Delusional or hate post? He is the best in the context of how dominant his teams play and how many trophies he has amassed in the last 20 years.
The financial endowment you speak of, us united have no right to speak about this as we spent as much on player recruitment and close in wages* with nothing but a top 4 yoyo club.
Ancellotti also managed the best teams in their leagues or Europe, Mourinho is the famous cheque book manager and Fergie had a financial advantage over the rest of the league until Mourinho and Abrahimovic came along.
3 of the greatest football players ever? Two of those players were not regulars in the first team when he came and Xavi was contemplating leaving Barcelona because of the hard time he was having.
He literally made that team.
Had a defence of Puyol and Pique(united reject)
Gave debuts to Busquets and Pedro, faced out Ronaldinho, Deco and Etoo, their three best players are the time he arrived.
Selective memory from you mate
I am just tired of the cnut and I wish he leaves but even when he does we are not placed to benefit from it
The only decent job he has ever done has been at Barcelona where I will admit that he built that team in his own image and he was well on his way to being the greatest ever. But then he ran at the first sign of adversity (Losing the title to Real Madrid) and Enrique who came after him won a treble of his own with the same core.
Nothing he has done at Bayern or City has been remotely impressive. So i'm not even going to get into it.
You mentioning Ancelotti and Jose only serves to prove my point. If you give a legendary manager resources (ANY of the 20 greatest ever) they will dominate and win several titles. Ancelotti has titles in each of the big 5 leagues and has 4 CLs too. Why isn't he mentioned as the GOAT? Jose has titles in Spain, Portugal, England, Italy plus a treble and 2 CLs so he should be the greatest no? Why mention chequebook management for Jose but not for Pep who has been by far the biggest beneficiary of the chequebook in history?
What separates the best of the best from the rest is their ability to build, tear down and rebuild while facing adversity and limitations. Pep has never had to deal with limitations at any club he has ever been at and he is yet to demonstrate that he can build a legendary team with limited resources. Fergie built 3 of them across two decades with two teams who won 3 straight titles ten years apart.
Fergie having a financial advantage is laughable. The only truly big money names I can think of from Fergie's great teams are Rio, Rooney and Andy Cole. The rest were either bought for cut ir resonable prices or were academy prospects. If you want a better example of a team winning a title on artificially created financial advantage then look to Jack Walker and Blackburn and Roman's Chelsea.
In the 90s, the Serie A and La Liga were the top 2 leagues in Europe and they attracted the top talent. Fergie couldn't get any globally renowned name to join United for that reason and it hurt us in Europe till the late 90s. If there was any financial advantage, that advantage was created from the prize money United got from winning titles at the start of the PL era (on the strength of Fergie's greatness). Nothing else.
