Louis van Gaal | Manchester United manager

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He also admitted the decision to join United was "not an instant yes".
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That's exactly what I want to hear. None of this 'I'm so happy to be here', generic rubbish. I love this man.
 
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Nice interview there. They were talking about the loss of experience and how he'll approach managing a young side so I got interested and decided to find out Man Utds average age since so many old players left (don't know where else to put this). Worked out that it's 24.1 which is pretty damn young!

Used these players:

Amos: 24
Johnstone: 21
Lindegaard: 30
De Gea: 23

Evans: 26
Jones: 22
M Keane: 21
Rafael: 24
Shaw: 19
Smalling: 24
Varela: 21
Vermijl: 22

Anderson: 26
Carrick: 33
Cleverley: 24
Fellaini: 26
Fletcher: 30
Herrera: 24
Januzaj: 19
Kagawa: 25
Lingard: 21
Mata: 26
Nani: 27
Powell: 20
Valencia: 28
Young: 29
Zaha: 21

Henriquez: 20
Hernandez: 26
W Keane: 21
Lawrence: 20
Rooney: 28
Welbeck: 23
Wilson: 18
Van Persie: 30
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Forgot Blackett.
 
LVG bringing in drinks and bibs after practice. Gotta love it.
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.Rossi said:
The 442 with fast wingers?

Yeah, I get that. I understand that completely....But you've seen the Giggsy documentary yes?

Giggs, P Nev, Scholes, Butt, all in a room discussing tactics....Clueless!!
"I like Valenica's pace"

And these were/are expected to carry on the "United way".....It makes me wonder what went on half the time
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This. Everyone that thinks that Giggs should take over the reins in 3 years has absolutely no clue.

Giggsy was a great player, but he's got to earn his badges elsewhere
 
KeninDC said:
LVG bringing in drinks and bibs after practice. Gotta love it.
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Brilliant. Notice anything particular at training, say, were they split into groups, maybe hints on who could be starting the game?
 
SolidShite said:
Yep but you can vet your arse they will beat it out of him if they have to. If he thought he could come to the prem and simply continue as Bessie mates with all the managers he's in for a shock and I'm sure he'll find his feet on the merry go round. He'll definitely be at other managers throats by the time he's heard someone slagging his team off for the 5th week in a row.

He'll get a rises out of the kind of managers who jobs will be on the line. Koemann is a disaster waiting to happen. They already reportedly don't like each other and all it would take is a snide comment from him.

Of course history shows that you'd have to be insane to take LVG on with words. It will be interesting to know what he says about another Howard Webb bottle job or a Martin Atkinson mystery penalty.
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Dude, LVG has never started shit with anyone, ever. He is not a douche. He is only interested in building teams from the ground and discovering new gems.
 
Suedesi said:
Dude, LVG has never started shit with anyone, ever. He is not a douche. He is only interested in building teams from the ground and discovering new gems.
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He kinda did with van Persie tbh. From what I've heard, Robin did nothing to warrant van Gaal's initial feud with him.
 
he's fab, seems very relaxed and straight talking in interviews, not at all like Moyes was

really excited about this season so much!
 
Glad to hear Van Gaal's putting Shaw on an individual training programme. If he has, he's clearly been underperforming in training aswell as on the pitch. Shaw will be fine, but it's better that Van Gaal lets him know immediately that he can't rest on his laurels and expect to make the first XI. This will help his development imo.
 
It's rather refreshing that he just calls it as he sees it. Doesn't get defensive because this is a new big money signing and doesn't give a shit about reputation or players being moody about it.
 
Damien said:
Brilliant. Notice anything particular at training, say, were they split into groups, maybe hints on who could be starting the game?
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Team was split into two units. As best I could tell, Mata, Rooney, Herrera, Jones and Evans were with the first unit. Kagawa, Nani and Young with the second unit.

Most noticeable was the time spent on one-touch drills. A lot of pass and move at pace.

LVG was very vocal throughout. Rooney looked very fast-was very impressive.
 
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This. Everyone that thinks that Giggs should take over the reins in 3 years has absolutely no clue.

Giggsy was a great player, but he's got to earn his badges elsewhere
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Scholes said Valencia's place, he played at right back that game.

And he can earn his badges here, that's not a problem. But after that I agree, there is no chance Giggs should be given the job with such little experience in which the signs weren't that encouraging.
 
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Team was split into two units. As best I could tell, Mata, Rooney, Herrera, Jones and Evans were with the first unit. Kagawa, Nani and Young with the second unit.

Most noticeable was the time spent on one-touch drills. A lot of pass and move at pace.

LVG was very vocal throughout. Rooney looked very fast-was very impressive.
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:drool: Hopefully, we can see more intricate passing against Inter.
 
I think 3-4-1-2 is here to stay as long as we have Rooney, Mata, Welbeck and Van Persie around. Its not a bad thing either, when both strikers perform well and a #10 is of the quality of Mata, its a very sound system. The wing backs need to be at their best though, that's the most demanding position to last an entire season in that formation.
 
I'm not too big a fan of the rumoured in and outs for the most part. With that said, I'm delighted with what he seems to be doing from a coaching perspective. We'll play with an identity for the first time in a long time, that's for sure.
 
FromTheBench said:
So Van Gaal mentioned Young as possibly playing Wing back too. While he mentioned Rooney, Welbeck, van Persie, Keane, Zaha, Hernandez as possible strikers in this. No mention of Nani.
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Don't think he knows where to play Nani. He wouldn't do very well in a wing back role which is probably why Van Gaal tried him in a CF type position.
 
Brightonian said:
I just had so much fun imagining Van Gaal chasing Anderson around a running track shouting 'fatty boom boom!' over and over at the top of his voice and cackling wildly.

Don't tell me you can't imagine it!
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Didn't reply to this in the Twitter thread as I didn't want to be thread banned.
 
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