Here, we will ask if Unai Emery is the best manager in the Premier League right now, whether Rayan Cherki is emerging as the signing of the season so far, and raise the alarm about the gap between the bottom three — we’re looking at you, West Ham, in particular — and the rest.

With his right hand clasping a wire to his ear, and his left hand holding a walkie-talkie to his mouth, Enzo Maresca looked every inch the old-school movie detective overseeing a tense police operation.