Roy Keane doesn't choose Sir Alex Ferguson as the Premier League's best manager – but has questions for Gary Neville about the legendary boss

Roy Keane chose Pep Guardiola over his former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson as the best manager in the Premier League.

The legendary midfielder played low Ferguson for 12 years after signing from Nottingham Forest in 1993 and enjoying immense success.

Keane won seven Premier League titles along with four FA Cups and the Champions League during United's period of dominance.

However, he is the newly crowned manager of Manchester City, a six-time winner of the English top flight. Guardiola who occupies first place for him.

Talking about the Stay with football On the podcast, he was tasked with naming his five best Premier League managers, but it took him a while to decide.

“Firstly, I like Pep, but if I don't choose Fergie some people think it's personal,” he finally said, apparently alluding to his falling out with Ferguson before his departure from United in 2005.

“Is personal?” co-author Ian Wright asked, before Keane smiled and replied: “It's all personal, mate.”

After thinking more about it, he decided to name the Manchester City manager as number one: “I'll take Pep.

“So boss number two,” he said. Gary Nevillewho made 602 appearances as Keane's team-mate under Ferguson between 1992 and 2011.

“Why do you call him boss?” he asked, Keane referring to his friend about the title he reserves for Fergie.

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Neville couldn't help but burst into laughter and say: “You've asked me this about 400 times in the last 12 months.”

Keane then pointed out that Ferguson was his manager at a football club and questioned whether he called anyone else boss.

“I told you this, I still call the school teacher that they brought me (to) Mr. Wright with,” Neville explained. “You've been used to calling someone that for about 25 years.”

But Keane still didn't accept it: “I don't understand it. Not just you, everyone, the boss, the (boss), I don't understand it.”

Jamie Carragher asked if it would be strange to call him Alex or Sir Alex, but Neville ruled out both, although he admitted he would call him the latter publicly.

“For 25 years I called him boss,” he reiterated, only for Keane to come back and say, “Yeah, because he was your boss.”

“He's not your boss now, is he? He's another human being, that's all, why do you call him boss?”