Roy Keane selected Pep Guardiola over his former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson as the greatest Premier League manager.
The legendary midfielder played under Ferguson for 12 years after he signed from Nottingham Forest in 1993 and enjoyed immense success.
Keane won seven Premier League titles alongside four FA Cups and the Champions League in United’s period of dominance.
However, it’s Manchester City’s newly-crowned six-time English top-flight winning manager Guardiola who takes top spot for him.
Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, he was tasked with naming his top five Premier League managers but took a while to decide.
“One, I like Pep, but then if I don’t pick Fergie some people think it’s personal,” he eventually said, seemingly alluding to his falling out with Ferguson ahead of his United exit in 2005.
“Is it personal?” asked co-pundit Ian Wright, before Keane smirked and replied: “Everything’s personal, pal.”
After more deliberation, he later decided on naming the Manchester City boss as number one: “I’ll go with Pep.
“So the boss number two,” said Gary Neville, who made 602 appearances as Keane’s teammate under Ferguson between 1992 and 2011.
“Why do you call him the boss?” he asked, Keane picking his friend up on the title he reserves for Fergie.
Neville couldn’t help but burst into laughter and say: “You’ve asked me this about 400 times in the last 12 months.”
Keane then made the point that Ferguson was his manager at a football club and questioned if he called anyone else boss.
“I told you this, I still call the school teacher that I was brought through [with] Mr Wright,” Neville explained. “You’ve been used to calling someone that for like 25 years.”
But Keane still wasn’t having it: “I don’t get it. Not just you, everyone, boss, the [gaffer], I don’t get it.”
Jamie Carragher questioned if it would feel strange to call him Alex or Sir Alex but Neville dismissed both of these, although he admitted he’d call him the latter publicly.
“For 25 years I called him boss,” he reiterated, only for Keane to come back and say: “Yeah because he was your boss.
“He’s not your boss now, is he? He’s another human being, that’s it, why are you calling him boss?”