Warnock names three managers better than Man Utd legend Sir Alex Ferguson with Arsene Wenger on top
Sir Alex Ferguson is not the Premier League’s greatest manager, according to Neil Warnock, who believes there are three better than the Manchester United legend.
After 75 games in charge, the former Sheffield United and QPR manager left Middlesbrough last week.
He was asked to name his top five Premier League managers in an interview with talkSPORT (as reported by the Daily Star).
Ferguson is widely regarded as the best manager in the league, but Warnock ranks him fourth on his list.
This is despite the Scotsman winning 13 Premier League titles as well as the Champions League on two occasions.
The 72-year-old began his explanation by claiming that Wenger “changed the entire outlook on modern footballers”:
“Since the Premier League started if I was picking my top five managers… I would pick Arsene Wenger as the number one,” Warnock said.
“Only because he changed the whole outlook on modern footballers. He brought so many things in that had never been thought of.
“The nutritionist, the fitness guys, video, technology. He changed the whole course of it when he came into the Premier League.”
Warnock went on to name Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, as his second-best, citing his “influence on the parks and the lower down leagues.”
“I would put Klopp third because I think he’s just beginning and he will get even better.
“But his outlook and everything he has done at the club and the future with the kids – I think he has got another 10 years coming forward.
“So I think he’s third at the minute, but could easily be number one in a couple of years.
“Fourth, I would probably go with Sir Alex [Ferguson] just in front of Jose Mourinho because he has done it for longer.
“I just think he was in an era where it was all about man-management, it wasn’t down to all the backroom staff, and Sir Alex was probably the best at that.”
On Jose Mourinho, Warnock added: “[He] deals with the media at the most difficult times, but I would still put him number five.”
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Warnock names three managers better than Man Utd legend Sir Alex Ferguson with Arsene Wenger on top
