Benitez revolutionized marking with the zonal system, which is now used by almost every club in the Premiership, but he isn't in your top 10.
Which ended up costing Liverpool the title. He's a poor manager IMO. I wouldn't have him in my top 25 never mind top 10.
Real Madrid U-19s Spain U-19 League (1): 1992–93 Spain U-19 Cup (2): 1990–91, 1992–93 Extremadura Segunda División Promotion (1): 1997–98 Tenerife Segunda División (1): 2000–01 Valencia La Liga (2): 2001–02, 2003–04 UEFA Cup (1): 2003–04 Liverpool FA Cup (1): 2005–06 FA Community Shield (1): 2006 UEFA Champions League (1): 2004–05 UEFA Super Cup (1): 2005 Internazionale Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2010 FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2010 Not that bad surely?
Rafa is not a great manager but he has been successful in Europe beating the very best of Chelsea (05) and MIlan, and Barca too. SAF for all his success has never really ever beaten a great European team. Whenever he has played a vintage Barca real or juve or Milan side he has got battered
I must say I'm delighted to note that not one contributor has put forward the name of Bill Shankly - desperately over rated.
Since 1996 all managers we've had have been better To this day I can't understand why Scousers worship him more than Paisley, it beggars belief really
Shankly was nowhere near Paisley in terms of football coaching ability but he was pretty much single-handedly responsible for turning Liverpool from non-entities to an household name. He was very hard to ignore!
To be fair some of them have only been Chavski fans for a few years so are bound to be a bit bitter when things don't go their way. They'll be back to watching the rugger or racking up ASBOs soon enough depending on which type of new Chav fan they are.
Fergie's record is great and has to go down as best british manager due to the level of success. However a few question marks: - - Lucky to survive the early years at United, he'd never get that much time now. - Has historically had a lot of money to spent which people forget/ignore post City and Chelsea. United were until then always the top spenders and setting transfer records and taking other team's best players such as Keane, Ferdinand, Rooney, Cantona etc - Had loads of great kids come through together in the mid 90's which formed the basis of the next 10 years of dominance - Relatively poor European record. 2 champions league wins (of which 1999 was very lucky and the other a win on pens) in over 20 years is not great given the resources and stability at United - the supposed biggest team in the world. - Done well at Aberdeen but basically his record is limited to one club. For me, Jose winning the C.L with Porto and then Inter (post selling their best player and massively unfancied) are much bigger achievements than Fergie has ever achieved.
More fans Drogs. You could have a crowd of 10 and 5 get arrested or a crowd of 100 and 10 get arrested.
Yours were about 3x more than ours though, your attendance isn't. Also, I'd bet most of the stats are from away games.
He's easily spent that over the years at Man U and outspent everyone in the 90s to buy your way to a privileged position at the top of the table with the Sky cabal's financial backing, so pipe down. Best five English managers ever: Shankley, Paisley, Clough, Chapman, Revie. Bill Nich? I'll take that as a joke.
