Why are you even pointing out "twice"? Those successes were almost a decade apart which means it were two different teams. The success of the first hould have absolutely zero influence on the assessment of the second and vice versa, from a logical point of view.
I was 8 years old in 99 so I have no idea how good or bad that team was. However, I've seen the 2008 team and I'm sorry but I don't believe many people outside Manchester rate it the same way it is rated on this board. It was great, no doubt, but I'm fairly confident that City team of the last two seasons would've wiped the floor with them and since Liverpool is on eye level with them, they are definitely better in my book. Thing is, SAF was a great manager and adapter but as a coach he wasn't a visionary and his teams were never as tactically superior as Klopp and Pep teams, although the individual quality was on par or likely even better. That's the reason why those two achieved point records SAF could only dream of. What's really especial about him is that he reinvented himself and stayed at the top for so long.
