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This is the most important part. Look at DiMaria, arguably one of the best players in the world. Absolute shit for Utd. I mean you have a guy that's in the top 5 players in the world during his last season at Madrid and he's trash.
I love how the Prem breaks reputations.
Louis Van Gaal in his own words:
Louis Van Gaal in his own words:
Peak man United
Take a look at @Beijingcasuals's Tweet:
Take a look at @Beijingcasuals's Tweet:
15 year old girls are more usually the baby sitter, not the baby sat.
Why LVG turned us down but MP was only too happy to take the job tells you all you need to know.
LVG would have never had the nous to identify the players that needed to go and the players that were potentially mouldable to the style and make them perform decently.
Then buy a couple of players with the money raised from those sales to supplement.
I truly believe that if the Guardiola's VG's and Mourinho's of football want a challenge then take a team that hasn't got unlimited funds and the £ to pay vey high wages, a club like Us, Everton, Spam or even Newcastle and win CL's and Titles.
Felix Magarth ( the same man who couldn't do it at Fulham) won 2 titles at Bayern ( did the double) & 3 cups.
Jupp Henkeyes won a CL, title and 2 cups with Bayern. He also won a CL at Real Madrid but not much elsewhere.
LVG would have never had the nous to identify the players that needed to go and the players that were potentially mouldable to the style and make them perform decently.
Then buy a couple of players with the money raised from those sales to supplement.
I truly believe that if the Guardiola's VG's and Mourinho's of football want a challenge then take a team that hasn't got unlimited funds and the £ to pay vey high wages, a club like Us, Everton, Spam or even Newcastle and win CL's and Titles.
Felix Magarth ( the same man who couldn't do it at Fulham) won 2 titles at Bayern ( did the double) & 3 cups.
Jupp Henkeyes won a CL, title and 2 cups with Bayern. He also won a CL at Real Madrid but not much elsewhere.
Been said before, but...I love how the Prem breaks reputations.
Louis Van Gaal in his own words:
Been saying this for a while, unless city give Guardiola £500 million he will have to deal with a relatively normal squad in comparison to Barca and Bayern Munich. This is the first time we really get to see what he is made of in his career because he won't have by a 100 miles the best squad in the division.
Klopp was supposed to be Jesus, Van Gaal was better than sliced bread. Pochettino could make mugs out of all of them.
We really dodged the proverbial bullet when LVG signed for United.
They can give them 600 mil to spend unless those players want to play together then they will fail!
Romero, Weir, Love, Pereira, Herrera, Keane, Depay on the bench yesterday. They have injuries and a few more right now than the average PL team, but jesus f-ing christ that bench after spending that money!!!!
Woolwich (H), Man City (A), Everton (H), Tottenham (A), West Ham (A), Leicester (H) are their big games remaining - wouldn't mind them taking a few points off a few of them. Woolwich next for them is massive. They lose that, they are arguably done for when it comes to the top four. So hopefully they play out of their skin.
Watching MOTD2 after missing the second half. WTF were Leicester doing. Hopefully this will destroy their confidence and they'll slip up a few times.
Woolwich aren't a good team, we'll annihilate them at the Lane.
Woolwich aren't a good team, we'll annihilate them at the Lane.
Paul Parker proves again that he's the best pundit out there.
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
Paul Parker believes Tim Sherwood rather than Jose Mourinho would be the ideal man to replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager.
Van Gaal's position as United manager has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with widespread reports in the national press claiming Mourinho is set to land a three-year deal to replace the Dutchman at a salary of £15m-a-year.
Last Saturday's 2-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Sunderland left United six points behind Manchester City in the fourth and final Champions League spot with 12 matches of the season remaining.
But Parker, who played for United between 1991 and 1996, is not convinced Mourinho has the right experience to help the team out of their current plight.
The former England defender believes ex-Aston Villa and Tottenham manager Sherwood is the man to provide United with the perfect short-term fix if they decide to part ways with Van Gaal before the end of the season.
"United went from bad to worse this weekend. They certainly don't look like a team about to surge back into form and make a run into the top four of the Premier League. But bringing in Jose Mourinho? That is absolutely not the answer," he told Eurosport.
"So to suggest that he could walk into a crisis situation at United and turn it around is absurd. That's something he's never done in his career, and this really wouldn't be the time to start. He's lost a huge amount of respect in the game, and I suspect the players at United hate the idea of him taking over.
"Frankly, given how unhappy the players are right now, they'd be better off bringing in Tim Sherwood between now and the end of the season: someone to soft soap the players, give them a bit of a cuddle, get them feeling good about themselves once again.
"Sadly, as we've seen with Tim, those sorts of managers don't work long term. And United need to start thinking about the long term as soon as possible, because if not they face the ultimate danger: turning into the new Liverpool."
He added: "None of the other available big name managers currently out of work would fit the bill either. You could give someone like Fabio Capello a call, but he'd have all the same problems that Van Gaal has faced. He's too old school, he doesn't understand the modern game and how players need to be handled today.
"There are plenty of guys out there who do - Diego Simeone, say, or Mauricio Pochettino - but none of them are going to leave at this stage of the season. There is just nobody out there who could come in, lift the dressing room, and then go on to build a brighter future for United."
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
Paul Parker believes Tim Sherwood rather than Jose Mourinho would be the ideal man to replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager.
Van Gaal's position as United manager has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with widespread reports in the national press claiming Mourinho is set to land a three-year deal to replace the Dutchman at a salary of £15m-a-year.
Last Saturday's 2-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Sunderland left United six points behind Manchester City in the fourth and final Champions League spot with 12 matches of the season remaining.
But Parker, who played for United between 1991 and 1996, is not convinced Mourinho has the right experience to help the team out of their current plight.
The former England defender believes ex-Aston Villa and Tottenham manager Sherwood is the man to provide United with the perfect short-term fix if they decide to part ways with Van Gaal before the end of the season.
"United went from bad to worse this weekend. They certainly don't look like a team about to surge back into form and make a run into the top four of the Premier League. But bringing in Jose Mourinho? That is absolutely not the answer," he told Eurosport.
"So to suggest that he could walk into a crisis situation at United and turn it around is absurd. That's something he's never done in his career, and this really wouldn't be the time to start. He's lost a huge amount of respect in the game, and I suspect the players at United hate the idea of him taking over.
"Frankly, given how unhappy the players are right now, they'd be better off bringing in Tim Sherwood between now and the end of the season: someone to soft soap the players, give them a bit of a cuddle, get them feeling good about themselves once again.
"Sadly, as we've seen with Tim, those sorts of managers don't work long term. And United need to start thinking about the long term as soon as possible, because if not they face the ultimate danger: turning into the new Liverpool."
He added: "None of the other available big name managers currently out of work would fit the bill either. You could give someone like Fabio Capello a call, but he'd have all the same problems that Van Gaal has faced. He's too old school, he doesn't understand the modern game and how players need to be handled today.
"There are plenty of guys out there who do - Diego Simeone, say, or Mauricio Pochettino - but none of them are going to leave at this stage of the season. There is just nobody out there who could come in, lift the dressing room, and then go on to build a brighter future for United."
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
Parker must be taking the piss.
That or he's insane
That or he's insane
He's insane. Read some of his other columns.
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Paul Parker proves again that he's the best pundit out there.
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
Paul Parker believes Tim Sherwood rather than Jose Mourinho would be the ideal man to replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager.
Van Gaal's position as United manager has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with widespread reports in the national press claiming Mourinho is set to land a three-year deal to replace the Dutchman at a salary of £15m-a-year.
Last Saturday's 2-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Sunderland left United six points behind Manchester City in the fourth and final Champions League spot with 12 matches of the season remaining.
But Parker, who played for United between 1991 and 1996, is not convinced Mourinho has the right experience to help the team out of their current plight.
The former England defender believes ex-Aston Villa and Tottenham manager Sherwood is the man to provide United with the perfect short-term fix if they decide to part ways with Van Gaal before the end of the season.
"United went from bad to worse this weekend. They certainly don't look like a team about to surge back into form and make a run into the top four of the Premier League. But bringing in Jose Mourinho? That is absolutely not the answer," he told Eurosport.
"So to suggest that he could walk into a crisis situation at United and turn it around is absurd. That's something he's never done in his career, and this really wouldn't be the time to start. He's lost a huge amount of respect in the game, and I suspect the players at United hate the idea of him taking over.
"Frankly, given how unhappy the players are right now, they'd be better off bringing in Tim Sherwood between now and the end of the season: someone to soft soap the players, give them a bit of a cuddle, get them feeling good about themselves once again.
"Sadly, as we've seen with Tim, those sorts of managers don't work long term. And United need to start thinking about the long term as soon as possible, because if not they face the ultimate danger: turning into the new Liverpool."
He added: "None of the other available big name managers currently out of work would fit the bill either. You could give someone like Fabio Capello a call, but he'd have all the same problems that Van Gaal has faced. He's too old school, he doesn't understand the modern game and how players need to be handled today.
"There are plenty of guys out there who do - Diego Simeone, say, or Mauricio Pochettino - but none of them are going to leave at this stage of the season. There is just nobody out there who could come in, lift the dressing room, and then go on to build a brighter future for United."
Man Utd should replace Louis van Gaal with Tim Sherwood, says Paul Parker
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