Why? He won the Champions League and finished a point behind us in the league with Matip, Milner, Henderson and Origi featuring prominently, plus a pair of fullbacks who cost a combined £8m.
Ten Hag massively overachieved too - was within minutes of a Champions League final with a team of kids plus Premier League rejects Blind and Tadic, who he got playing the kind of football Pep spent £600m to achieve.
Allegri shouldn’t be in there though - like Pep, he had easily the best squad in the league at Juve, that SHOULD win the league. That isn’t achievement, it’s inevitable.
Success is relative - if Rodgers finishes in the top 4 with a Leicester team consisting of academy lads/shrewdly acquired project players that he’s developing and veterans like Evans, Vardy and Schmeichel, he’ll deserve the manager of the year ahead of Pep, even if we win the league.