I dont like Whiskey-Nose one bit, but credit where its due, he is the most dominant manager in the Premier League era. Its naive to compare Emery or Benitez to him, however biased your opinions are. His teams were relentless and they challenged for every single trophy year in year out for over 2 decades. It'll take decades for another to match his consistency and achievements. Rafa has/had the attributes, but he's never quite had the backing to do it, and until he does, it's bollocks to say he is better than Fergie.
1. Winning PL does not show a manager's or a team's superior quality to other good teams in Europe. Winning CL is the true reflection of a teams quality and is there for more valuable in my opinion. Prime Exmaple: Sir Alex/Wenger.
That's just utter tripe. The PL reflects the overall quality of your squad much better than the UCL.
2. Sir Alex was tactically naive compared to other greats in the game - Paisley, Ancelotti, Sacchi, Del Bosque, Mourinho. This is reflected in his poor European record.
He's got 2 Champions League medal - same as Sacchi, Del Bosque and Mourinho. Also lost a couple more finals to Pep's Barcelona. Had 4 more SF eliminations. His record in europe is decent. He was never the best in Europe, but he's still a great on that stage, however much it hurts me to say it.
3. Managers like Benitez and Emery have shown more tactical nous and intelligence than Sir Alex in their relatively short careers in Europe than Sir Alex managed in his 20 odd years.
Neither has achieved anything close to him. Benitez atleast has got consistency in Europe at the highest level to show for, but Emery doesn't yet exist on the same plane.
Now, since none of this matters to the topic at hand, lets go back to talking about the title, because FFS, we are in the mix for it at the fag end of the season after 5 years, and thats actually worth talking about.
Now I need to go take a shower after having to defend that scum.