Can’t buy that. For most of Fergie’s career, the CL was pretty much the same as it is now. United were in it every season. The reason he only won 2 is because it is very difficult.
Then you don’t really know the rules back then. SAF was at United for 26 years. However due to only league winners being allowed in the CL until 1996 he could qualify for the CL only in 19 seasons. Two of them (1993 and 1994) were with the foreigner rule.
So he won 2 CLs out of 17/19 which is basically 2 in 2 decades which is what most of the very best managers have apart from Ancelotti and Zidane.
The difference being that he actually won it when United had a very good team.
Pep however has had several years by now when he had a very good team cruising in their leagues since leaving Barca and has still not won it without some of the best players ever.
Unlike SAF Pep is also hailed as a tactical genius. So why is his CL record not better than it is?
United hadn’t won the CL for 18 years before SAF became United manager and hasn’t won it in the 8 years since he retired.
Barca won the CL 2 years before Pep became their manager and 3 years after he left.
Bayern won the CL 1 year before Pep became their manager and 4 years after he left.
No matter how you look at it, Pep has failed in the CL since leaving Barca especially taking into account the incredible quality of the squads he has managed since. Yes CL is difficult to win, but a so called super tactician should have won it more often.
Super tactician? Nope! Top class league manager/coach (with the best squad in the league)? Yep.