FourFourTwo's 50 Best Football Managers in the World 2015: No.3

Luis Enrique made a few pundits eat their words last season. Perhaps most of them. Just when it looked like the Barça manager’s stubbornness would be the sword upon which he fell, the Asturian revealed a hidden flexibility and ability to be reasoned with which challenged our preconceptions of him.

From the brink of the sack in January, to matching the greatest-ever season in Barcelona history by June, when backed into a corner the Blaugrana boss came out swinging – and he won.

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