Pep Guardiola to extend Man City contract for another year, until June 2026
Legendary manager to make it 10 years at City, with reports of an option for a further year
Guardiola has won 18 trophies, including six Premier League titles and a Champions League in historic Treble season, in eight years
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Amazing list at 10.53. Apart from the top 4 most were deemed to have failed and sacked! Surely a PL manager is the hardest sports role in the world.
Tristan, Gently thawing, Cotswolds
Arsene Wenger's record against Pep Guardiola:
Played 14, won three, drew three, lost eight.
Wenger, to my knowledge anyway, is the only boss to have beaten each one of Guardiola's Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City teams.
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In response to Jamie’s comments at 10.48, I believe that whilst not the greatest manager of all time, Arsene Wenger deserves a huge amount of credit for the way he transformed Arsenal from 1996 onwards. His approach to training, diet, the way Arsenal played football, and the players he brought in to the club were aspirational, and years ahead of anything that Guardiola has done. It’s sometimes surprising that people have such short memories.
Tim (Arsenal fan)
Image source, Getty ImagesTrue, true. Although £59m is still a huge amount of money.
For instance, Hansi Flick has never purchased a player for more than £50m...
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Excellent stat about Pep having only signed two players over £60m. United have signed 10 over £60m in the same period - Pogba, Antony, Maguire, Sancho, Lukaku, Hojlund, Casemiro, Fernandes, Mount and Yoro. Which proves that it's not how much you spend, but how wisely you spend it.
Dean in Dronfield
Image source, Getty ImagesThanks Jamie, glad you find today's debate interesting.
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Pep Guardiola is clearly the greatest manager in world football, ever. I can't think of any other manager who has created a style of football that forced the rest of the world to adapt to it. Sir Alex was great too which makes this debate interesting.
Jamie, York
Jack Grealish - £98m
Josko Gvardiol - £75m
Ruben Dias - £60m
Rodri - £59m
Riyad Mahrez - £57m
*Fees according to Transfermarkt
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Clough bought Trevor Francis for the then unheard of fee of £1m. The PL has changed the numbers, but great managers have always spent money, often a lot of it.
Anon
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Image source, Getty ImagesSorry, behind by six, not ahead. We're writers, not mathematicians.
Going back to the stats, it's kind of incredible that Manchester City have won 70 more league games than Manchester United in just eight years.
City could have had two seasons off, and they'd still be ahead of their rivals by six.
Good point Ali, good point.
Maybe we open our debate out to all eras, and all leagues?
I don't think it's too bold to say Pep Guardiola would, at the very least, still get into the top 10 of an all-time manager list.
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Why do you always ask greatest premier league manager, football existed before 92, Brian Clough taking Forest from division 2 to European Cup glory one of the GOAT’s, then you have Bob Paisley another GOAT who won 20 trophies in a 9 year period and they never had billions of pounds at there disposal!
Ali D, London
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Image source, Getty ImagesApology accepted.
Back to Pep Guardiola, I think it's time to get scientific with our Greatness comparisons.
Let's look at some stats.
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Sorry. I'm Simon rather than 'Anon'
Simon, not Anon
Thanks Anon.
Two things. One, remember to leave your name on your messages if you're able.
And two, is it just a straight up debate between Guardiola and Ferguson? Or does anyone think another manager is the Premier League GOAT?
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Sir Alex Ferguson remade his team multiple times and won multiple times. When Pep has been around for long enough to completely change his team and is still winning, then we can talk about 'greatest'
Anon