Top 10 coaches in soccer

Gordon Strachan

The rest

David Moyes.

I'll try to give a serious list. In no order and only counting active coaches...

Louis van Gaal
Felipe Scolari
Marcelo Bielsa
Carlo Ancellotti
Arsene Wenger
Joachim Low
Pep Guardiola
Jose Mourinho
Brendan Rogers
Jurgen Klopp

It's easier to make a list of club managers, so that's what mine is. This isn't a comprehensive list, but a few of the big names.

Pep Guardiola (Bayern Munich)
Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid)
Arsene Wenger (Arsenal)
Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid)
Manuel Pellegrini (Manchester City)
Antonio Conte (Juventus)
Jose Mourinho (Chelsea)
Marcelo Bielsa (Marseille)
Jurgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund)
Louis Van Gaal (Manchester United)

Conte was the first guy off on my list.

I'll answer this as fairly as possible. He has much less experience than the top 10 guys.

His first job was a success in everyone's eyes. His second job was not successful and lasted about 9 months. After he was fired, the guys who took up after him all did much better.

Since he is already very wealthy and doesn't need to apply for coaching jobs, he only showed interest in a handful of desirable jobs (all of which would pay quite well).

Therefore the US job was one of the only jobs he could feasibly land with his current resume, besides maybe Tottenham, since he isn't interested in 98 percent of the jobs on the market:

Even big name guys like Frank Rijkard, Cesare Prandelli, and Mancini were more flexible with their first post-firing job searches.

I think 50 is a bit steep. He probably could have gotten most Bundesliga jobs outside of Bayern Munich, Dortmund, and maybe 2-3 others.

For the US job, the only bigger name than Klinsmann I saw was Bielsa, who is arguably the most intelligent man in coaching. I don't know how good of a fit he'd be for us though. I'm bit counting Pep as a serious candidate based on a couple of non-sequiturs.

Definitely now, as Galatasaray had him as a serious candidate and that is on par with a top 3-5 German club considering their last foreign coaches were post-Barca Rijkard and Prandelli, and Thomas Tuchel accepted the initial offer last week.

I bet he could have gotten one of those jobs (Schalke, Leverkusen, Hamburg-type jobs) before then, too. But he'd have to bring in a legitimate top assistant, not Martin Vasquez.