Mikel Arteta on if Pep Guardiola is the best premier league manager ever: Mikel Arteta told Sky Sports that Pep Guardiola is one of the three greatest managers to have ever graced the Premier League. "I have to go to three. I think Sir Alex [Ferguson], obviously Arsene [Wenger] for what he did for this league and then I have to go for Pep [Guardiola].”