Premier League 2018-19: Mid-season review

Managerial changes

The baby faced assassin Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is back in Manchester!

Premier League clubs burn through managers like a hot knife through butter.

The season started off with a lot of changes at the helm for a lot of clubs. The most notable change of all was when French stalwart Arsene Wenger finally ended his 22 year reign as boss of the North London outfit. He was replaced by a Spanish tactician who had a glittering CV, Unai Emery.

Emery believes in beautiful and breathtaking football like Wenger once did, and boy has he turned the club on its head. Arsenal now play attractive football after a string of cheap and effective purchases.

Arsenal's neighbors went down to old tactics as they got rid of their Premier League winning manager Antonio Conte and brought in a tobacco chewing former banker in the shape of Maurizio Sarri from Napoli. Sarri brought along with him his famous Sarri-ball style of play that involves a lot of movement on and off the ball with focus on bringing the ball upfield whilst keeping possesion and using pre-determined passing formations.

Mark Hughes was sacked for the second time this year when Southampton brought in Ralph Hassenhuttl from RB Leipzig, while Fulham also sacked Slavisa Jokanovic to bring in Claudio Ranieri.

December broke headlines all over Europe when Jose Mourinho suffered his famous third season syndrome as he was sacked by Manchester United after he led the club to its worst ever start to a Premier League season. A 3-1 loss away to Liverpool was the final nail in the coffin for the Portuguese manager.

Club legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was ushered in as caretaker manager, much to the surprise of everyone associated with club. His term as interim boss couldn't have begun better than it did against his former side, Cardiff City. United absolutely thrashed Cardiff, scoring 5 goals for the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson's last game against West Brom.