He's now playing Falcao against out under 21's
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Edit: also Valdes and Rafael.....what an academy!
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Edit: also Valdes and Rafael.....what an academy!
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is Louis van gaal a knob
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Bullet dodged big time. The anti Spurs press would have been taking the piss out of him from day one. I can't believe how bad his English is for a Dutch man. Most I've meet can speak English better than me. Not too hard may I add
No.
:avblol:
LVG steals the show
the Valdes situation is very odd for all concerned
Take a look at @Beijingcasuals's Tweet:
Boo boo. He makes a bunch of millionaires actually do the work they are paid to do.
He's a manipulative psychopath.
Wow!! a new concept in football, train the players a little harder?
If he gets results , no one will care including the players.
If he gets results , no one will care including the players.
We've been through this cycle a few times ourselves have we not
Someone like van Gaal has earned the right to be, or at least appear to be, a bit of a prick.
It's when you get managers who have achieved very little but still act with arrogance unfettered (cough Rodgers cough) that eyebrows want raising.
Besides, van Gaal is at least pretty funny at times.
It's when you get managers who have achieved very little but still act with arrogance unfettered (cough Rodgers cough) that eyebrows want raising.
Besides, van Gaal is at least pretty funny at times.
Man U were selling De Gea to Real. Romero has a bad day, doubt creeps in.
No replacement keeper except Valdes who Van Gaal has publicly slated, telling him he has no future. Remember they were selling Valdes and it wasn't there intent to stop that deal going through. So, Van Gaal was really going to go with Romero.
Why the fuck would Real Madrid intentionally scupper the deal? It was Man U who were left with one keeper - who looked Dodgy - and, not intentionally, another Van Gaal would have had to eat humble pie to play.
Van Gaal and Woodward made sure it wouldn't go through.
They had more to lose.
Oh, and Van Gaal not only is a knob he looks like a 50 yr old gay porn stars knob.
No replacement keeper except Valdes who Van Gaal has publicly slated, telling him he has no future. Remember they were selling Valdes and it wasn't there intent to stop that deal going through. So, Van Gaal was really going to go with Romero.
Why the fuck would Real Madrid intentionally scupper the deal? It was Man U who were left with one keeper - who looked Dodgy - and, not intentionally, another Van Gaal would have had to eat humble pie to play.
Van Gaal and Woodward made sure it wouldn't go through.
They had more to lose.
Oh, and Van Gaal not only is a knob he looks like a 50 yr old gay porn stars knob.
The Knob gets bigger everyday
is he talking about his garden fence?
sorry, but if -and it's a big fucking if - this man would have come to Spurs we would have been crucified in the media and been the laughing stock of the red tops.
AVB got cunted off for squatting on the touchline and was ridiculed by Samuel and Ashton for far less.
is he talking about his garden fence?
sorry, but if -and it's a big fucking if - this man would have come to Spurs we would have been crucified in the media and been the laughing stock of the red tops.
AVB got cunted off for squatting on the touchline and was ridiculed by Samuel and Ashton for far less.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jermaine Jenas: LVG should heed Utd warnings - or pay with his job
Jermaine Jenas explains why Louis van Gaal must heed his United players' complaints because unless he makes some changes, it will only end one way: with LVG losing his job.
By Jermaine Jenas18 hours ago
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Louis van Gaal
Manchester United may have beaten Liverpool at the weekend, but that victory only papers over the cracks of deeper problems at Old Trafford. Firstly, that was one of the worst Liverpool sides you'll see for a long time. Secondly, the suggestion that many of United's players are unhappy withLouis van Gaal's rigid coaching methods is a serious problem for the manager. Unless he makes some changes, it will only end one way: with Van Gaal losing his job.
One thing players hate is to feel restricted, and United look like a team playing without freedom. They have signed flair players, but they don't play with flair. Some players are best when they’re instinctive but if you're constantly thinking - especially as a forward – ‘I can't go into that area, I can't go too deep to get the ball, I'm not allowed to do that’, creativity is immediately stifled. I can count on one hand the amount of entertaining performances I've seen from Man Utd since Van Gaal arrived. They have been winning games, but if Van Gaal's formula is making the players unhappy it will come at a cost.
Van Gaal knows it's happening, and he's managed to get rid of a few who he thinks are having a negative influence on the group. But the problem for Van Gaal is that there is only one winner in these types of situations. Ultimately, the players have the most power because they can down tools and say. 'I can't play for a manager like this’.
England as a manager, you have to be especially flexible because the English mentality is different.
When Juande Ramos was at Tottenham, I played some of my best football. I really took to his methods and regimes, but I was very much in the minority.
The food he had us on was disgusting. Everything was dry and completely flavourless. If you had pasta, you were not allowed any sauce on it whatsoever. If you wanted flavour you had to create it yourself using very meagre options - like a bit of olive oil, salt or lemon juice. That was it. If you had chicken, again it would be dry and plain.
Ledley King and I told Ramos this but he'd say, "This is all natural foods, it's good for you - you have to eat it."
Sometimes me and Aaron Lennon would try to sneakily eat a couple of wine gums at the back of the bus, but having a bag of sweets felt like breaking the law. When Ramos appeared we'd hide them behind our backs. I was 25 years old and hiding a bag of sweets.
Eventually Marcos said, "OK, I'll try to do something," and the next time we came in at half-time he gave us the cups and beamed, "You'll like this one". It was basically the same stuff, except he'd put a crushed bourbon biscuit in it to try to make it chocolately. Ridiculous.
Sometime Marcos would do little trials on the training ground. He'd hand you a cup and say, "Taste this". You'd try it and say, “That's horrible, what is it?” It would always be the same – potato, rice, water, maybe a bit of fruit. But the bourbon did make it taste slightly better, I'll give him that.\
Tom Huddlestone. He was asking Tom to get down to a weight he had never been. I was with Tom at Forest at Under-14 level, and he was exactly the same size as he is now - Ramos wanted him to weigh less than when he was a kid.
All these things built up and eventually we had a team meeting and the players said, “We can't do it anymore. I can't live my life like this.” It was borderline depression.
Man Utd players apparently went three weeks without a day off, and Ramos was very similar. It's not the physical element that players are bothered about; it's the mental switch-off. When you've been travelling around Europe and staying in hotels, you just want to spend time with the family for a day or two. It recharges you, and we never really had that.
I recall a time we battered Besiktas in the Europa League. They had a player sent off after about 25 minutes, but even then we played so well that their fans clapped us off the pitch. We had to stay in Turkey for the night and the next day Ramos organised a training session. We all assumed it would be just for the ones who hadn't played, but he made the starting XI do it as well. We couldn’t believe it. “They went down to 10 men so you didn't have to work. Today we're going to work,” Ramos said. Then he put on a ridiculous running session. We were doing sprints down the pitch, then sit-ups, then two sprints, then more sit-ups – the morning after winning a game. That was when he started to lose the majority of the players - when they started to say, “I don't care how fit you're making me, I'm not happy”. Ramos completely lost the group in the end, and that was how it started.
It was a shame because he was a top coach - I thought he was brilliant - but a little bit of flexibility would have gone a long way in terms of the players standing by him. It will be similar with Van Gaal. He needs to be flexible, because players are very powerful. The minute they are unhappy, they don't play well and they stop winning games, and the first person to go when that happens is the manager.
Jermaine Jenas explains why Louis van Gaal must heed his United players' complaints because unless he makes some changes, it will only end one way: with LVG losing his job.
By Jermaine Jenas18 hours ago
.
View photo
Louis van Gaal
Manchester United may have beaten Liverpool at the weekend, but that victory only papers over the cracks of deeper problems at Old Trafford. Firstly, that was one of the worst Liverpool sides you'll see for a long time. Secondly, the suggestion that many of United's players are unhappy withLouis van Gaal's rigid coaching methods is a serious problem for the manager. Unless he makes some changes, it will only end one way: with Van Gaal losing his job.
One thing players hate is to feel restricted, and United look like a team playing without freedom. They have signed flair players, but they don't play with flair. Some players are best when they’re instinctive but if you're constantly thinking - especially as a forward – ‘I can't go into that area, I can't go too deep to get the ball, I'm not allowed to do that’, creativity is immediately stifled. I can count on one hand the amount of entertaining performances I've seen from Man Utd since Van Gaal arrived. They have been winning games, but if Van Gaal's formula is making the players unhappy it will come at a cost.
Van Gaal knows it's happening, and he's managed to get rid of a few who he thinks are having a negative influence on the group. But the problem for Van Gaal is that there is only one winner in these types of situations. Ultimately, the players have the most power because they can down tools and say. 'I can't play for a manager like this’.
England as a manager, you have to be especially flexible because the English mentality is different.
When Juande Ramos was at Tottenham, I played some of my best football. I really took to his methods and regimes, but I was very much in the minority.
The food he had us on was disgusting. Everything was dry and completely flavourless. If you had pasta, you were not allowed any sauce on it whatsoever. If you wanted flavour you had to create it yourself using very meagre options - like a bit of olive oil, salt or lemon juice. That was it. If you had chicken, again it would be dry and plain.
Ledley King and I told Ramos this but he'd say, "This is all natural foods, it's good for you - you have to eat it."
Sometimes me and Aaron Lennon would try to sneakily eat a couple of wine gums at the back of the bus, but having a bag of sweets felt like breaking the law. When Ramos appeared we'd hide them behind our backs. I was 25 years old and hiding a bag of sweets.
Eventually Marcos said, "OK, I'll try to do something," and the next time we came in at half-time he gave us the cups and beamed, "You'll like this one". It was basically the same stuff, except he'd put a crushed bourbon biscuit in it to try to make it chocolately. Ridiculous.
Sometime Marcos would do little trials on the training ground. He'd hand you a cup and say, "Taste this". You'd try it and say, “That's horrible, what is it?” It would always be the same – potato, rice, water, maybe a bit of fruit. But the bourbon did make it taste slightly better, I'll give him that.\
Tom Huddlestone. He was asking Tom to get down to a weight he had never been. I was with Tom at Forest at Under-14 level, and he was exactly the same size as he is now - Ramos wanted him to weigh less than when he was a kid.
All these things built up and eventually we had a team meeting and the players said, “We can't do it anymore. I can't live my life like this.” It was borderline depression.
Man Utd players apparently went three weeks without a day off, and Ramos was very similar. It's not the physical element that players are bothered about; it's the mental switch-off. When you've been travelling around Europe and staying in hotels, you just want to spend time with the family for a day or two. It recharges you, and we never really had that.
I recall a time we battered Besiktas in the Europa League. They had a player sent off after about 25 minutes, but even then we played so well that their fans clapped us off the pitch. We had to stay in Turkey for the night and the next day Ramos organised a training session. We all assumed it would be just for the ones who hadn't played, but he made the starting XI do it as well. We couldn’t believe it. “They went down to 10 men so you didn't have to work. Today we're going to work,” Ramos said. Then he put on a ridiculous running session. We were doing sprints down the pitch, then sit-ups, then two sprints, then more sit-ups – the morning after winning a game. That was when he started to lose the majority of the players - when they started to say, “I don't care how fit you're making me, I'm not happy”. Ramos completely lost the group in the end, and that was how it started.
It was a shame because he was a top coach - I thought he was brilliant - but a little bit of flexibility would have gone a long way in terms of the players standing by him. It will be similar with Van Gaal. He needs to be flexible, because players are very powerful. The minute they are unhappy, they don't play well and they stop winning games, and the first person to go when that happens is the manager.
Was the madrid keeper not part of the deal?