Felippe Gatto, Liverpool
Rising star manager, only lvl 6 but achieved good performance in just 6 seasons he has been managing. Was managing small teams until he got appointed to manage Liverpool and has been pivotal in their progress. Promises great future to Liverpool fans.
Paul Skelton, Middlesbrough
Legendary manager, has won many titles, only one missing is the CL trophy and Paul is aware of that. Nr 1 manager managing the nr 1 club in England.
Berhan Karagoez, Leeds
Good places recently, won FA-cup and one league title with Leeds, building for the future, he has CL gold dreams again.
Glen Durrant, Man. United
Avid darts player, has won one FA-Cup with United, top team and a top manager, constant threat to any silverware chasing teams.
Jermaine O'Farrell, England's big star
Has scored 51 goals for his country in 51 matches.
At Leeds he has not as impressive scoring ratio but there he has more of a support role and has been a very important key player for them this season.
Young Tommy Grant at age 22 already a goalstar, has had a spectacular development in the national team scoring 20 goals in 16 games.
Liverpool's own product has been attracting interest of the top clubs and the question is how long will Liverpool be able to keep him.
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Middlesbrough won another league title last season, making it their 7th league title, losing to Barnsley in the FA-cup semi-finals, where Barnsley actually won the trophy.
Liverpool had 2012/2013 finished in 3rd place, manager Kjettil Helland moved to Milan where was fired after a month. New Liverpool manager Felippe Gatto joined and finished 5th. A year later, Liverpool was a different animal, unstoppable, scoring goals from every angle. Felippe's boys had matured and were now one of the best teams in England.
Winning the league in 2012/2013, Leeds had lost the FA-cup final to silver medallist Middlesbrough. 2013/2014 saw Middlesbrough as undisputed and unbeaten champion, winning the Premier league with 0 losses, 2 draws.
Premier League is one of the most competitive leagues in the game, and even if the teams don't have the economy, fan base and talent as the Spanish, German and Italian leagues, the competition is very tough and challenging.
In 2012/2013, Middlesbrough has been closes to reach a final in CL when they were eliminated by the winner Lazio in the semi-finals, and last season Boro were eliminated on away goals by Barcelona who lost the final to Real Madrid.
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2014/2015 will be an affair between Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester United and the rest of the league has a notch or two up to be able to measure themselves against those four big teams.
Newcastle got a new manager in Roeland vd Ham, which is surely a great lift for the club to better achievements in the near future.
Roeland is seasoned and experienced manager who thinks a Euro cup spot is not an impossible task to achieve in his first season as Newcastle boss.