Can't say I agree with that at all. You put all this effort into talking about the greatness of winning the champions league... then name Benitez and Emery as superior to Ferguson on the basis of that... a man that won it more times than the two of them put together
LOL - Ferguson has to be the most overrated manager in the CL
Fergie -
20 years - (United PL winning squads)
Only
2 CL (two last minute goals after tactically outplayed for a good 80 mins and one Penalty shootout win)
2 Final appearence (in all European Competition, thrashed in both)
Group Stage or R16 exit to poorer teams - 6 times
In my opinion Sir Alex was tactically THE MOST OVERRATED manager who got regularly found out in Europe can never be considered a European great no matter how many times he won the PL title beating bang average team. Wenger was very similar to Ferguson, only with lesser money so lesser PL titles (regularly made top 4 to be crushed by equal teams in CL). Both champions of crushing small teams bang average managers in Europe.
Putting in context
Benitez - 7 years, 1CL, 1 Final, only 1 R16 exit to a poorer team, Won 2 EL titles
Emery - 3 years in 3EL Titles beating better teams and 2 year in CL with PSG (Barca, Madrid R16) lost to better teams