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Two legends of football, Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola, excelled at the rebuild in entirely different styles and yet the outcomes are voices enough.

Rebuilding of Manchester United

After the departure of the manager Ron Atkinson in 1986, the Manchester United club commanded by Ferguson transformed into a dynastical club with an indestructible chute line of young talents such as Scholes, Beckham, Giggs and leaders like Roy Keane and Bryan Robson. Through a strategic replacement of the squad at a given time, Ferguson ensured long term supremacy as well as a lot of titles during the early years of the Premier League.

Rebuilding of Manchester City

The experience of Pep Guardiola at Manchester City was based on an alternative blueprint, which was supported by financing and the highest possible infrastructure. He already has a team full of established stars in Fernandinho, David Silva, Sergio Agüero, and Vincent Kompany and has already elevated them through scope of play and tactical acumen to make City a juggernaut practically overnight.

Both the clubs at present

At present, both clubs are at decisive moments. With Ruben Amorim, United is trying to do something more structuralist like a rebuild, without the high end of the dressing room like they had with Ferguson. Rather, he will have to inculcate new standards and culture into an almost completely different squad dynamic. Meanwhile, City is concerned with how to be sustainable after Guardiola. Their policy, fronted by Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, is the need to build institutional stability, without a meltdown such as the one suffered by United following Ferguson.

Is this the ‘it’ season?

Gary Neville summarizes the issue very well “I think you are not going to get that four or five years as a manager any more. You must succeed in the process,” which is a contemporary expectation of having everything instant, even when under reconstruction. In essence, the schemes of Ferguson and Guardiola remain influential matters as to how each club is devising its reemergence. In their case, perhaps noble cultural rebirth or clever development of what was already there before, their history is a reminder of a powerful statement, greatness in the art of the rebuild comes with a sense of vision, leadership and faith.

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