Fergie rubbishes Barca talk - United boss sees 'no sense' in labelling Barca the best ever

Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2011 by skysports.com

Fergie rubbishes Barca talk - United boss sees 'no sense' in labelling Barca the best ever
Ferguson: Doesn't believe Barcelona should be labelled the 'best team ever'

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Barcelona are not the greatest team of all time and does not think there is 'any sense' in trying to compare them with great teams from the past.

Barcelona beat United in the Champions League final back in May to claim their third European crown in six years.

Pep Guardiola's men have also won La Liga three years in a row and that dominance both in Europe and domestically has led to many calling them one of the greatest sides of all time.

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When quizzed on the issue Ferguson agreed that Barca were a world-class team but were only good enough to rank alongside famous sides of the past.

"It's certainly among the best sides of all time. But so was the Milan side with Franco Baresi, (Carlo) Ancelotti, (Roberto) Donadoni and the Dutch players," Ferguson told Corriere dello Sport

"There's a short memory in football. Now everyone says Barcelona is a fantastic squad, but at the time they said the same thing about Milan.

"I don't think there's any sense in asking which is the best team of all time. The important thing is to remember that a certain squad was special.

"That makes me think of the Dutch squads in the 70s, Bayern and Celtic, which beat Inter in the European Cup in 1967. That was a squad in which the players were born within a 25-kilometre radius."