I preferred LVG to Jose.
There i said it.
There i said it.
Louis Van Gaal appointed Dutch manager for the third time.
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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.
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.
Those quotes are exactly why I liked him the most of all our post SAF managers: A proper old school coach with a vision and seemingly a very decent (if somewhat difficult) man. The football was shite here there's no denying that but I'm inclined to believe him when he said that the players he got were often "7th choice" on his list of wanted players.
He's a good man and I hope he does well with Holland.
He's a good man and I hope he does well with Holland.
I would love to see Holland win World cup.
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.
The biggest mistake LVG made was that he thought the players United had were good enough to play the way he wanted them to play. I do not think that he ever thought he would become the manager of Manchester United. So obviously when he was forced to have Giggs as his assistant manager. Then there was no DOF to help him with the transfers.
I agree with the OP who said that he should have been given at least one more year but even if he got the 4th spot he would have been sacked as Woodward wanted Jose to take over. He overestimated the quality needed in the PL and the task he had on his hand.
I agree with the OP who said that he should have been given at least one more year but even if he got the 4th spot he would have been sacked as Woodward wanted Jose to take over. He overestimated the quality needed in the PL and the task he had on his hand.
Likewise, while our new dutch manager is up and running
I think lots of us did.
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Football isn't netball. His formation/tactics were too static. Whatever happened to the Dutch and their total football?
And then LVG make a glorious return to OT ?
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.
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.
Fool me once - shame on you
Fool me twice - shame on me
Fool me thrice - stop fecking fooling me!
Fool me twice - shame on me
Fool me thrice - stop fecking fooling me!
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Oh no
That's awful to hear. May he becomes well.
I hope his treatment goes well and he recovers.
This is sad. Wish him speedy recovery.
that sucks, favourite manager post SAFReally hope his treatment goes well, I really like Louis.
Thought he looked like he had lost weight when I saw him on TV. Be well, Louis.
Get well.
I don’t know his specific case but prognosis is usually quite high to achieve full remission from prostate cancer. Hope he gets well soon, one of my favorite characters in football.
Good luck to him. The Louis van Gaal army is right behind him.
All our best wishes are with him and his family.
Hope he gets well asap.
Hope he gets well soon, treated terribly by the club on his exit.
Tragic
Always liked him, hope he gets well
Get well soon Louis.
Get well soon LVG.
Yep, among the many lows of what was a frankly disgraceful reign by Woodward.
Will always remember him fondly. Good luck to him.
Very sad news. Hope he can survive it.
I assume he's going to continue with the Dutch side until after the world cup?