11 Managers Who Raided Their Former Clubs After Taking Over Somewhere Else

Loyalty to your former club has become a thing of the past. Gone are the days where someone will stay at one club for an entire career.

This is not strictly limited to players, with many managers also changing teams more and more frequently. The problem with gaffers is that they tend to try to and take some of their former players along with them. Who said managers have to be classy?

If one of the following managers is at your favourite club, just pray he'll stay for a while or you'll see some of your more successful players go with him.

11. Mauricio Pochetinno 

The Tottenham manager is not above poaching from his former teams, as he has proved on multiple occasions. Pochettino was managing the Saints when he brought Victor Wanyama to southampton in 2013, then reunited with him at Tottenham three years later.

Toby Alderweireld was loaned to Southampton in 2014, and after proving himself in the Premier League, was taken on by Pochettino at Spurs, while Spanish keeper Pau Lopez was loaned from Pochettino's former club Espanyol to Tottenham in 2016.

10. Roberto Martinez

The manager of the Belgian national team can no longer nick players from his former clubs, but has been known to do so in the past. When Roberto Martinez moved to Wigan Athletic from Swansea , he not only took four backroom staff members with him, but also persuaded his top scorer Jason Scotland to join him.

In 2013 Martinez was sacked from Wigan despite winning the FA Cup, but he got his revenge when he signed for Everton and took Arouna Kone and James McCarthy with him to Goodison Park.

9. Antonio Conte

The former Chelsea manager utilised the knowledge he gained from the teams he coached to raid them as he progressed. In 2008, Conte was the manager of Serie B side Bari, and his efforts to strengthen the team led him to taking Emanuel Rivas from former side Arezzo.

Conte's move to Juventus didn't stop this habit, as he signed Simone Padoin and Federico Peluso from another former club - Atalanta. The Italian also took two youngsters away to the Vechia Signore, making deals with Siena's Marcel Buchel and Atalanta's Davide Cais. However both players were loaned out and never actually played for Juve.

8. Mark Hughes 

The Southampton boss has taken on many teams yet seems to have loyalty for none, taking four players from former clubs. When looking to strengthen his Manchester City side he took on his former Blackburn Rovers charge Roque Santa Cruz.

In the summer of 2012, Hughes once again set his sights on the Blackburn roster, bringing Junior Hoilett to Queens Park Rangers . He went on to continue his poaching, this time raiding Manchester City when he took Wilfried Bony to
Stoke City on loan before, this summer, bringing keeper Angus Gunn to Southampton.

7. Maurizio Sarri

Chelsea's new boss Maurizio Sarri has managed many Italian teams since he started his career on the sidelines in 1990, and has been known to poach some talents to his new squads.

After being sacked by Sorento, he began coaching at Empoli and took midfielder Cristiano Camillucci along with him. When he moved on to Napoli he nicked three of his former Empoli players - Mirko Valdifiori, Elseid Hysaj and Lorenzo Tonelli.
Sarri joined Chelsea only a few weeks ago and has already brought in a familiar face from Naples, in Jorginho.

6. Sam Allardyce

Premier League veteran and former England manager Sam Allardyce is also known as a raider of his former clubs. Big Sam worked wonders for Bolton Wanderers - but that success came at the expense of former club Blackpool, when he took goalie Steve Banks to the Trotters.

After eight years with Bolton, Allardyce started working at Newcastle United and he brought Abdoulaye Faye with him, before moving to West Ham in 2011 - where he bought Kevin Nolan from the Magpies, having promoted him to Bolton's senior side years previously.

Allardyce again took advantage of his knowledge of the Bolton team when he lured Matty Taylor to the Hammers - before his final poach, which came when he pinched Dutch international left-back Patrick van Aanholt from Sunderland for Crystal Palace.

5. David Moyes

The Scot is mostly remembered as Alex Ferguson's replacement at Manchester United, but before that David Moyes managed Everton for 11 years. This doesn't mean that he remained loyal to Everton after leaving, poaching three Toffeemen to his next clubs.

The most notable was Marouane Fellaini who went along with Moyes to Manchester United, but he also took Darron Gibson and Bryan Oviedo to Sunderland in 2016. Under Moyes, the Black Cats saw the arrival of Donald Love and Paddy McNair from United as they too were reunited with their former manager.

4. Unai Emery

Arsenal's new gaffer Unai Emery took the scenic route until reaching the upper echelons of European football, but was not above nicking his former players. After coaching at Almeria for three years he made the jump to Valencia, taking Bruno, Diego Alves and Pablo Piatti to Los Murcielagos.

At Sevilla, Emery once again set his gaze on Almeria when he purchased Aleix Vidal, also poaching Nicolas Pareja from former club Spartak Moscow and Ever Banega from Valencia. Los Rojiblancos weren't safe either upon Emery's departure to Paris Saint-Germain, as he decided to bring along Polish midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak with him.

3. Carlo Ancelotti 

As one of the most decorated managers in recent history, Carlo Ancelotti kept to tradition and raided his former teams eight times. During his eight-year spell with AC Milan he had no sentiments for former club Parma as he took three of their players - Alberto GIlardino and Daniele Bonera being the most notable.

I Rossoneri also suffered from their former manager as they lost two superstars who joined Ancelotti at Paris Saint-Germain - Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva. Brazilian defender Alex was another to reunite with his former manager in Paris after leaving Chelsea to join the star-studded squad.

Upon joining German champions Bayern Munich , Ancelotti once again rifled through his former teams and brought in Kingsley Coman from Juventus and James Rodriguez from Real Madrid .

2. Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp has had a colourful career in the Premier League, but despite being known as one of the most amicable managers he had no qualms pinching off players from former teams.

When coaching West Ham United in the 90s, he brought on Steve Jones and Scott Mean from AFC Bournemouth , raiding the Cherries yet again, while in Portsmouth as he took Richard Hughes. Redknapp was one of the most beloved managers at Pompey, but was labelled 'Judas' by supporters when he moved to south coast rivals Southampton with Nigel Quashie and Richard Fuller.

After a second campaign with Portsmouth, Redknapp got the top job at Tottenham and once again raided Pompey. Spurs welcomed Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch, Niko Kranjcar and Younes Kaboul, as well as Scott Parker from another of Redknapp's former clubs - West Ham. Tottenham were also unable to escape Redknapp's exploits as he took Sandro when he joined Queens Park Rangers, capping off the list of players burgled by the manager.

1. Jose Mourinho 

'The Special One' naturally tops off our list as the Portuguese manager earns his reputation with style, poaching 11 different players over the years from his former clubs. The first team to suffer Mourinho's departure was Uniao de Leiria, who saw two of their players following the manager to Porto.

However, Porto became the main source of players for Mourinho as over the years he has transferred five players from his former side. Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho and Christian Atsu made the move to Chelsea, Ricardo Quaresma joined Mourinho at Inter and Diogo Dalot came to Manchester United.

Mourinho continued scouting players from the Portuguese Primeira Liga as he raided former team Benfica four times - Angel Di Maria and Fabio Coentrao joined Jose's Real Madrid side, Nemanja Matic went to Chelsea and Victor Lindelof met him at Manchester United. Amazingly, Mourinho put his hand back in the cookie jar twice to re-take Carvalho to Real Madrid and Matic to United.