Louis van Gaal | Manchester United manager

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MoBeats said:
Any pics of him with a mouse mat yet?
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I wouldn't be surprised if he's brought his own, some of those home made ones with a picture of his balls on it. He's probably spending the afternoon making sure all the players and staff at Carrington are given one to take home with them.
 
Dunno if this has been posted already..

From the DailyFail
The players have been training since 9.30am and will have lunch at 1pm before meeting the Dutchman who is due to oversee a second training session later in the day. It will be his only contact with the players before United fly to America on Friday because the squad have been given tomorrow off to be with their families before embarking on the three-week trip./QUOTE]
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Dr. Funkenstein said:
This a 13minute speech for a bunch of entrepreneurs, from march or april, just after Strootman got injured. It's quite interesting, because it gives a short overview of his appraoch. I could summarize it later, but it's too much work to translate it.
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The newbies have the translation - I'll ask the translators for permission to post.
 
After seeing what Van Gaal accomplished with that average Dutch side, I expect good things from Van Gaal at Old Trafford. I hope Giggs has little input and he becomes a yes-man just their to learn and keep our identity.
 
The translation of that speech to the Dutch businessmen.

With kind permission of @Begbie in the newbies.


Minute: 0 – 1.16 It begins with the question: Does Oranje have any chance?
After moments of silence: “It’s the managing of expectations. We can’t really fail because the low expactions. But the National Coach (he likes to talk about himself in third person you know) see some chances. That is because the Vision and the Structure. MINE vision and structure. And that is arrogant according to others. I don’t think I am but I have confidence in MY VISION and STRUCTURE. I believe that’s crucial for the people in the organisation so they have something to believe in. “

Minute: 1.17 – 5.06
“I also see chances because I believe in these things: Preparation, Training, Analyse and Evaluate. As my mom said preparation is half the work. Training, making players better every day. Analyse and evaluate. This I can’t do without help. That’s why I listen to specialists. (Do you also listen to your specialists? Your workers? That’s what matters he says to the attendees). Then he show the National Team staff. 37 people.”

Medical staff:
- 1 Sportsdoctor
- 1 Normal doctor / Mental coach
- 1 orthopedist
- 3 fysio’s
- 2 masseurs
- 1 Dietist
- 2 cooks

Technical staff:
- 2 Assistant coaches
- 1 GK coach
- 1 exercise coach
- 1 Performance analyst
- 1 Video analyst
- 1 movement scientist
- 1 Camera man

Scouting:
- Coach of the U21
- 2 Full Time scouts
- 4 Part Time Scouts

Management:
- 1 Team Manager
- 1 Press officer
- 1 Assistant manager
- 2 People who help players with the media
- 3 Security guys
- 2 helpers for the materials
- 1 Bus driver


“So if you look at this list you’ll find 12 people who prepare, train, analyse and evaluate. 12 people! Those I need to manage. So we analyse and evaluate daily with 12 people. That’s how important it was. That’s why I begun when I became National Team coach I chose my staff first. While the whole world thought I would begin with the players.

You need to have a good staff around you because we need to support the players in the very best way we can. But the staff who makes your product is very important (to the managers). I always let the specialists give me advice and I listen to it. 37 staff people plus 23 players is 60 people I need to manage so I have to manage a really big SMB. “


Minute: 5.07 – 829

“With the vision on the football process. And that’s not only a vision on the game but also on the human and the society we live in. On the way I speak to you and sometimes the way I pause during this speech. “

He talks about the system he began with the first game. (The 4-3-3 with a DM).

“When I met my players for the first time I did seek a common ground with them. The game is the binding factors in our life. That’s why I did let them see Barcelona games. They play with the 4-3-3 and a DM. But they miss the real striker. I rather play with a real striker than a false nine. But I know some might say: but that’s a club team not a national team and we can’t play like that in the 8 times we meet. So I let them see Spain. That’s the way we like to play albeit I of course have some comments on it. So the players knew which way van Gaal would like to play.

That’s something really important. Being clear on what you expect and being transparent about that. The first game I took a huge risk with selecting many debutants. But I had to shake up the players. Just like you (to the managers) sometimes have to do. But when we qualified against Turkey I had no debutants anymore. Which we did win of course.”


Minute: 8.30 – End

Then he looks back at the failure in 2001 when he failed to qualify and the way he selected players back then versus now.

“I was coach in 2001 when I failed. What did I do back then? I had been coach for Ajax and I selected ten players from that group. I didn’t coach them for 3 years. I’m a coach who believes in harmony and trusting the players. That went bad so I changed the selection process. In 2013 I said you have to be in form and fit. Be REALLY FIT. The criteria are now: you have to got talent, be fit and in form to get selected.

I was being ridiculed for that. Players are fit right? They play for Hamburg or in the Champions League? Well I believe if we look at Brazil and the conditions during the tournament we have to be really REALLYT FIT. The temperatures and the mainly air humidity are going to have a huge effect on the players. SO if we are sure we are REALLY REALLY FIT we have more chance to survive.

The air travels (jet lags etc) will have a huge effect. So we called in some scientists to help us with figuring out the best way to handle this. And we are going to train to Portugal because the conditions are a bit like this. But it’s not even really close. We only have one real week of preparations with the whole squad due to different ends of the competitions and such. I hear the media say: So? Van Gaal is team builder so he can do it. Well it’s only a week…!”

But I see some chances because I worked with them 1,5 years. But with who are we going to do that? Well if you looked earlier you saw two times Strootman in the line-up. He is a midfielder who brings balance to the team. He is important to our system. But he fell away and we don't have a second one. So I’m working on a other system.

Concluding: That’s why you have always have to see CHANCES! As business owner and coach of the National Team.”
 
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jojojo said:
The translation of that speech to the Dutch businessmen.

With kind permission of @Begbie in the newbies.


“When I met my players for the first time I did seek a common ground with them. The game is the binding factors in our life. That’s why I did let them see Barcelona games. They play with the 4-3-3 and a DM. But they miss the real striker. I rather play with a real striker than a false nine. But I know some might say: but that’s a club team not a national team and we can’t play like that in the 8 times we meet. So I let them see Spain. That’s the way we like to play albeit I of course have some comments on it. So the players knew which way van Gaal would like to play.
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There's a translation issue here. Just a small one but not irrelevant if one wants to project these views on the club. 'Striker' here is translation from 'spits' which literally means peak. Therefore it's about position, highest up the pitch (alone or together with two "wing peaks") not about the role in producing goals. In Ajax, the cradle of the Dutch School, every position has a number, and that's on the shirt unless a certain No 14 is playing, with 9 for the centre forward and 10 for the central midfielder. A 'real number 9' can also be a player who doesn't strike a lot, but a kind of static bridgehead on the edge of the box, whose prime task is to get the ball to an incoming midfielder who strikes, and general hold up and link up play to make a siege of the box possible. He did that at Ajax with Bergkamp as a 'false 10' with Petterson as centre forward, and with Kluivert and Litmanen as 9 and 10. Then the 9 has to play a lot with his back to goal, and will score only about 15 league goals a season. That seems not enough, but typical for the Dutch School is a lot of different frequent goalscorers, and the number 10 often the clubs topscorer, but not the league's, allthough he's in the team which scores the most goals. This is opposed to a false number 9, who plays less high up the pitch and joins the midfield.

With Van Persie qualities, the 9 will probably be more of striker than a bridgehead, but also with some back to goal tasks and laying off to the number 10 (Rooney?). But he could also play with two creative midfielders and one holding midfielder further back (midfield pointing backwards instead of pointing forward which is, in paradox, a more attacking system). With Rooney, Mata and Kagawa, that would allow him to play two of them at the same time in a position that suits them well. Van Persie at 10 with a brigdehead centre forward does not seem very likely, not because it would'nt suit Van Persie, but it takes a special kind of centre forward and they don't breed them anymore, especially for this level. They don't have to that terribly good, but they have a very precise first touch, they have to have 360 degree awareness, and they have to be comfortable with the threat of getting kicked from behind. I don't see that in Wellbeck, maybe Rooney?
 
I've got a stream of MUTV up, it's showing the City United match from 09, where Owen scored the winner.
Is there going to be a press conference today?
 
By the time he gets there everyone else would have fecked off and the caretaker locked everything up. His tour of Carrington will be standing outside under the burglar light with Woody going around the back to see if someone's left the fire exit open.
 
Plugsy said:
By the time he gets there everyone else would have fecked off and the caretaker locked everything up. His tour of Carrington will be standing outside under the burglar light with Woody going around the back to see if someone's left the fire exit open.
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We should have done that when fellaini was signed. I remember that photoshoot was done at night.
 
Ducklegs said:
That looks very much like LVG doing the welcoming, Woody looks like a tourist who has met someone famous on holiday.
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Haha, you're spot on.... His (LvG's) height also made a difference. Can't wait to see him at press conference.
 
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