The five big beasts are gone: who will be the Premier League’s next alpha manager? | Jonathan Wilson

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This used to be a land where Jürgen Klopp made Pep Guardiola reconsider, and he changed his style and won anyway.Not any more. Next season will be the first since the inaugural Premier League in 1992 not to feature any of the five big managerial beasts – not Ferguson, not Wenger, not Mourinho, not Klopp and not Guardiola.What’s come over our great land?

The Premier League is still our home, but where have all the heroes gone? And it’ll take a while before the meeting of the two longest-servers, Mikel Arteta and Unai Emery, looks like a clash of the titans, even with the twist that Emery was Arteta’s predecessor at Arsenal.Tottenham appointed Roberto De Zerbi in March and, the promoted sides excepted, he has already been a Premier League manager longer than 11 of his rivals.

Not only do they have, in Xabi Alonso, one of Europe’s most promising young managers but he has time to impose his ideas and his side will be fresher than their opponents in almost every game this season.Emery’s domination of the Europa League has paradoxically given him a reputation of not quite being of the highest tier, but if Aston Villa can find a way of winning games beyond Morgan Rogers thrashing long-range efforts into the top corner, he has a great opportunity to impose himself. De Zerbi, who has the charisma of a leading figure, should also find himself in the Champions League qualification shake-up given Tottenham’s summer signings and their lack of European football.The big beasts may have gone but that just means the Premier League is entering a new phase.