For the first time in a long time, two teams are causing a sensation in European football and they are neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona.
Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain seem more solid than ever.
Nobody plays like Guardiola's or Emery's teams, and with only a third of their domestic championship played, both City and PSG have practically already won the Premier League and Ligue 1.
Beyond the eight and nine points of advantage over their pursuers (United, Monaco and Lyon), the feeling of hegemony they leave is more evident than the results.
On Sunday, City achieved the best start in Premier League history: 37 of 39 possible points (twelve wins, one draw, no losses).
The crisis of confidence that gripped them last year is history, and in their second season, Guardiola has given them the stability that they lacked before, when they alternated good games with unpredictable setbacks.
He has matured his project and now knows the peculiarities of English football, managing to make anarchic players like Sterling put their talent at the service of the team.
Pep has also successfully changed the roles of De Bruyne and Silva, bringing the Belgian closer to the start of the play, and has got Aguero and Gabriel Jesus to complement each other.
The chequebook has solved other deficiencies with the millionaire signings of Walker, Mendy and Danilo.
City are a well-oiled machine, a team more his, more recognisable.
But, unlike his iconic Barcelona, he is as capable of playing wonderful football as he is of mounting a counterattack in two passes.
The 'citizens' will champion this new way of playing.
Pep, Klopp, Conte, Mourinho and Pochettino are determined to rescue English football from their stagnating direct game.
For now, City, United, Liverpool and Tottenham lead their groups in the Champions League, and Chelsea are second, one step away from qualifying.
The new methods work.
Well, that and the 2.754 million pound television contract that's are shared by Premier League clubs.

PSG INSULT
In France, the hegemony of the almighty PSG borders on the insulting.
With 12 wins, two draws and no losses in 14 games (45 goals in favour), they're already nine points ahead of a weak Monaco that they managed to beat on Sunday.
The more than 400 million euros invested in Neymar and Mbappe is already paying dividends in terms of goals but what the sheikh craves is the Champions league, not the Pichichi.
Cavani-Neymar-Mbappe is the envy of Europe averaging 3.3 goals in France and 4.8 in the Champions League!
Emery is on a roller coaster with a devastating attack but such superiority in his league may be his biggest enemy in March in Europe.
After the debacle against Barcelona last year, PSG needs a test of maturity.
Three and a half months until the Round of 16, where City and PSG fell last year.
Both teams threaten the Spanish dominance in the tournament (Madrid and Barcelona won six of the last ten titles) with weighty arguments.
They have projects consolidated by great coaches, excellent footballers and experience.
If in March they maintain their current reliability, the competitive vigour of Madrid and the solvency of Barcelona will have found two rivals cut from the same cloth.