Lakshay Khurana
Trying his best to do all he can, Van Gaal has somehow failed to manage Manchester United. Despite having an admirable managerial career, the Dutch manager lacked the quality of a top-class manager in-charge of a world class club.
The board has decided to replace Louis Van Gaal if the team fails to qualify for the Champions League next season. Unless anyone has ecstatically remained unaware the past one or two months, you’d have heard that Jose Mourinho is most likely to replace Louis Van Gaal as the manager of Manchester United after this season.
The Dutch boss still has another year remaining in his contract at Manchester United and he will surely be hoping for some miracles at the end of the season to occur to save his position at the club.
Even though his ways of managing the club and coaching the team have not yet been a complete success, it has not been that bad either. We’ve still witnessed some good football by United at multiple occasions.
Van Gaal has managed to keep the Manchester United way of producing and experimenting with academy players alive and has done well in that field.
Players like Fosu-Mensah, Marcus Rashford, Tyler Reid, Ro-Shaun Williams and many others have got a breakthrough under Van Gaal. The manager has done quite some fantastic work in giving young players some experience and experimenting different formations. He has tested players to play at different positions with different roles and still have won many matches doing so.
His so-called philosophy is certainly not the best to suite Manchester United but it is not the worst either. Many fans call it boring football, I call it possession play. Of course, one cannot expect to watch the Fergie style of football with constant counter attacks. It’s high time now and fans should be used to see a different kind of play. I know it doesn’t work very well, but neither did Fergie’s in his first few years at the club.
If there has to be a replacement of Van Gaal, which is Mourinho most likely, he would obviously carry on with his own ways by which he himself has achieved a lot throughout Europe. But a complete boycott of Louis Van Gaal’s way can be ruthless for the club.
The team now has started to go the way the Dutch manager wanted to in the first place and now if whole new tactics kick in, then the team will take another significant amount of time to adjust to that.
Jose Mourinho isn’t known as the person who relies even a bit on the academy players of the club, but he might have to get rid of that attitude at Manchester United, and continue to remain with the legacy and ways of the club as it have been over the decades.
