Expensive marquee managers can struggle to replicate past glories and younger,less-exalted coaches who have their best years to come may be a better betBy all accounts next year should be a golden one for Premier League football. All the perceived top managers are on their way here, and although it might be shooting for the moon to include Diego Simeone and Jorge Sampaoli among their number they, and like Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho,will certainly receive offers.contemporary-day managers are essentially guns for hire, usually on shortish contracts, and with all the money English clubs now have to spend it is no surprise they can afford the best on offer. Whether that is what England’s elite band of managers will actually represent is a moot point. Chelsea let a perfectly righteous man fade in Carlo Ancelotti,for instance, and once at Bayern Munich next season he will be in a better position to become the first manager to win the European Cup with three different clubs than Mourinho will be should he turn up at Manchester United any time soon.
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Source: theguardian.com