How is it a negative? LVG was willing give youth a chance. It was up to them to take it. Your entire argument rests on a claim LVG 'overlooked elite talent' at youth level.
When the fact is he gave EVERYONE a chance.
And them being not good enough long term isnt the point. The vast majority of them never let the club down when he handed them a chance.
Some One failong to see how anyone can believe this Gomes, Chang generation would not have been regular games times under some like him. Who was already building hid attack around teenagers Martial and Rashford when he got soaked
Fosu Mensah? Are you pretending LVG is not the one who promoted him when we had an injury crisis? Pereira fell foul of LVGs strict team ethic rules just like Januzaj. Besides, we never had an injury crisis in midfield . We did in defense
That is why youth players all got chances. As I told you Tuanzebe made his bench for EPL games. He also was never a fan of playing first teamers out of position. He prefered to pick an available youth team player in their most natural position.
This argument always amazes me. If Rashford was strictly picked due to an injury crisis. He'd never have kept him on the team. Rashford was 17-18 playing academy football.
For people to siddenly pretend that level was enough for a first team manager to over look a fit Powell and Keane to go for him. Is as dumb as saying JM right now should pick Greenwood over Lukaku, Rashford, Alexis and Martial as a cf due to his academy and UEFA youth champions league exploits
No that is one dumb argument. LVG chose youth players whenever they did one of 3 things a) there was an injury crisis in the first team b) if the were natural and superior to his first team options in the role and c) if they took their chance with both hands. That is how McNair, Borthwick- Jackson, Fosu-Mensah and Rashford kept their places.
Furthermore, The notion that 'it wasnt planned' to play youth to have a thin squad is one of the most idiotic myths that lives on in this forum about LVG. Same as the idea that players as good as Gomes and Chong would NEVER have got a chance under him. Yet this is guy who could happily pick a Young over a Di Maria, a teenaged Martial over a Delay because the worse in one case and kid another week put performing the super stars.
I simply quote LVG himself:
"Asked if the flurry of young players could galvanise United's support Van Gaal replied: "I shall never use for myself, only for the team to improve the team. I have a philosophy, for example, that I don't want a great or wide squads, because then you cannot give youngsters a chance and now you see a lot of youngsters who can show their quality and you can also win, but it's a big risk."
That is for the next poster who wants to lie to us having a thing squad was not planned by LVG and he was just 'force' to play youth.
You can knock LVG on everything else. Never his policy and planning for youth players.