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- Van Gaal: I set clubs up for the future
| Posted: 30 Jul 2014 08:28 AM PDT Scott writes for The Metro about whether LvG will save Tom Cleverley’s United career. Scott writes for Bleacher Report about the highs and lows of Rio Ferdinand’s career. The Guardian reports on Rio’s claims that Rooney should be the next England captain. The Mirror looks at which players did and didn’t do well against Inter. United Rant talks about life under LvG. |
| Van Gaal already battling with the press Posted: 30 Jul 2014 05:08 AM PDT At Louis van Gaal’s press conference this week we were able to witness one of the first of what likely will be many rucks between the manager and the press. Ian Ladyman, the Liverpool supporting journalist from The Daily Mail, was goading Van Gaal about Manchester City, but the manager refused to be drawn. Q:The British footballer is characterised as a man who plays on emotion and doesn't play in the way you describe as much as the Dutch footballer does. Is that fair? LVG: That is your opinion. You say it, then you say I have to say it. Q: Is that an unfair statement? LVG: I don't know because I have to know the players first then I can judge. You can judge because you have been a journalist for many years and have seen the culture. Q: From the outside what are your views of a British player? LVG: What you have mentioned. Q: So you share a similar view? LVG: No, because I have already said the players under the direction of David Moyes are a lot of different to the players under the direction of Alex Ferguson, but also under the direction of me. But we shall have to wait and see. But from the outside it is fair to say that. But I don't want to be judging as an outsider. I want to hear that and feel that but at the moment they are doing great. Q: What do you think of the challenge of having such a big club like Manchester City in the same City, a team that has also won the title? LVG: It does not bother me. Whether they are ten metres away or 30 km away. Q: What do you think of what Manchester City have done over the last three years? LVG: It is amazing because they were not a big club and now already Champions and they have also won the Cup in the last three years. They are knocking at the door but that is good for Manchester United also because where there is competition you can be proud when you are the champion at the end and maybe we will be the champions. Q: City fans would argue that they have knocked at the door and opened it and closed it and now you have to knock at the door again and try and get back through it? LVG: If you like to say that, then you have to write it down! I feel that he [looking round the table] likes to say that. Q: But that's their view – that they are on top… LVG: I have learnt the word 'entice'. You are enticing me. I said 'provoke' but Ryan [Giggs] said it should be 'entice.' Q: United fans are excited by the way you handled some of the Holland games in the World Cup? Changes of formations, changing of keepers for shoot-out etc? LVG: It is also a little bit lucky when you do that! But of course you do those things for a good reason. Already I give this press conference with a lot of arguments [reasons] and I hope you can understand that. Q: We had a manager before who we had a lot of arguments with… LVG: I don't mean arguments, I mean the reasons why. So it's good that I explained that. I don't have arguments with you – until now…. [laughs] UNITED PRESS OFFICER: Sorry, we've got to go… LVG [getting up}: Interesting eh? Interesting. You're all coaches now… |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:51 AM PDT
“I am always a trainer who sees the individuals and what each player needs,” Van Gaal said. “Luke needs to be fit and he's not very fit and can't perform how I want. He needs to be fit and to train individually. I can't judge why. I see what I see. I have spoken with him and we have made a programme with him. He has agreed. We will have to see how long it takes. I don't know. I have heard good messages from Tony Strudwick the fitness coach.” Having just returned from the World Cup with England, it makes you wonder how Shaw, just 19-years-old, was in a position to be unfit. When you compare England’s performances with Holland’s this summer, it is clear there was a huge difference in fitness. Whilst England tended to die after an hour or so in to the game, Holland repeatedly won games in injury/extra time. Van Gaal has high standards, higher than Roy Hodgson you could presume, and Shaw is paying the price for this. After Van Gaal initially ruled Shaw out of playing in last night’s game against Inter Milan, he used him as a second half substitute. “He is working very hard and he was lucky tonight,” the manager said after the game. “Normally we would play Reece James but he was injured. So I asked Luke if he would play. He did a very hard training session this morning but he said he would play and he still did very well.” Shaw has responded well to Van Gaal’s methods though and claimed that he agrees with the feedback he’s received on his fitness. “I am fit but I am not at the high level the manager demands,” he said. “I have got to get fitter to get up and down, but it’s something I have got to work on and, in this 45 minutes, I felt really good so I am looking forward to keep progressing to be ready for the start of the season." Shaw has revealed that life at United is much harder than he expected, with the step up from Southampton and England proving to be huge. "Yeah, it was a surprise,” he said. “I didn’t come into United thinking it would be much harder. That’s something that I think I made a mistake on. I thought it was just going to be the same but it’s the biggest club in the world and there are world-class players in training. That is something that is going to push me on and it’s something I am looking forward to doing." Asked if van Gaal has been hard on him so far, Shaw said: "Yeah, but that’s something I want and I need to push on so they can do what they want but it will only help me in the long run." |
| VIDEO: United beat Inter Milan on penalties Posted: 30 Jul 2014 04:04 AM PDT Ashley Young, Javier Hernandez, Tom Cleverley, Shinji Kagawa and Darren Fletcher all converted their penalties in United’s 5-3 shootout win over Inter Milan, after the game finished 0-0. |
| Van Gaal: I set clubs up for the future Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:30 AM PDT Louis van Gaal has ticked all the right boxes in his interviews since becoming the manager of Manchester United. This week he has again shown why he is the perfect man for the job, focussing on developing players from the youth team, which follows on in the steps of Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson. “I'm not a coach who thinks short term,” said Van Gaal. “I am a coach who thinks always in the long term. The way you see Barcelona still playing with six players from my time because I gave a lot of chances to the youth players. The structure and the culture of the club is Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Valdes and Motta. I also gave him his debut and he is playing in Paris St.Germain now, not a little club. At Bayern Munich it was the same. You can see that in Muller, Alaba, Klose, that kind of player. So I am always for the long term not the short term. When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs. When you see Ajax I had the youngest team to win the Champions League with 17, 18, 19 year-old players. When you use youth players of the club they know the culture of the club and they want to defend that culture and wear that culture and transfer that culture. When you buy a player from outside you have to wait and see and not every player will fulfil your expectation. It is much more difficult, also for the player.” |
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