Manchester City-Liverpool Preview (The Associated Press)

Whether the preferred style is brash, loud colours or the understated yet sharp, tapered style of timeless grace and movement, both Klopp and Guardiola - and by extension both teams they lead - are now the fashion forward of a Premier League whose vanguard of foreign managers are no longer content to just hoof it up the pitch to re-create the blood-and-thunder days so many on the isle wistfully recall. Klopp leads his Liverpool side into a mouth-watering clash against Guardiola's Manchester City on Saturday to ring out 2016 with the prize of second place as Chelsea's closest pursuers. The two managers are no strangers to each other, having squared off eight times in the German Bundesliga in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons as Klopp managed upstart Borussia Dortmund and Guardiola directed leviathan Bayern Munich.