Contrast between new bosses Ancelotti and Arteta could not be more pronounced

Separated by a few feet in the Goodison Park directors’ box, and several decades of experience on their managerial CVs, Carlo Ancelotti and Mikel Arteta viewed a drab and dour stalemate which offered little insight into which appointment will ultimately prove the right approach from these two slumping giants of the English game.

For Arsenal, the appointment of a new manager has taken them down the route of unproven potential, the glamour of a former player who has learned his coaching craft at the knee of Pep Guardiola, the chosen one of the global management game.