strange van gaal interview

[d34noj]

No doubt. LVG is already being seen as a manager 'who will need time, and will be granted it'. Moyes had no such slack cut to him. At the end of the day, perception is all. Moyes was seen as possessing too low a managerial stature. LVG is not. For the immediate (and even medium term)future, that perception over-rides reality (ie results)

This to a tee, how come he's afforded a bedding-in period plus well over 100m to spend - yet the loony dutchman states it'll take 3 years to turn it around?

Thing is, its plain as day Moyes was hung out to dry by Ferguson. He inherited the worst team to win the league I can remember, with pot luck that RVP had his only season fit and his rivals bottled it.

However... Moyes couldn't use that excuse as that team had just won the league and if he had said what was obvious to us all, he would have been going against Fergusons legacy left to him.

Player power sacked him, they didn't turn up for him and didn't want to.

 

[steken1]

No doubt. LVG is already being seen as a manager 'who will need time, and will be granted it'. Moyes had no such slack cut to him. At the end of the day, perception is all. Moyes was seen as possessing too low a managerial stature. LVG is not. For the immediate (and even medium term)future, that perception over-rides reality (ie results)

OR, the greater your achievements the more time you're afforded. Which makes perfect sense. Moyes confirmed that limitations the whole football world thought were Evertons, were actually his!

 

[SerenityNigh]

To be fair, he's got a point. Moving to a different country, with its different way of doing things, different language and so on can take a lot of energy out of you just getting used to the things that natives take for granted. That energy is energy you can't spend focusing on playing well.

I know highly paid players will have a lot of people helping them do many of those rudimentary things, but still, you can understand where he's coming from.

Why doesn't he have a driver?

Anyway, sounds to me like he's whining. Take the bad of Mourinho and the bad of Moyes and squeeze them into one body until the hair stands up. No doubt his accomplishments have been tremendous, but he's got a lot of work cut out for him to succeed at United.

 

[SerenityNigh]

No doubt. LVG is already being seen as a manager 'who will need time, and will be granted it'. Moyes had no such slack cut to him. At the end of the day, perception is all. Moyes was seen as possessing too low a managerial stature. LVG is not. For the immediate (and even medium term)future, that perception over-rides reality (ie results)

LVG has handled himself better already. The worst kind of manager is one who is not in control--Moyes was clearly not in control a year ago.

 

[deipnosophist]

LVG has handled himself better already. The worst kind of manager is one who is not in control--Moyes was clearly not in control a year ago.

Yes mate, I hear what you and Steken are saying. Suffice to say, that SAF passed a most poisoned chalice to his successor(s).

 

[SerenityNigh]

Yes mate, I hear what you and Steken are saying. Suffice to say, that SAF passed a most poisoned chalice to his successor(s).

"Mate, can you hold this for me? I'm tired of carrying it?"

 

[deipnosophist]

"Mate, can you hold this for me? I'm tired of carrying it?"

...and Atlas shrugs lol

 

[Steve_Round]

If 3-5-2 didn't work out the WC would he have used it here? No.

He had Vlaar - a commanding CB. De Vrij, Blind, Jaanmat comfortable on the ball. They know tactically their role in a 3. Jones and Smalling are proper British CBs. No tactical nous. Blackett has done well and he knows tactically his role though he is a LB by trade.

Van Gaal is overrated by the media and himself. This will be failure with the money he spent which makes more imbalance which he originally claimed was the problem. Idiot.