Pep Guardiola will overtake rival Jose Mourinho as the fastest manager to reach Premier League wins if he leads Man City to victory at Wolves tonight … but who else is in the top 14?
- Pep Guardiola can set a record for managerial Premier League wins tonight
- The Man City boss takes his side to Wolves on (wins from) top-flight games
- Guardiola has nine games to beat Jose Mourinho’s record as the quickest to
Kevin Keegan is set to drop out of the top on a list that includes Jurgen Klopp
By
Ben Miller For Mailonline
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Pep Guardiola can join an illustrious list of Premier League greats and usurp
by guiding reigning championsEven if City are denied for a third time in four Premier League visits to Wolves, their masterful manager will have another eight matches in which to breakTottenhamtactician Mourinho’s remarkable record of (wins from 162 matches.***********************
Pep Guardiola seems certain to become the fastest manager to earn Premier League wins***********************Guardiola’s first Premier League win was in charge of City against Sunderland in August
************************************ Rival Jurgen Klopp collected his th win when Liverpool thumped Everton earlier this month ************ City are at home to Sheffield United and Everton between now and New Year’s Day, meaning only an unlikely barren run will prevent the former Barcelona boss from achieving the feat within the next six days.A win at the first time of asking would make Guardiola a centurion after just matches – 27 games quicker than his nearest managerial rival at the top of the table.
Jurgen Klopp’s**************************************************************** th win in charge of Liverpool arrived in emphatic style with a5-2 mauling of Everton in the Merseyside derby on December 4, making the German the current second-quickest in history to reach the total.
Klopp’s pace of victories is impressive given the period of transition he oversaw after being appointed in 2015, although the name behind him on the list was known for knocking Liverpool off ‘their perch’, as he put it.****************
Sir Alex Ferguson (left, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) took ten years to reach Man United wins************************* Sir Alex Ferguson was three years f rom having his royal title affixed to his name when he racked up the landmark total thanks to a Roy Keane goal that decided a game against Leeds at Old Trafford in (*************
United won the Premier League that season but would be displaced by Arsenal in 1998 under Arsene Wenger’s transformative leadership, three years before the Frenchman picked up his th win with a victory at Derby.
The list of ten managers to have reached wins most quickly is replete with rivalries. Claudio Ranieri made the milestone with a win for Leicester in (during what would be his final season at the club, and three coaches took 197 games to reach the total.
Most of Kenny Dalglish’s touchline career took place between 1998 and (************************************************************, but he hit a ton of wins in the modern top flight in his second spell with Liverpool, when they beat Newcastle, with whom of his victories came, in
SERIAL WINNERS: THE TEN MANAGERS WITH THE QUICKEST CENTURY OF WINS ****************************** (DATE) ******************************** () ******************************** (MANAGER)
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