'I played for Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola – this is my answer to who's better'

One subordinate who played nether Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola is Gerard Pique, and the ex-Barcelona and Manchester United defender discussed his experiences nether the 2 managers

Gerard Pique opened up astir the differences between Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola – but stopped abbreviated successful revealing who helium thinks was a amended manager.

The erstwhile defender enjoyed an illustrious vocation which began at Manchester United successful 2004 aft coming done Barcelona's celebrated La Masia academy.

After making 23 appearances successful 4 years astatine Old Trafford, Pique returned to the Spanish giants arsenic helium went connected to go 1 of their top defenders ever. He made 616 appearances successful each competitions and contributed to 9 La Liga titles and 3 Champions League crowns.

Pique was an integral subordinate of Guardiola's sextuple broadside successful 2009 and achieved akin occurrence connected the planetary stage, arsenic helium won the World Cup with Spain a twelvemonth aboriginal and the European Championships successful 2012.

One tin lone ideate the cognition of the beauteous crippled that tin beryllium learned playing nether 2 of the sport's champion ever with Pique incapable to prime 1 implicit the different erstwhile asked who was a amended manager.

He alternatively discussed the differences betwixt the 2 legendary figures, admitting they were successful 2 wholly antithetic stages of their respective careers erstwhile helium played for them.

"At that clip it was precise different," helium said to talkSPORT last year. "But not the style, it was much the presumption of Pep successful Barcelona and Sir Alex arsenic Manchester United. Obviously it was the past years of Sir Alex and archetypal years of Pep. Pep didn't person the powerfulness that Sir Alex had successful Manchester United. Sir Alex was much similar a manager than conscionable a coach.

"Guardiola was conscionable a manager astatine Barcelona. So Sir Alex, to springiness you an illustration maybe, immoderate grooming helium was not adjacent determination astatine the pitch, helium was much focused connected the crippled day, making the team, these benignant of things.

"Pep Guardiola, erstwhile helium arrived, helium was precise young and helium truly wanted to power everything and his relation was antithetic to Sir Alex's."

Only 18 years aged erstwhile helium made the determination to Old Trafford, Pique explained however important Ferguson was to making him consciousness astatine location aft leaving his autochthonal country.

"Alex Ferguson was a 2nd dada to me," helium antecedently told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues show. "He had that prime of truly taking attraction of the young ones that were coming through.

"At the clip they had a batch of young endowment and Cristiano Ronaldo had conscionable arrived, too. When I was successful the dressing room, I felt precise integrated and we had a precise bully team. My acquisition was incredible. I inactive person a truly large narration with immoderate of my team-mates similar Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney."

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