other than Arsenal fans realise how much of rut our club was in when Emery got sacked and Arteta took over. The attendance in Emery's final game tells the story of how truly bad it was at the time. Arteta slowly had to purge out all the bad seeds at the club and has had to set foundations in slowly to completely rebuild the club. I'm not saying Arteta can go to any struggling club in the world and replicate what he's done at Arsenal, but his ultimate mission was to get us back challenging for titles again and he has done that and that itself should be highly regarded.

Simon Jordan is unparalleled in his role; he fearlessly asks the tough questions

Simon’s next interviews should be with 1- Thomas Tuchel 2- Antonio Conte 3- Arsene Wenger Let’s see how he fares in these interviews.

Big Troy always sounds like he has a cold.

Best winning streak in the history of La Liga: 16 games (shared with Pep Guardiola)[326] Most consecutive away wins in the history of La Liga: 13 games[327] Manager with the lowest number of defeats after 100 games (in Spanish football): 8 losses[328] Manager with most trophies after 100 games (in Spanish football): 7 titles[329] Longest unbeaten run in Real Madrid history: 40 games[330] Longest unbeaten run in Spanish football: 40 games[330] First French manager, except the French-Argentinian Helenio Herrera, to win UEFA Champions League: 2015-16[331] Longest scoring run (all major competitions) in European football: 73 games[332] Only manager in history to win two consecutive UEFA Champions League trophies in its modern format: 2015-16, 2016-17[333] Only manager to win three consecutive European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals: 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18[334] Only manager in Real Madrid history to win four trophies in one season[335] Only manager in Real Madrid history to win the UEFA Super Cup twice[336] First manager to win two consecutive UEFA Super Cup titles since Arrigo Sacchi[335] Quickest manager in the history of the Top 5 Leagues to win 7 titles with a single club: 19 months[337] Quickest manager in the history of the Top 5 Leagues to win 8 titles with a single club: 23 months[338] Quickest manager in history to be named FIFA Football Coach of the Year: 653 days[337] Most The Best FIFA Football Coach awards: 3 in total[339] Only person in history to win the Onze d'Or award as a player and as a manager[340] Only person in history to win FIFA's Player of the Year award and Coach of the Year award[341] Only person in history to win the IFFHS award as the best playmaker and as a manager[342] Only person in history to win the FIFA Club World Cup trophy successively as a manager[343] Only manager in Real Madrid history to win five trophies in a calendar year[344] Only person in history to win the FIFA Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup twice as a player and twice as a manager[345] Only person in history to be named French Player of the Year twice and French Manager of the Year twice[346] Highest score for a manager winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award: 326 points[342] First manager to reach three consecutive UEFA Champions League finals since Marcello Lippi: 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18[

These discussions are good, keep them within an hour unlike what we're seeing elsewhere and this is easily gold

'The next city manager will succeed.' 'Why?' 'Because they've got great players.' 'Ok.' Scintillating

Great stuff guys

Brilliant, a longer episode

great stuff

Love the banter great chemistry between the three guys

My one stop shop if I want a football take on anything. A player, an owner, a manager. All angles covered. They know their onions.

I think you should be setting proper parameters for "elite coach". A successful coach doesnt necessarily mean an elite one, and sometimes they do go hand in hand. Im my humble opinion i think if a coach has his team in and amongst it consistently and has a real understanding of tactics and a gameplan, and/or can adapt to more expensive opposition, and shows can consistent progression, that would fall under elite.

Fantastic show

Another good episode 👍. I’d like to learn more about the priority process in signing new players - is talent the #1 requirement, or work ethic or mental toughness?

Great set of pundits. Love Troy Deeney!!!

the stare Souness gives Simon when he takes the mick out of his managerial career is priceless

Bring back the interviews

100 views in an hour.. The Troy Deeney effect.

Simon Jordan - ELITE Graeme Souness - ELITE Troy Deeney - Championship level footballer with a permanent cold

These are very hard to watch. Bring back a new interview every thursday

Do more interviews....this format has been done better by others and is done to death.

Sir Simon & Souness = Top LADS Proper Clobbers 💯 Facts and Troy

Xabi Alonso for sure

Great show guys

How do you not mention Eddie Howe when talking British Managers? The highest placed British manager the last two seasons.

27:37 'aint got a scooby' Fair play to Troy, no hesitation!!

Love your show guys, keep it up! Such big opinionated personalities, something that is diminishing nowadays.

Glasner at Palace,marriage made in heaven,Simon......

Simon actually goes easy on "his mates" lol.

what souness says about zidane, not taking a job with at a smaller club, can be thrown at pep...... yet pep is an elite manager?

Another question is ownership and how it has changed. Clubs who’s owners have other major commitments stretches their hemispheric approach towards their club. In recruitment or commercial services and identity and politics which at times puts the clubs as a mere part of a larger scheme of events

I like this trio

brilliant lineup owner , manager, player

22 hours a day?

isn't Eddie Howe a British manager in a top half team in the Premiere League....🤔

The disrespect to Eddie Howe is unreal

Just like players managers need confidence and there is a fine line between accountability and lack of confidence by the questions put forth. I believe with the modern increase of levels of administrative personnel the management or the coach is the easiest scapegoat. Another point is there is only a handful of clubs who can win the major trophies and if one cannot manage an elite club they are evidently less likely to be an elite manager.

How do you rate Brendon Roger and Big Ange guys?

unai emery - taking villa to multiple league titles and champions leagues - it's already written in the stars

Emery is ELITE!

What about Howe?

this is basically the overlap reserves team

Liverpool have the business model of a transfer committee and a Director of Football !!!!!!

I would suggest if, 3 upfront Martin O’Neil & Paul Ince

Surely Howe could well come under this bracket

The flaw in Souness' claim that success occurs when decisions are made by 'football people' is that he only considers the cases when the football people are successful - Wenger, Ferguson. He does not consider the times when 'football people' mismanage clubs, buy bad players and bankrupt clubs.

What’s with the breaks? There’s no adverts🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️just looks daft

😂😂😂 thought this was a skit. These 3 discussing who is the next elite manager writes itself

This group are a perfect fit … anytime I hear any of these speak, it always feels like they have a chip on their shoulder. Troy mmm maybe not as bad as them two

My favourite moment was when Simon Jordan thought he had a brainwave with the whole Statistics vs Facts argument. Stats are literally just a way to represent the facts. They're codependent.

As if you said David Moyes is the only British manager not working at the bottom , Eddie Howe doing a great job at Newcastle

Arteta is the next pep

Turn the microphones off

You have to give credit to Arteta, Most of the players he has now weren't "good enough" players to help Arsenal compete, he changed that by getting rid of the so called "best players" at the time in Auba and Ozil and retaining the "not so good" players, look at them now, I say he's the model manager and Coach, am still pissed off about Ramsdale but at this point, let him(Arteta) cook.

Graeme’s face at 9:22 😂

Its hard for any manager in the Premier league to become elite by the standards of winning things because of thee most elite manager in pep. The most you can hope for at the minute is to get close to them.

How does Alonso only get a 10 second mention?

Kieran Mckenna

Gary O'Neil Thomas frank are both very much capable ❤

Troy! Again? Fs

Three Up Front drinking challenge: do a shot every time you hear the word ‘pivot’, see if you can make it to the end of the show without requiring a stomach pump.

Arteta, Alonso!

I suppose there is a reason why Kompany can get relegated with Burnley and land a job at Bayern, while Dyche isn’t even top 50 on such a list. Dyche at City? Come on

He’s won nothing outside of a FA cup so Arteta has won something so tells you how Simon perceives Arteta which is from a negative 🤷🏾‍♂️

Who the f. Put Dyche in contention😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Gary O’Neil

It’s really not working this bring back upfront with Simon jordan.

A waste of 40 mins of my life! Waiting to hear about these upcoming managers. Mentioned Alonso for 5 seconds. Didn’t talk about Motta, Michel, Slot, etc. It’s obvious that these pundits only watch one league. Clueless!

Up front not 3 up front. Thank you

THats true the structure doesnt quite work. Arteta started aas a coach and very swiftly Arsenal made him a manager because he had to be able to call the shots

Tuchel needs a smaller club where he can get complete control

Moyes, Mark Hughes, Potter, Hodgson, Southgate, Lampard & Gerrard. All British managers who have fairly recently been given a chance in the biggest jobs in the country. All (to different extents) have failed. They get the chance and don’t take it.

This notion that Liverpool hasn't spent money is BS, Net Spend is BS as well.. Liverpool sold Philippe Continho for like £142 million ponds so add that to their Net Spend and so their spending goes up.quite a lot and without that they probably wouldn't have got Alisson or van Dijk and prices now are different to what they were in 2015 so if you are building a team now you ae generally going to more spending that one would started building their team in 2015 and has also sold good players since too so their outgoings is good too.

Arteta can do a job at EVERTON Pep im not so sure 👍

Who let them cookkkkkkkk🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Last year 'Arsenal would not challenge City again'. This year; 'Arsenal will win it next year'. Mr 'All or Nothing' Simon.

Re Player power, and tail wagging the dog. - That is simply down to weak owners. If the Board, say (of the manager) "This is our Manager, we back them 100%" - Then it knee caps this sometimes toxic attitude you see at Clubs. No one is going against Klopp at Liverpool, they'd be gone. No one is going against Guardiola, or Arteta or in the past Wenger or Ferguson. The difference now, is Owners/Boards, do not back the manager.

Simon Jordan: I think back to when I bought Crystal Palace, I look at the general overarching direction of travel in the football management sector, and the characters that make up a part of it, who for me don’t have the chops, then if you price in the development of football over the last 20 or so years, give or take, I’d take that every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Troy Deeney: I play Watford, innit.

Does Troy have a constant cold?

All Arteta does is copy Pep. People have short memories and forget that he was a mediocre player, signed as a replacement for Fabregas at 1/3 the cost, and was a 1/3 the player - after a year Van Persie had had enough and put in a transfer request, and that was the start of the end for Wenger.

If these views get any lower then youtube will demote them. A massive kick in the face for Jordan

Is Souness still going back to it? Is Simon pricing it in? Is Deeney still talking about his sentence for knicking a freddo frog? Stay tuned to find out.

Get rid of deeney and bring in KEANO then you have a mega show

Do you think Graeme would downplay his own achievements if he’d have won what Pep and Zidane won? Not sure on his judgment he thinks there’s any elite managers there. Graeme Souness certainly wouldn’t win the league as man city manager

Its harder to create, then to destroy Its like when kroos is sold by real madrid, or just leaves, real madrid will not have that player that was most important in them winning all these champions leagues all this past decade, since barcelona cycle ended in 2015. Teams are more then just managers, but its upto to managers to understand how football works in terms of humans, and create a situation where there team can compete. The next city manager winning will depend on how he sees the players he has got, and can he redo them in his image of what a team is, and whether he can keep the cycle of winning going, or will it end with who ever that is. Winning cycles have many many factors, and every new generation of humans brings a new way of looking at things, and analysing based on there world view and intelligence.

Simon needs to learn to let people finish their sentences before interrupting and cutting people off! Quite rude!

No english manager in the top half of the table? Im sorry does eddie howe not exist anymore?

Troy is so dense it’s unreal - where is Oodinay?!🤦‍♂️

Simon really hates Eddie Howe doesnt he

And that why sir Alex is the greatest of all time because he could go into any club a do it

Winning trophies vs who?

This looks like it was recorded in a dungeon. Why is everything so dark and gloomy? It looks depressing but then i listen to Deeney and realize it IS depressing.

Greame says whoever follows after Pep is guaranteed success But wrong reason It's because of money and power

Daniel Levy with Jose Mourinho or Conte too many conflicting personalitites in the same room

Pep overall spend 2.2B Klopp overall spend 2.16B I prefer not to speak.

Emery has been around a while good cup manager not so much a league manager apart from PSG Arteta is the next Pep in my opinion iniola at a bigger club could do well Xavi Alonso will come to the premier league I think and I think he would be a great fit at Man Utd in the next 18 months 2 years it all depends on how much they have to spend and the situation at the club with the likes of O’Neil Dyche good manager but not a top 4 manager also if Man City are not on -30 points at the start of next season it’s disgusting in my opinion if they get off with the FFP case again but in my opinion Arteta is the up an coming elite manager in the premier league in my opinion I think pep will leave in the next few years once KDB Walker Stones and Silva leave they are a great team but the core of it is getting on in age