What’s the criteria? Inheriting Barcelona 2 years after they’d won a European Cup, with key players from the Spain Euro 2008 team and a Messi who was naturally destined to be the best player in the world? Or winning default titles at Bayern while neutralising them Europe? Or winning a 3 titles in his 5 years here, in each of which he had the best squad in the league?
Where’s the evidence of superiority, that can’t be accredited to circumstance?
He doesn’t have a reference point of overachievement - the true barometer of greatness for a manager - like Ferguson did with Aberdeen or Klopp had with Dortmund and Liverpool.
You'd think he personally dragged the club up from Division 2 and won us our first Premier League title the way some on here deify him.
Yep. Winning means nothing if it’s inevitable - I’d rather have done it the Leicester way; an owner who wants to invest rather than monopolise, develop our own talent and win one title and cup in 5 years if it was achieved more organically than simply buying £1b of players to neutralise the competition.
Winning 14 games in a row with no margin of error is an overachievement, especially considering that the team had to play every midweek from December till May. No manager, not even Ferguson could have achieved that. Pep has some flaws in the CL, but let's not pretend like his achievements here would have happened by default. Last year's title without a striker was another masterclass from Pep.