Personal opinion is he is actually spot on. Nothing to add nothing to remove.

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I agree with him. I mean c'mon. It shouldn't take 92 minutes to score a goal against a League 1 team. That to, a penalty. Goals are what win games and not possession. Even in FIFA, I can win a game 8-0 while only having 30% possession. Tbh, I don't really like him as a manager and I never liked him at all.

Van Gaal has really failed to adapt to the PL and to ManUs historic style of play. It's kind of sad to see them play, I haven't gotten through a full 90 mins of them.

Please listen to what I am about to say and please don't judge based on my username.

Most of what is happening is not Van Gaal's fault. Do you really think that Van Gaal tells his players to play boring football and not attack and not score? Of course not!! His style is to keep the ball at all times, but still try to attack. Every team plays a possession based style nowadays but the difference is that they are still able to find a way to attack and score. Based on this, the blame has to be on the players. The players play with no excitement and no desire to attack. Part of this is yes, because Louis tells them to always keep the ball as much as possible meaning they rarely try to risk something to try to score because they may lose the ball. Hence this is why everyone says the players have no freedom and and are trapped under Van Gaal. Still, the point of football is to score and win and the players obviously know this and should be trying their best to do this.

A second reason why this is not Van Gaal's fault is because of how unlucky Van Gaal has been with the results of all their transfers. It seems like almost every player Van Gaal buys can perform elsewhere but not at United. Di Maria, Depay, Schweinsteiger, Darmian, Falcao and probably many more who I have forgotten have all been amazing in a different league and team but have all gone on to flop at United. How can you blame LVG for that? He buys a player and expects them to perform like they have in the past.

Apart from his signings, players like Rooney, Mata, and Fellaini who have been at the club for awhile and are expected and supposed to be the ones that lead our team have been so poor and done nothing to help us. No disrespect to Scholes but how can he say that Rooney is our best player? That guy has been awful all season and we actually have been kicking the ball to him but he has done nothing with it. To be able to score we need a good striker who can actually finish or good wingers who can create chances and ,sometimes score. We tend to actually send balls out wide and down the middle (to try to not be boring and score) but nothing has happened when we do that because our strikers and wingers seem to not be able to beat opponents and try to score.

Young players are inconsistent. A lot of you guys are probably saying that Martial is our good striker and can give us goals but he isn't because of his inconsistency. Our team is starting to be built around young players which is good and bad. It is good because it means our future will be bright and because we are developing our players for the future. It is bad because all young players are inconsistent. Depay, Martial, Darmian, Januzaj, Lingard and Jones have all been good one week and awful the next. LVG's plan has been to build a future for this club which is good for later on but it also means we are pretty much screwed right now. In five years, believe me we will be the best club in the world but for now we will continue to be all the over the place. LVG is currently stuck with having decide between a bunch of inconsistent young players hoping they will perform. So far all those players mentioned have performed once in awhile but have also been garbage a lot of the time. LVG cannot tell when these youngsters will perform well or poorly. In general he can't tell when any of our players are going to play well because practically everyone has been inconsistent this season.

I hope you read all of this and understand my point that it is not entirely LVG's fault that United suck right now.

I know a lot of you hate LVG and probably about to hate on me for saying this, but please see that this is just MY OPINION so please respect it.

Thank for reading this,

The fake LVG.

@louis

Read this understanding that I do want to retain Van Gaal for the remainder of his contract.

That being said, you're correct on all your facts, but wrong in your interpretation of almost all of them.

Yes, players try their best to score. However, the system that is employed promotes control through ball possession. That means that the 50/50 passes (or even lower percentage passes) don't happen in the United team anymore. The reason low percentage passes are worth playing is because those are the passes that carve apart a defence and catch people out of position. When was the last time United caught a CB out of position? I'll give you a hint, hasn't happened through passing all season. My issue with the style of play is that it limits chance, and therefore, creativity. That is 99% on the manager.

Your second point was regarding transfers. Every player we bring in, without exception (although you could maybe make a case for Martial) under Van Gaal and Moyes played better at their previous club. Every player we sell plays better at their new club (exceptions for Anderson and RVP). That is awful, and signals a MASSIVE problem with the club. I can, and will, attribute much of that to Van Gaal.

Young players are spotty, and I respect Van Gaal's confidence to play them. Imo, it's his best quality.

So no, it's not all Van Gaal's fault. But he's certainly part of the problem.

@SunFlash

What you said about 50/50 passes was what I meant when I talked about how they rarely try to risk something (50/50 passes) because they can never lose they ball because it is the style LVG wants them to play. I never really thought about the whole idea of low percentage passes being able to catch defenders out of position, but this does make sense and is something LVG should encourage his team to do.

What you said about the transfers makes me realize that maybe LVG could take some blame for his decisions to buy certain players. LVG should have maybe realized that a player like Di Maria would really struggle in a system that is against creativity (Di Maria being a creative player) but I think he bought him so he could adjust into a new system and Di Maria being such a good player should have been able to make this adjustment and adapt well. He clearly was not able to do that at all making it not really LVG's fault in that aspect. On a player like Schweinsteiger, LVG can not be blamed. Schweinsteiger is a player who is very basic and plays possession and should have flourished under LVG. Instead he has been pretty horrible and not been anything close to the player he was at Bayern. I could go on and on about every player he has bought but that would take forever :)

So I can now agree with you that he is PART of the problem. Only a part. The rest is the players the board and many other people involved in the club.

You have to think about what falls under LVG's responsibilities. Creating a system to fit your current players or bringing in layers to fit a desire system, motivating players, tweaking the system when it isn't working, finding alternatives, those are all LVG's responsibilities.

Sure, LVG has had it rough with injuries to key players but so has Arsenal, Liverpool, etc.

LVG has been so strict with his system that players can't express their style. Mata is a central attack mid, yet he players on the right, Martial is great as a striker and hes playing on either wing. Hes got Valencia (currently injured) and Young sitting in the bench instead of trying them as wingers and when they play its as full backs. I'm sorry but with the amount of money he has invested you think there would be some real cover for positions.

LVG will most likely stay till the end of the season unless they suddenly fall down to 6th or lower. LVG fixed some problems from Moyes era but there still a lot of work to be done for the next manager. Getting Depay to play at his potential seems to be the biggest one.

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