Liverpool’s Klopp and Arsenal’s Arteta show there are different ways to ‘get’ your club

Sometimes, it feels like every modern football trend was heavily influenced by Pep Guardiola’s period at Barcelona.

From pressing to possession, from entrusting academy products to playing with a false nine — Guardiola didn’t invent any of these concepts, but he certainly helped to repopularise them.

But the most obvious trend has been where clubs try to find their version of Guardiola — the cultured ex-player who understands the club’s traditions from his days as a member of the team.

There have always been former players who returned to manage one of their old clubs, of course, but it was notable that immediately after Guardiola won the European Cup in his first season as Barcelona coach, Juventus appointed Ciro Ferrara and AC Milan hired Leonardo, neither of whom had managed before — and neither of whom has had much of a managerial career since.

Since then, we’ve had Zinedine Zidane and Santi Solari at Real Madrid, Antonio Conte and Andrea Pirlo at Juventus, Diego Simeone at Atletico Madrid, Roberto Di Matteo and Frank Lampard at Chelsea, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United, Tim Sherwood at