Me too. I think the people within the club like and respect Van Gaal, namely Woodward. I find it hard to believe that we're stringing him along like a fool, with him completely unaware of our supposed negotiations with Mourinho.
Don't think fans should be focusing their energy to find faults in everything. As stated before, he will be gone for reasons well discussed multiple times. I just find it tedious to keep on finding little things to moan about, sometimes forcibly where there is none which makes it hilarious most of the times. It's not as if people are going to be executed if LVG does something right for a change.
Yeah of course you can. It doesn't really have to be one or the other either though. I'd love us to win the FA Cup, but I'm also slightly worried it'll save his job and it'll be another season of struggling for fourth place.
All true, but after today's performance its awful to think of bringing Maureen in. He will dismantle all the good.
Or, you could say that he will turn Rashers, Big Timmy, Tony M and Lingard into world beaters
Um, to say he 'discovered' those players is giving him a bit too much credit don't you think?
Please do explain to us what this "good" you speak off is.
He laughed when he said that thoughOn matchwinner Anthony Martial
"He could have scored in the first half when he was in the same situation, so I told him at half-time to shoot low into the corner – and he did that!"
Another one of those "the player scored or did this and that because of my advice" post match comments
So if you watch it, he's maybe being tongue in cheekTrue, but difficult to imagine that given his record.
Don't forget dithering Dave's charity shield win!
Any player aged under 22 in our first 11.
It's not so much that it's just that after every victory the van Gaal apologists usually come out with his "see, he ain't too bad" rhetoric and try to justify his overall bad performance. This guy is so slippery it's untrue.
Nope, the majority of them were already at the club and had to be used because of his poor squad management during last summer.
Rashford and Timothy Fosu-Mensah would not have got near the first team if LVG had not sold so many players. I aint a fan of LVG, however he does deserve a lot of credit for some things he has done.
If someone is good enough, you can't ignore them.
Oh god yeah. As with the other players he claims he "discovered". He deserves a bit of credit for it but that's it.
Yeah that or people and players will (still) complain about playing in rigid formations and tactics.
Martial or Rooney. Have to give LVG credit, he has done good work in promoting young players.
Rooney was injured first, Will Keane got injured. Wilson was on loan, the shuffle for Martial to move up front was hindered by a thigh injury. At the final hour cometh, Rashford.
The developing and what not are always done by players themselves and youth coaches mainly. Mangers at senior level can only prepare them mentally mostly.
I don't think it is a bad thing? Because he intended to give Keane who is our youth a chance. It is that Rashford's luck that he was there when he was needed. LVG would have been doing what he was doing regardless like giving youth a chance? It is exactly what he said he would do way before that happened.
Oh, yes I was just describing the move blow by blow.
For me, giving them their debut is the easy thing. Keeping them level headed and getting consistency is another. Our bench today was telling, big money buys like Mata and Depay there, while Rashford and Fosu-Mensah started.
In fairness, everything in sport and life is about luck.
Well exactly. LVG is a bit of insane sometimes though which is a trait that most good mangers have.
What's that got to do with Jose?
Well, there is a skill set to spot and judge youth players and there is having none of it (almost at all) even to start with.
You honestly think that Mourinho wouldn't have been able to spot and judge a young Giggs or Rooney or Ronaldo or whomever else?
If he would, he hasn't showed too much yet considering how many places he has been to and stuff he has been winning. Who are his wonderkids that he brought into his sides and go on to become a very good player? Unless there is no more Giggs, or Rooney or Ronaldo type of talents don't happen since he started managing football.
One thing I'll say is, whatever about anything else and whatever you may think of him, Mourinho does not lack balls
Well, in this case, I think he does. Nothing else can explain it. Which is odd to me.
