According to Freddie Dukes, it’s time for Louis Van Gaals’ reign of terror to come to an end.
It’s time for the Manchester United fans cries to be heard.
It’s no secret that Louis Van Gaal is no fan favourite at the legendary Manchester club. His boring style of play has been constantly criticised for being, “afraid” to attack. It’s surely time the board realised that Louis Van Gaal’s Manchester United career needs to come to an unfashionable end.
Van Gaal’s style of football completely focuses on possession over attack. They don’t go out to play the entertaining game that football should be played by such a successful football club. Football is a spectator sport. The Manchester United fans pay well earned money to go watch their favourite team pass a ball without the urge or temptation to score. This is not the game that the previous, successful Manchester United played. This isn’t the game that the champions of England played.
In addition to this, another huge issue with the managerial skills of Louis van Gaal is positioning of his players. He has so many fantastic players at his disposal but hen plays these players out of position, lowering the confidence of such great footballers by picking players to play out of position instead of the original player himself. The result of this is the players feel the manger is filling a gap in the squad – the gap being them. For example Van Gaal spent a big amount of money on a winger such as Memphis Depay. Then puts the in form Depay on the bench and plays a player such as Juan Mata, a centre attacking midfielder, on the wing.
Not to mention the £60million signing of Di Maria. The Argentinian international turned out to be a huge flop under the Dutch man, playing in centre attacking midfield in comparison to his usual wing position, leaving no option but to be sold a year later to PSG, where he plays on the wing and returning into the original Di Maria that everyone remembers.
However it’s also said the Dutch man has already proved himself as the manager of Holland. But club football is a whole new world compared to managing a national team. Furthermore, the ex Holland manager has been unfulfilling as a club manager. Nonetheless, the positives cannot be ignored. Manchester United were impressive in their recent 3-0 victory over Stoke; they showed a slightly new side to their game where they finally weren’t afraid to attack. However we’ve seen it before this season where a finally impressive attacking game was played against Newcastle, only to be let down by the defence. This was thought to be a u turn in the Red Devils’ season, before a few games later returning to the poor results such as consecutively loses to the Stoke City, Norwich City ad Bournemouth.
It’s surely obvious to the Manchester United board that the fans aren’t happy with their club’s performances. From fans booing their club off the pitch to an online campaign against Van Gaal, you can’t blame the fans for their outrage either when stats show only 31 goals scored, 6 goals and 5 points behind 4th placed Arsenal and only a point separating 5th placed Manchester United from 6th placed West Ham and still have scored 7 less goals than them.
With all this in front of the Manchester United board, it’s surely time to say the final good byes to a very unimpressive Louis van Gaal.
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