Getting the boot is a constant worry for top flight managers - but hopefully the threat is not from their wives. And while marriages do end (just ask Alvaro Morata) it is ruthless football chairmen who are more likely to terminate a relationship. As such, managers often go from club to club and country to country while the constant in their lives remains their loved ones who are there for big derby wins and gut-wrenching last-minute defeats.
With that in mind, the Daily Star has taken a look at five of the most glamorous manager WAGs who will be supporting their husbands ahead of another rollercoaster season. It would be remiss of us not to start with Cristina Guardiola, whose husband Pep has won the Premier League with four years on the bounce. Brazilian Cristina met Pep in a shop and they dated for the next 20 years - before tying the knot in 2014 in Matadepera.
She was just 18 when she first introduced herself to the football genius, who at the time was a youngster at , while she modelled for Antonio Miro. They now have three children - daughters Maria and Valentina and a son called Marius. Cristina runs her own fashion company and she is said to share Pep’s passions for fashion, poetry and photography.
And speaking earlier this year to Men In Blazers, Pep said: “My wife is the best in the world at many things, but especially in fashion. “So she says normally to me, don’t wear this or wear that, so I follow her. I am smart enough to know that when people are much b.