Liverpool legend Didi Hamann believes you 'cannot compare' Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, and says the job the Reds boss has done at Anfield is greater than his counterpart.
The two managers have created an intense rivalry over the years which has intensified while in charge of two of the greatest Premier League teams. On Sunday, they couldn't be separated with a 2-2 draw at the Etihad.
The title race is expected to once again go right to the wire with just one point between the two teams in the table. Similar occurred previously in the 2018/19 season as City pipped Liverpool to the title on the final day of the campaign.
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But Hamann, who made over 280 appearances for Liverpool, believes Guardiola has always managed the 'best teams', while Klopp has achieved things those before him failed to do on half the budget compared to his rival.
“If you look at what Carlo Ancelotti has done over the last 20 years with the clubs he won the Champions League with, Mourinho won it with Inter Milan and before that with Porto,” Hamann told talkSPORT [via Empire Of The Kop ].
“Pep won it with Barcelona, but in Munich he took over a Champions League winning side and was there for three years and didn’t get to the final, he got knocked out of the semis three times – and two or three years after he left they won it again!
“My point is that he hasn’t done anything somebody else before him hasn’t done already. If you look at Klopp, he took Borussia Dortmund to a Champions League final and the Bundesliga title – which hasn’t been done since.
“And obviously he won the league for the first time in 30 years for Liverpool – he really galvanised that football club. I just don’t think you can compare them. I think what Klopp has done at Liverpool rates far higher than what Guardiola has done at City.
“Everybody is going on about Guardiola that he’s the Godfather of managers, but if you actually look at his record over the last three years – yes he’s done great with City to get 100 points in a season, but Klopp didn’t spend half the money, he’s probably spent a quarter of the money and they have been running them close with 98 or 99 points, and this season it’s the same thing.
“So I don’t understand how people can say ‘what Guardiola has done for football’. Yes, they might play a different brand, but then again, if he hadn’t had Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Lionel Messi in his Barcelona team, he probably couldn’t have played that way.
“He has always managed the best teams and for the clubs he’s managed, and the teams he’s had and the money he’s spent over the years, I think it’s not enough.”
