The reason why nobody has really been able to emulate Guardiola is because what he does isn't simple. He makes changes but they aren't conventional changes like just switching formations or playing somebody surprising "up top". He comes up with genuinely new ideas and fosters an adaptable philosophy of playing in both individuals and the collective. He's like an autocratic organizer while Klopp is an all-guns-blazing fascist. Both rely on a cult of personality, to a large extent.
Guardiola always realized that you basically need a new team after a certain point in time, and Man City keep him around by giving him just that. If we want to be that way, we're going to have to move through players and stop fantasizing about a squad of academy kids that play together for 10 years with unlimited hunger and drive. Klopp has a history of running his teams into the ground, so this was always to be expected. I'd be surprised if he managed to pull them out of the current slump to challenge again without a massive overhaul, but he hasn't really been putting the pieces in place to do that (though I'd say that's on his TD, they should have seen this coming).
