Manchester United fan mails on LVG

Found these on football365, some Manchester United's fans thoughts on Louis Van Gaal. Continue

LVG is not a football manager…Before I rant, let me be clear, i am 33 years old, and was BORN a Manchester Utd supporter, not made. Never have I seen such dire football being played by my beloved team. Even under Sir Alex, we played some “bad football” but we still at least had more than 1 shot on target, that was not a set piece from an overpaid, overweight, wanabe poem writer. With the amount of money that LVG has spent in the last 2 seasons, his refusal to play players in their strongest position and blinding refusal to acknowledge Rooney’s dip in form it is time for him to call it a day, and retire. This is not a football manager but a senile old man.
Mohamed (watched my son’s U8 team play better than Utd vs Palace)

He’s clueless17-Aug Van Gaal said: “I always have confidence in my players. But we don’t have only Rooney in the strikers position, we have Januzaj. I’ve given him that chance and he’s shown that he can do that. We have Chicharito, we have Wilson, so I don’t think we have a lack of strikers

25 Aug – Last year Fellaini scored seven times and Van Gaal is clear the 27-year-old can offer a threat in attack. “He can play in a 9 position and in a 10 but also 6 and 8 but this year he shall play more 10 and 9 than 6 and 8 because there [in midfield] we have more players,” he said

31 Aug – Chicharito and Januzaj leave for the Bundesliga; United sign Martial who scores on debut against Liverpool and follows that with two goals against Sunderland

31 Oct – After the 3rd successive 0-0 draw and over 5 hours since scoring – “We don’t know (Martial’s best position) yet because he played always in Monaco as a left winger; as manager I have to see what is the best balance in the team. “That’s not so simple, so I have to decide every week dependable on the game plan and qualities of opponent, and so on. In Monaco he played more or less always on the left wing.”

1 Nov – Van Gaal says Fellaini is not competing against Wayne Rooney and others for forward positions however, but he is instead up against Morgan Schneiderlin, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ander Herrera for a place in midfield. “He has to compete as a midfielder because he is more a midfielder than a striker,” Van Gaal told Manchester United’s official website.
​James Wilson meanwhile has played 2 games

​Looks like he’s as clueless about his strikers as we are about his philosophy.​​
Balakrishnan Vijay

Support for the Dutchman

I have been a Man Utd fan for many a year, 25 to be more precise, so I don’t want to say I’m in love with the way we play these days in comparison to years gone by. I realise LVG has spent a lot of money but I still feel no need to panic over laborious draws and ‘barely wins’. To me the EPL has always been a marathon and not a sprint and there will be good and bad weeks. Sure, the lack of creativity is at times a worry but I often feel like many Utd fans see things through Fergie tinted spectacles. I know excitement is lacking but I can’t say that any of his purchases have been bad, they might under perform at times but, for me, never bad.

I still think we’ll coast, however boring, to a top 4 finish. I’m just pleased that LVG was brought in to steady a sinking ship and has done that. The age of the squad has been reduced and got rid of a lot of dead weight. He has also reiterated on several occasions how he will see out his contract and retire. He is essentially fixing an ocean liner to hand it over. I fully appreciate that I take a long term vision approach to supporting my team. If you’re fixing a ship I would rather long term solutions before buying an expensive cork to plug the whole for now hence Young/Valencia at RB. It might be a while before Utd get back to the glory days but be thankful the boat (metaphor officially dead) ain’t sinking no more.
Martin (I actually hate boats!) Hong Kong

Obviously any united stat or certain spell for player or team is blown out of all proportion due to the huge media interest but a few nils nils after scoring 3 goals on their travels a few times and certain fans on here call for LVG out !!! Its quite amazing how pathetic some fans are. This never happened under Fergie we want to be entertained etc etc. Well it did happen under Fergie in 2005 with a certain Paul Scholes in the team and rather than sacking Fergie with a few changes the goals started to come

Do you really think after the last couple of seasons united should sack the manager for being 5 points off the top of the table, a lot has been made of the time and minutes since the last goal ( in a 3 nil away game ) including a team with 9 changes again Boro, so lets sack the manager and then maybe they will then point out that LVG was sacked at Man Utd after playing 461 minutes without conceding a goal. In other leagues that would be seen as building a very firm base and adding goals is the easy part. Whatever happens with LVG he has started to build a quality squad again and that take time to gell.
Steve James

So United fans, do you think these guys are onto something?