‘Get some water for Rio’ – Ferdinand clashes with Owen Hargreaves in Liverpool-Chelsea debate

Rio Ferdinand and Owen Hargreaves have been locked in a row over who is the best manager in the Premier League this season so far.

Arne Slott took over from Jurgen Klopp in the summer and has been taking to Anfield like a duck to water, with… Liverpool Top of the English Premier League and Champions League table and in the UEFA Cup semi-finals.

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Meanwhile, Mariska also joined Chelsea In the summer after leading Leicester City to the championship title. The Italian has so far led the Blues to third place in the Premier League table (at the time of writing) and top of the UEFA Conference League with a perfect record.

Rio Ferdinand and Owen Hargreaves face off

Hargreaves is a firm believer that Slott is the manager of the season so far.

“He did an unbelievable job,” he said of Maresca on Ferdinand’s YouTube channel. talkSPORT), then added: “But I say if you are top of the league, and the best team in the Champions League, it is Arne.”

Ferdinand, Hargreaves’ former Manchester United and England team-mate, replied: “No, no, no, I think it’s great. But I’d say the level of change within clubs is completely different. (Maresca) has closed that margin even more.

He continued: “(Sloat) had a wonderfully stable ship. Ownership in Chelsea is so fragmented, it’s in the newspapers every day.

“(Slot) had a new sporting director but it’s not unstable. It’s still a stable environment. There’s no noise. When Klopp was there, there was no noise.

“I’m fighting cornerback Maresca. He had more fires to put out than maybe half the league. And he fired them.”

“It’s my show, my opinions,” Ferdinand joked.

“Bring some water to Rio,” Hargreaves added.