Dion Fanning
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888 appearances
15 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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OK, they did come up against each other, and Guardiola's Barcelona were better than Ferguson's Manchester United of the time.
Having said that...
I suppose if you were to measure the two against each other, was Ferguson a better manager at getting bad teams to win the Premier League?
Pep seemed to need everything to go for him.
I mean, that first season, there is a bit of revisionism over that first season that Pep was there, 2016-17, that it all went badly.
Actually, I went to quite a lot of those games, including I went to the Leicester game, the famous I don't coach tackles game.
Mm-hmm.
and the signs were there that City, at a certain point, were going to be heading in absolutely the right direction, that Guardiola was just adjusting, but it took longer than maybe he would have wanted, but actually he learned a lot during that season, and from there on, you know, he hit full throttle, and City were amazing, but they are and were granted gifts, the other...
He's had a club built in his image where other managers like Ferguson, like Bill Shankly, like Matt Busby, like Brian Clough, had to build the club themselves.
And that's the big difference, isn't it, really?
That's the difference.
And so if you are comparing those two, which, again, I find it's a fairly facile thing to do in any case, even though I've just done it, is that...
There's a big difference in the way football is structured these days, isn't there?
Maybe a lot of that is to follow on from the... People saw the success that the structure around Pep at Barcelona and decided to copy it elsewhere.
And so that's what happened at City.
That's what happened to other clubs.
And other clubs haven't been so successful with their sporting directors, particularly when they pile up six or seven of them, as they do at Chelsea.
But it's...
Listen, Pep's been a brilliant manager.
Manchester City have played some brilliant football, but it's a legacy that we wait to see how tainted or otherwise it is.
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