{"id":681434,"date":"2026-05-19T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681434\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:36:13","slug":"pep-guardiola-manchester-city-boss-the-sir-alex-ferguson-of-his-generation-says-wayne-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681434\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: Manchester City boss the Sir Alex Ferguson of his generation says Wayne Rooney."},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> manager Pep Guardiola is the Sir Alex Ferguson of his generation, says former England captain Wayne Rooney.<\/p>\n

Guardiola is expected to leave Manchester City<\/a> at the end of the season after 10 years in charge.<\/p>\n

On the BBC’s Wayne Rooney Show<\/a>, the former Manchester United<\/a> forward drew comparisons to his former boss at Old Trafford, for whom he played between 2004 and 2013.<\/p>\n

“I have seen a lot of comparisons to Alex Ferguson,” Rooney said. “I can say Ferguson is the greatest of all time but Pep, in his generation, is certainly the best by a long way.” <\/p>\n

Guardiola has won 17 major trophies – and 20 in all – including six Premier League titles, the Champions League, three FA Cups and five EFL Cups during his 10 years at City.<\/p>\n

Ferguson holds the record for the most Premier League titles by some distance, with 13.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been looking at people saying how loyal he’s [Guardiola] been for 10 years, which is incredible. But Alex Ferguson has done 26 years,” Rooney added.<\/p>\n

“When you actually think of that amount of time, 26 years at one football club, it’s absolutely astonishing.”<\/p>\n

Rooney spoke about how difficult it is for a manager as long-serving as Ferguson – who led United from November 1986 to May 2013 – “to maintain hunger and mentality for the game”.<\/p>\n

“When Sir Alex took over United, it was a completely different situation,” Rooney said. <\/p>\n

“He almost had to build the club up from the ground to get them to become a successful force in English football again – whereas I think Pep didn’t necessarily have to do that.<\/p>\n

“But what he has done in terms of complete and utter dominance… it’s nothing to sniff at.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is the Sir Alex Ferguson of his generation, says former England captain Wayne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-681434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}