UEFA gives out a Men's Coach of the Year award. It literally goes to the Champions League winner every season -- even in 2021, when Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel won it despite having been fired by another team (PSG) midway through the season. That's super boring. Who really coached better in a given season: The guy who led a team with a kajillion-Euro payroll through a few Champions League knockout rounds, or the guy who took a team with the lowest payroll in a given league to a mid-table finish?
Even if "a good manager makes a team 10% better, and a bad manager makes it 30% worse," let's take a moment to celebrate the guys who coached their butts off this season, be it for good teams that turned great, relegation-threatened teams that survived, clubs that saw unforeseen promotions or, yes, teams that might be about to win the Champions League.