7. WARREN JOYCE

Season Club managed GM W D L W % D % L % GS GC
2018-19 Melbourne City   28 11 7 10 39.29% 25% 35.71% 39 33

One of the least-liked coaches in the competition by the time he was quietly shown the door, the stoic-yet-smiley City gaffer had a rough ride at Melbourne City.

The Australian figurehead of a polarising and somewhat faceless organisation - which has largely underwhelmed an Australian public crying out for marquee substance - Joyce was never going to get it easy.

But the former Manchester United staffer's sideways, sideways, backwards approach and habit of kicking out the club's best players left him little move to manoeuvre.

If his testy press conferences were anything to go by, it's likely that by the end he couldn't wait to get back to rainy nights at Old Trafford.

Saving Joyce from a tougher ranking were City's moments of tactical astuteness to rival any club in the league. But they were such an unpredictable club under the Englishman's two-year reign that they could be smashing Perth Glory one moment and losing to the Mariners the next.

Ultimately however, not even unpredictability could make Joyce's side fun to watch.