CallyRed
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I preferred LVG to Jose.
There i said it.
There i said it.
Yeah I don’t dispute he was over the hill by the time he got to us.Wasn't Di Maria his 1st choice? Or schweinsteiger? Or Depay? Or even Rojo? Didn't Kroos said LVG canceled his transfer? Yeah we failed with getting Ramos, Muller (two non-sellable players) and Neymar, but this doesn't excuse that he wouldnt see that Rooney was a championship player. And do we honestly believe that LVG and neymar would get along?
He is/was a good manager. But he lost the league to Leicester, while we were first in November, was outclassed by Klopp in Europa League (who was just few months in his job), and he couldn't finish top 4.
Different times managing in the 90s and now. Different to manage the national team and club football too. At United, he didn't exactly have a good team. And the players who were the most disappointing were guys like Di Maria, while the "average" or "young" players (and Young) were the ones who played better under him. I think he struggled to man manage high reputation players in today's world and that's why he couldn't bring the most out of them, so had to go with worse players which means his tactics had a ceiling.No tweet from his best comment where he said it was completely unprecedented for the NT manager to talk so much to his players, after having scheduled 7 player conversations on one day, and 6 on the next.
This is just nonsense, he's worked with far better players at Ajax, Barca and Holland than he had at United.
Did we even have one player that would get into the Ajax 95 side?
He failed, because he kept some shite, signed shite and the academy was shite. He needed structure at the club like he has had for most of coaching career. Even then, I'm doubtful he would've been able to compete with Pep or Klopp, but I don't think he'd have struggled for top 4 the way he did.
I would love to see Holland win World cup.van Gaal lifting the world cup in qatar would be beautiful.
LVG said he tried Di Maria in all front 3 in his system and it didn't work out. sometimes a player just doesn't fit the system. Di Maria is a big name player there is no question about it, but it didn't work.Yeah I don’t dispute he was over the hill by the time he got to us.
Di Maria was a great signing without hindsight to be fair, if he had managed to settle into the country, he would of been a great player. I just don’t think there is any way that old Schweinsteiger and hot head Rojo were his number one targets. Sure he obviously agreed to them in the end but I choose to believe Van Gaal that Utd couldn’t get the targets he wanted.
No doubt some of the signings were his such as Depay and Blind but they were hardly huge money transfers and have gone on to be good players. I would of loved to off seen him given a few more big money signings like Ole got, think his time with us would have been totally different.
For sheer entertainment I'd agree.....I preferred LVG to Jose.
There i said it.
Likewise, while our new dutch manager is up and runningI would love to see Holland win World cup.
I think lots of us did.I preferred LVG to Jose.
There i said it.
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And then LVG make a glorious return to OT ?I would love to see Holland win World cup.
We dont have the players to play that style of football. We got two good central defenders (de Ligt, de Vrij) and one world class (Virgil). We have one world class midfielder (Frenkie de Jong) and a good one who went to the wrong club (Wijnaldum). We got a good striker but who also needs freedom and basically does what he wants (Memphis). That is not the right material to dominate opponents and play creative football.Football isn't netball. His formation/tactics were too static. Whatever happened to the Dutch and their total football?
Van Dijk is unprofessional. I totally agree it is the coach decides the tactic, not the players. There must be a good reason why LVG setup the team this way with the players he has on hand.Tweet
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Ah man, I hope he’s ok. Love van Gaal, he’s brilliant.Tweet
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Thought he looked like he had lost weight when I saw him on TV. Be well, Louis.Tweet
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Yep, among the many lows of what was a frankly disgraceful reign by Woodward.Hope he gets well soon, treated terribly by the club on his exit.