I think the latter is better for the team personally but at anyr ate if it is Van Gaal I imagine we will at least be in for an entertaining season.
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I think the latter is better for the team personally but at anyr ate if it is Van Gaal I imagine we will at least be in for an entertaining season.
I don't think Van Gaal will make any effort to fit players in just because they have profile. He's Louis Van Gaal. He's more than used to upsetting 'stars'. He has a pretty set way he likes to play and he'll pick the XI he feels is best suited to that, be it his favoured 4-3-3 or the 4-2-3-1 he has adopted in later years. Van Persie will be safest in the new set up because he knows him and has made him Holland captain. Everyone else will be fair game.
Your opinion loses most of its value when you're in favour of keeping a guy who led us to 7th in the table across 35 games of football.
I doubt that. Klinsmann's inventions were to put Buddha statues onto the roof and to let the red cupboards paint grey...
Delighted. Rooney lolz.
In any order: Klopp and Simeone would be my first choices. I'd love for us to try something with Pochettino but that's a non-runner as we cannot afford another experiment.
van Gaal is in prime position as he ticks a lot of 'Glazernomic' boxes: no compensation required, experienced, mentally tough enough to take on the mantle of a huge club and a big enough name to instill that bit of fear into the opposition again. It's just a pity he wasn't a free agent NOW and was maybe five or six years younger.
Can you see RvP as our next captain now, or will van Gaal go with the more easy choice in Rooney?
Certainly looks like it, he has an outstanding record in fairness. Should end talk of RvP fecking off somewhere in the summer I hope, Im pretty happy with Van Gaal although a bit apprehensive over the fact that he is apparently a nutjob. Though I could well end up loving him for that very fact.
I'd love it if he came. Just to see him giving Rooney a right kick in his arse rather than climbing into it
He's a stunning mix between Iain Dowie and Steve Bruce, with just a hint of Donald Trump.
It will be very different under him, that's for sure. The press conferences will be more fun too.
It will be fantastic to have a manager in charge who has actually won things. I am still staggered we gave the job to Moyes in the first place.
Oh, no! A football supporter wanting our club's manager to do well, especially as I was objective enough to consider the difficulties Moyes was working under and admiring the man for giving it his all. Excuse me for having some sort of compassion, especially in a game so emotional as football.
I have no qualms about admitting that when I sung "We'll stand by David Moyes" on the Stretford End with 20,000 others, I genuinely meant it. Others may not have but I certainly did. And that wasn't anything to do with Ferguson as I've been on record here regarding my attitude towards him. I wanted Moyes to succeed (desperately, even) and I make no apologies for it. I still believe he'll make a top manager elsewhere and unfortunately for him, maybe the job was just that bit too big. No shame in that. The only embarrassing thing now is the mockery of so-called United fans and the celebratory nature of their actions yesterday and today. That leaves a bad taste in the mouth, but hey, who cares, eh? 'Gollum' is gone!
Also, your opinion, I'm sure, doesn't hold any water here at all.
He's known to give arrogant press conferences and get angry from stupid questions, and has a proven track record in Europe. He could well get us that coveted CL trophy.
Its Van Gaal, so whoever has the largest balls.
What good is it what the manager has won elsewhere? What matters is what he may win whilst he's Manchester United manager, whomever gets the role.
Villas-Boas won all around him in Portugal but came to England and (somewhat) disappointed. Employing managers based on what they've won in previous times isn't a guaranteed recipe for future success.
He'll make himself captain, so...
He's known to give arrogant press conferences and get angry from stupid questions, and has a proven track record in Europe. He could well get us that coveted CL trophy.
It's just a pity that he won't get to have a go at winning it in his first season. I still can't believe that we won't be playing CL football next season.
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1...-gaal-potential-david-moyes-successor?cc=5739
Seems to be moving ahead then. Miguel Delaney is pretty reliable and seems to have sources at the club.
I would only like van gaal if he brings long frank de boer long with him, as some rumors has suggested. De boer could do the transfer dealings on his behalf while he's involved in the World Cup. We really need to strengthen this summer.
I'm just laughing at Spurs 
I'm just laughing at Spurs
Levy will be fuming. However much he likes to pretend that Spurs are a big club, they are just small-fry compared to a behemoth like United.
Because it proves they have the ability to be successful. A proven track record. I would have thought that was obvious.
He will do wonders for some of the youngsters if he does come. He loves moulding players and the likes of Jones, Janujaz, Rafael and Welbeck would improve massively under his coaching, I understand peoples skeptism but if we want someone to stay a few years and put a modern philosophy in place then there are few better. The hands off approach of our owners will suit him too.
Something tells me we're going to be going after dutch players this window!
Spot on.
That ones up for debate. Bayern were not happy with their style of play under him, which went a long way towards explaining his dismissal there.
Looking back on his reign now when comparing it to the richly aesthetic football Bayern have played in the interim makes it look even worse, if truth be told.
Who do you want to replace Moyes? Sure winning trophies at other clubs doesn't guarantee anything but surely you can admit that a man with a good CV is more likely to be successful than a man who won nothing or very little?
Something tells me we're going to be going after dutch players this window!
we laugh now, but if he brought Strootman with him I don't think anyone would be complaining.Something tells me we're going to be going after dutch players this window!
Does that really excite you though? I mean the only dutch players I'd get giddy about signing are Strootman and Robben - one's injured and the other has no reason to leave his club for ours. We already have their best player whereas the remainder of their national squad is the most underwhelming group of dutch players I've seen for a long time.
Yes, but as I countenanced afterward, it's not a guarantee of success.
If van Gaal gets the gig here, I couldn't give two fúcks what he achieved back in the '90s or thereafter, what'll matter to me is how successful he makes us.
We should offer him Moyes
Spuds fans are bricking it right now at the thought.
They weren't happy because they were too focused on slow possesion based build up, he wasn't playing negative football, never ever has.
Nothing is a guarantee of success. But surely hiring someone with a strong CV improves your odds a bit.
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