I voted: No, but he'll leave behind a team that can win it.
But that answer has it's flaws. If the next manager after wins the league the year after he leaves do we automatically assume the team he left behind to win it actually won it? I don't know if that answer really encompasses how I feel.
The reason I don't think he/we will win the league is simply that his philosophy/style is way to rigid for the Premier League and to win the league title playing the way he wants us to play historically I don't think has been done in the Premier League era. You'd probably have to go back to Arsenal at the turn of the new millennium to get anything that even comes close to an obsessive possession based style thriving across an English league season. Even that was over a decade ago and the football landscape was an entirely different panorama back then.
There were several things I noticed during last years league season that leads me to believe that he's not going to change our style at all in sync with what excels domestically and even as early as 1/4 of the way through last season and the whole 3-5-2 fiasco showed me personally that he hadn't even thought to bridge his system and his style to create a bit more synergy with the players and the English game in general. There was the whole playing players out of position caper, taking players that have obvious strengths and weaknesses in certain areas and playing in certain ways and making them adapt to how he wants them to play instead of exploiting their gifts in ways that are outside of the box.
It wasn't until I read
@NL Max's thread regarding his tactics that it all started to finally click, I started to see things that I was looking at and saying to myself "hang on, something isn't right here.." and see that they fit with what I was seeing on the field and wondering why there were obvious (to me) elements of our game that were completely out of sync. Setting up the board to level the playing field with a possession based component is going to be effective against the top teams and for the first time in a few years I found myself saying prior to the big games "We're gonna do well, trust me.. LVG does his homework and we'll find something to exploit while being solid" which is what the system is designed to do. It is simply a different way to play than we used to under Sir Alex (and of course Moyes) and I personally am happy to see us raising the technical ability bar and having us focus on constantly playing in that style will definitely hold us in great stead for the CL and the big games this coming season (FA/CoC and League I am not as confident about). But it is against the rest of the league that this kind of chess board simply doesn't work. It was proven last season in my eyes. He simply has to adjust himself this season to allow us to break from the shackled mentality of keeping the ball and acting on rigid passing lanes and cyclical basic movements and allow some of our game as a whole to evolve against the lower teams. Simply setting up the chessboard and doing homework on them will not break them down alone. It will cause them to turtle even more and push us back into the same mould of trying to create linear chances against a stacked defensive opposition.
Without droning on about Sir Alex and their contrasting styles (as that era has had it's day, as marvellous as it was) the way Sir Alex set up board and built the foundations of what the club is based upon was rinsing the bottom 12 teams for a maximum of 72 points a season home and away and then letting the chips fall where they lay against the rest of the 6 teams. Some we won, some we didn't quite win but it was a tried and true formula that has proven by himself to work at this club. We didn't need an XI of prize fighting champions. We had a few and the rest could take a punch and would always jump in and fight for their lives when the occasion called for it.
Seeing just how far LVG was away from stretching his system to even allow SOME form of adherence to the nuances of English football really does worry me and make me negative in his and our chances to win the league. Backed up by NL's post where he pretty much confirms 'Yes LVG will not change', I think we're going to see the same lack of creativity and ability to break down the lower teams, coupled with more points dropped and more of the top teams happy to drop a couple of points which means they gain one. Having looked at the broader picture, I can't really see how this is going to win us a league title.
Stranger things have happened however, this season although in my eyes (and I've waited until this moment to reveal that I absolutely detest possession football so as to not turn you away early) is going to be another really hard slog to watch but a twisted part of me inside is looking forward to throwing off the inner pride of what I think United should be and just sitting down and watching United play out a season in the hope that at the end of it we win some silverware. I am not
expecting it, if that makes sense?