Mikel Arteta added a notable personal honour to a mixed March for his club when he won the Premier League\u2019s Manager of the Month award. The recognition took his career total to eight, a figure matched only by Martin O\u2019Neill and Harry Redknapp and bettered by just five managers in the competition\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
At the summit sits Sir Alex Ferguson with 27 awards, followed by Ars\u00e8ne Wenger on 15, Pep Guardiola on 12, David Moyes on 11 and J\u00fcrgen Klopp on 10. The 13-time top-flight champion amassed the largest share of Manager of the Month gongs during his two decades in the league.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola reacted to Ferguson\u2019s haul with a simple question: \u201cHow many?\u201d The Manchester City boss also acknowledged that the award \u201cbelongs\u201d to Ferguson and downplayed the prize. \u201cThis is the easiest award,\u201d he laughed. \u201cMost points you do in a month is the Manager of the Month. So it\u2019s simple.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the reason we won is not the manager. [It\u2019s] the players, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arteta\u2019s awards have been collected across nearly six years as a Premier League manager. He had not won this particular honour for more than two years and made no appearance on the list during the entire 2024\u201325 campaign. Despite leading the league for long periods of the current season, he had been overlooked until March.<\/p>\n
This season\u2019s monthly winners have included a varied roll call: Arne Slot (August), Oliver Glasner (September), Ruben Amorim (October), Enzo Maresca (November), Unai Emery (December), Michael Carrick (January), Pep Guardiola (February) and Mikel Arteta (March). Several of those short-term high points did not translate into long-term stability. Ruben Amorim, the former Manchester United boss who won in October, oversaw only three more league wins in his next 11 matches before being sacked. Enzo Maresca left Chelsea 19 days after his November award, after collecting 10 points from a possible 12 and issuing cryptic comments about his influence with the club\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot\u2019s August triumph already feels distant as he has spent recent weeks defending his position as Liverpool manager for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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