All posts tagged "Louis van Gaal"

  • The Ryan Giggs Referendum

    Louis van Gaal has officially been sacked as the manager of Manchester United and rumor has it that Jose Mourinho is waiting in the wings to become the new main man in the Old Trafford hot seat....

    • Posted May 24, 2016
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  • Van Gaal looks to shape summer spending around United’s youth

    Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has said he will shape his summer spending with the club’s first-team breakthroughs in mind, with the goal of protecting the club’s next homegrown generation. With breakout forward Marcus Rashford on...

    • Posted March 4, 2016
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  • Van Gaal’s Manchester United going nowhere fast

    Sir Alex Ferguson did not keep Manchester United at the top of English football for some twenty-five years solely because of tactical innovations.  His longevity, a massive achievement in itself, was due in part to an aptitude...

    • Posted February 19, 2016
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  • Is the end of Van Gaal’s reign at Manchester United imminent?

    Louis van Gaal has a very particular, Dutch sense of humor, combative and ever so slightly churlish to fit with his large, brazen personality. Back in the good ole days of his Manchester United tenure, say, last...

    • Posted December 27, 2015
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  • Van Gaal delivers the right message at the wrong time

    Louis Van Gaal is famously outspoken and gregarious at his press conferences. Jonathan Wilson once coined that he is adamant about many things, most of all that he is right; however, as United’s poor run of form...

    • Posted December 11, 2015
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  • Rooney struggles to find home in Van Gaal’s system at Manchester United

    There was once a boy; a sixteen-year-old boy from Everton described as “the best young player has seen in the past 30 years” by a man quite adept at finding just those sort of players. This...

    • Posted November 14, 2015
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  • Can Lingard be Manchester United’s next homegrown success?

    In an increasingly monetized world of modern football, where transfer fees seemingly only go up and up, homegrown talent can be a very cost effective way of developing footballers. It’s an ethos that Manchester United take pride...

    • Posted November 7, 2015
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  • With all eyes on Holland, the Blind family look to make their mark

    When Daley Blind takes the pitch for the Netherlands in their must-win Euro 2016 meeting with the Czech Republic tomorrow, he might just be able to save his father’s job with a win. Blind, a centerback known...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • Manchester United’s “Little Old Man” Martial calms panic

    Nobody would have blamed Anthony Martial if he hadn’t scored in his first three games in the red of Manchester United. Not the teenager with less than two years of professional football at Monaco under his belt;...

    • Posted September 20, 2015
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  • A week to judge Brendan Rodgers and Louis van Gaal

    Louis van Gaal told the media to judge him after three months; three months into his tenure at Manchester United and his side drew West Bromwich Albion 2-2. At Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers asked for three years. Three...

    • Posted September 9, 2015
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