{"id":23471,"date":"2024-03-23T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-paul-merson-ignores-guardiola-names-top-three-premier-league-managers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:02:48","slug":"epl-paul-merson-ignores-guardiola-names-top-three-premier-league-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-paul-merson-ignores-guardiola-names-top-three-premier-league-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Paul Merson ignores Guardiola, names top three Premier League managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal star, Paul Merson has listed his top three managers in Premier League history in a recent Q&amp;A session with fans on X and has failed to include Man City boss Pep Guardiola on his list.<\/p>\n<p>Merson named \u2018Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, and Arsene Wenger\u2019 as his top three, citing their impressive records in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson, who managed Manchester United for 27 years, won an astonishing 13 Premier League titles along with numerous other trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho, known for his defensive style of play, led Chelsea to one of the best-ever defensive seasons in the league in 2004-05, conceding only 15 goals on their way to the title.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger, who managed Arsenal for 22 seasons, won three Premier League titles and secured a remarkable 1.95 points per game in 1234 games at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Guardiola\u2019s success at Manchester City, he did not make Merson\u2019s list while the likes of Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti were also snubbed.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Paul Merson ignores Guardiola, names top three Premier League managers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal star, Paul Merson has listed his top three managers in Premier League history in a recent Q&amp;A session&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1992,15,6912,1692,160],"tags":[156,1994,1145,2308,180,2325,1694,201],"class_list":["post-23471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-guardiola","category-news","category-paul-merson","category-premier-league","category-sport","tag-epl","tag-guardiola","tag-league","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-premier","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}