Nathan Cowan on Why LVG Needs to Go.....

Should Manchester United sack Louis Van Gaal before the end of the season?

Louis Van Gaal started his career at Manchester United quite well in 2014 on the back of a good world cup with Holland. However it all went a bit downhill from Christmas time/New year for the Red Devils as they fell away from the title race and have struggled to be a title contender ever since. This season hasn’t been like any other normal season with Leicester being in with a chance of winning it and Chelsea in potentially being relegated after winning the title last year. United started their season of well but then injuries started to come in thick and fast and they just went downhill from there.

 

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I think Van Gaal should be sacked as soon as possible because the United fans are starting to get fed up with his boring style of play. Manchester United just pass the ball about at the back with no real idea of how to penetrate the opposition defence. It is a style that has never suited a Manchester United team who has always wanted to attack and score goals with previous manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

 

Manchester United have also failed to get out of the Champions’ league group stages coming 3^rd and being put into the Europa League where they faced Denmark’s tiny FC Midtylland and were beaten 2-1 in the first leg. This is just such an embarrassment for such a big club to be getting beat from a little team from Denmark. They managed to pull it back though in the second leg by running riot with a 5-1 victory at Old Trafford and giving a debut to 18 year old Marcus Rashford who scored a double and then scored another double the weekend after in the 3-2 victory over big rivals Arsenal. 

18 year old Marcus Rashford with two goals on his debut for Man U

 

In my opinion Van Gaal has had time to prove himself and has failed to do so. I think the best person to replace him would be Jose Mourinho because he has won at least a trophy at every team he has been at and if the fans and board want Ronaldo to come back to the club or get Gareth Bale or another really big player to the club their best chance would be with him Mourinho because of his big status as a manager. These players will have played with him before so they would know his style of play and be able to get on with him. The only problem that would come with Mourinho is that his style of play is different to the typical Manchester United sides that use to dominate not only England but Europe as well. Mourinho has said he would adapt his somewhat negative style and play the Manchester United way should he get the job.

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Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton have both came out and openly admitted that they don’t want Mourinho at their club because they don’t think he will change his style of play. They think he just wants a good managerial job in England again after the mutual agreement with the Chelsea board that he would leave last November after 4 months of being in the bottom half of the league and falling out with some of the coaching staff, some of the board, and most importantly a sizeable proportion of the dressing room

So, unless Louis Van Gaal can either win the FA cup or win the Europa league and end up in the Champions league qualifying positions by the end of the season, it should really be out with the old and in with the new before it’s too late at Old Trafford.

 

by Nathan Cowan