Roberto De Zerbi (Brighton)
This selection – alphabetically first but meritocratically last – could just as easily have been Mikel Arteta, Steve Cooper, Thomas Frank or Erik ten Hag. But De Zerbi carries it, and with good reason. Ordinarily, arriving after the start of the season would be enough to rule him out of lists such as this, but strangely, in this case it fortifies his position in it. His appointment in September left him plenty of time to work, but more than that, the manner in which he has inculcated a style change in between matches, most particularly solving a goalscoring…
