Louis Van Gaal a good manager or not

[Nicky91]

what do you think of Louis Van Gaal?


he was good at Barcelona, Ajax and the Netherlands national team :)

[alex_front2]

His methods/ so called philosophy *used* to work at AZ Kamaar, AJAX, Holland, Barcelona (initially), Bayern (initially) but in this new era they just don't work.

He has poor man management skills, lack of passion (he sits impassively writing into his note pad whilst the likes of Klopp scream and jump up and down with so-called pasion), lack of a plan B, and seems stunned when the likes of MK Dons, Leicester, Midjytlland have the sheer audacity to try to win. And do so.

He's also has the wrong persona. Youth players like Rashford, Borthwick Jackson, Lingard probably fear him , but the senior ones will just down tools.

[Mystic Mock]

I'm feeling mixed on him as Man U manager.

I feel that he should be trying to keep a stable starting 11 each week instead of constantly swapping it around all of the time.

But I also feel that bar De Gea and Smalling the other players just aren't good enough at this point, however Memphis, Martial, and Rashford are ones to watch out for in the future, if not at Man Utd then at somewhere else.

[alex_front2]

I'm feeling mixed on him as Man U manager.

I feel that he should be trying to keep a stable starting 11 each week instead of constantly swapping it around all of the time.

But I also feel that bar De Gea and Smalling the other players just aren't good enough at this point, however Memphis, Martial, and Rashford are ones to watch out for in the future, if not at Man Utd then at somewhere else.
He has to use differing starting 11 due to high injuries and a lack of depth in squad. However, the youth are decent, this is a bit like Man u of 1992 where Fergie could drop a legend like Paul Parker for talented kid Gary Neville.

[Mystic Mock]

He has to use differing starting 11 due to high injuries and a lack of depth in squad. However, the youth are decent, this is a bit like Man u of 1992 where Fergie could drop a legend like Paul Parker for talented kid Gary Neville.

It's not a bad comparison actually with Gary Neville and Paul Parker as Man U was going through a transformation stage at that point weren't they? I'm asking because I wasn't even born at the time.

And I get what you're saying about injuries and lack of depth, but would his team be more resilient and get more depth if he played the same 14/15 players instead of about 23/24 players this season?

It's honestly no coincidence that Leicester, Tottenham, and Arsenal are the top three in the table and that's because barring any injuries, they play the same team every week instead of rotating nearly the entire squad.