An unusual source for football tittle tattle, the right honorable David Lammy MP, has disclosed that Alex Ferguson rates Mauricio Pochettino as the 'best manager in the Premier League'.
This is the kind of company Fergie keeps these days. Instead of chortling with the geezers on Soccer Saturday, he dispenses his wisdom over the sound of clinking glasses at luncheons with members of parliament.
His post-career, as we've written before, demonstrates the advantages of being a retired great in the era post-football's gentrification. Ferguson, in addition to his United directorship, jets around the planet like the head of some global corporation, giving lectures on management to CEO types at Harvard.
David Lammy is the Labour MP for Tottenham and was speaking on The Spurs Show
I'm going to let you into a secret. About six weeks ago, I sat next to Sir Alex Ferguson at a dinner in support of grassroots football abroad. He said to me, "I think you guys have got the best manager in the Premier League". Alex Ferguson said that.
Like every other buzzy manager in Europe, Pocchettino has been linked with the United. However, if today's hot and heavy rumours in all of the English papers are to be believed, Mourniho's potential move to United in the summer enjoys the status of a 'done deal'.
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