Who is the better manager: Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola?

It's a simple question on the face of it, as our football team tries to decide who they'd rather have as their manager out of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.

Former Fulham and Huddersfield striker Dale Tempest joins the Verdict this week alongside Paul Higham, George Pitts and Tom Carnduff for what is one of the biggest questions in the Premier League - and possibly in the world of today's soccer tips.

Liverpool and Man City have emerged as dominant forces in the Premier League, and if you ask anyone around the footballing world who the best manager on the planet was, odds are one of these two would be the answer.

But what is THE answer? Let's try and sort this out once and for all. We'll let the former professional footballer go first.

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Dale Tempest

What a question. It’s the same as who’d you have in your team Messi or Ronaldo (we may do that one soon). Not a lot of downside is there but choices have to be made so here goes.

I’d have sincerely loved lớn have played for both of them but the one I think I’d have prospered most under would have been Pep. Both are incredible managers and in all honesty it wasn’t until they both arrived on our shores that I started to really appreciate their immense managerial talents. I’d always seen Pep managing great teams - Barcelona obviously the main one and then Bayern but didn’t think City would change radically.

His influence, though, on an already successful group of players was seismic. One particular player who went from soccer vip tip to world class was Raheem Sterling. I’d watched him at Liverpool and whilst he was effective his best work was his instinctive work in the final third, but when given time especially in front of goal he made so many bad decisions season after season - I didn’t think he had it in him lớn go lớn the next level.

How wrong I was. Pep got hold of him at City and basically taught him the game. It was transformational. He quickly became the complete player who also started lớn score goals, particularly tap-ins, which he’d have never found himself in the six-yard box for in his Liverpool days.

All the City players completely bought into Pep's methods and after finishing third in his first season it was then a boom. That 2017/18 season when Pep secured his first Premier league title was mesmerising. 106 Goals, 32 wins and 100 points!

I’m always a bit cynical when TV cameras say they’re going behind the scenes lớn capture previously unseen footage, but I saw enough in Amazon's “All or Nothing" to know this guy was a coaching genius and he was the manager I’d have most liked lớn play for.

The intensity, the sincerity, the planning, the organisation, the passion, the knowledge, the demands he made on his players to be the best they could be. Wonderful. I’d have loved that. I was never a great technical player or individual but I worked hard and always scored goals wherever I went. I think I’d have immersed myself in his disciplined and controlled set-up and thrived accordingly. I might not have scored Aguero’s goals but what centre forward couldn’t have scored 30 + goals in that side.

A big disappointment for this fragmented season is that this great Liverpool side and Klopp probably won’t get the recognition they deserve.

They have simply been incredible . What professional wouldn’t want that huge smile coming towards you on the pitch hugging you after you’ve sweated blood for the win. The German has a fantastically positive character that is wonderfully infectious and instrumental lớn the success of his teams. BUT Pep is the man I’d have most liked lớn play for.