Manchester United icon Sir Alex Ferguson has praised the running of Bayern Munich.

Ferguson was back in the dugout for Sunday's 5-0 win over Bayern in a reunion match for the 1999 treble.

United are undergoing a transformation in how they operate, and Ferguson has pointed to Bayern as an example of how it should be done.

"They're a great club," Ferguson told MUTV about Bayern. "It's a club run in the proper foundation of it. Former players who run it really, Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinze Rumenigge, they run the club in the right way and they are always winning the league in Germany.

"They're a great club."