Bye bye Van Gaal | Really enjoying managerial retirement

You think I wanted to know what this abomination is called? :lol:
It sounds similar to the worst type of German music.
That's not what it's called. Brabant is a province and they like this type of crap, so I said Brabandische Gemütlichkeit.
 
That's not what it's called. Brabant is a province and they like this type of crap, so I said Brabandische Gemütlichkeit.

Alright sorry, I googled it and some song came up, so I thought that was it.
 
Out biggest hit this year for those who hate music but like drinking pretending to like music.

I'm just amazed that the Dutch have the same kind of garbage music as the Germans.
 
United, the Premier League and everything that comes with it, chewed him up and spat him out. I actually found his football entertaining and attractive to watch when he first took over. But because his 532/352 didn't get instant results the pressure became immense because its all he was ever questioned about. I felt he changed his approach as a result.

Or at least that's how I remember it.
 
I'm just amazed that the Dutch have the same kind of garbage music as the Germans.
It's pretty decent in your local football canteen after 4 pints and some fried food like bitterballs.
 
United, the Premier League and everything that comes with it, chewed him up and spat him out. I actually found his football entertaining and attractive to watch when he first took over. But because his 532/352 didn't get instant results the pressure became immense because its all he was ever questioned about. I felt he changed his approach as a result.

Or at least that's how I remember it.
I think his 4-3-3 was better to watch. I remember us dominating Liverpool at Anfield. We had that trip of Herrera, Mata and someone els. His 3-5-2 wasn’t suited for the players we had. We bought Di Maria to play him where? As a CAM? And didn’t Leicester beat us 5-3 with that.
 
His diving on that touchline will always be one of my favorite United memories post-Fergie. OH, and "fat man".

There was a certain charm about LVG...

his football, at its absolute worst, was somehow even shittier than the worst of Moyes, Mou, Ole, Rangnick, ETH.
It's like he wanted you to hate football while watching it.
 
United, the Premier League and everything that comes with it, chewed him up and spat him out. I actually found his football entertaining and attractive to watch when he first took over. But because his 532/352 didn't get instant results the pressure became immense because its all he was ever questioned about. I felt he changed his approach as a result.

Or at least that's how I remember it.

He changed his approach after Leicester pulled our pants down in that 5-3 loss. That was the origin story of the Van Gaal snoozeball that ended up with me coming very close to hating watching our club play football.
 
He changed his approach after Leicester pulled our pants down in that 5-3 loss. That was the origin story of the Van Gaal snoozeball that ended up with me coming very close to hating watching our club play football.
It wasn't quite as bad as it got right after that though. We still had that run where we beat Liverpool, City and Spurs with Mata, Young, Herrera playing very nice stuff. Then the next season Rooney's legs were completely gone and Memphis flopped and Schneiderlin/Schwein came and the arse completely fell out of Louisball. Things may have been very different if we'd had a good window in Summer 2015 instead of the garbage we bought.
 
Whew that thread bump and title scared me also.

I loved him at Bayern.
He is such a special and interesting person.

I think without him and his work we wouldnt have won 2 CL titles in the last 10 years.
 
I think his 4-3-3 was better to watch. I remember us dominating Liverpool at Anfield. We had that trip of Herrera, Mata and someone els. His 3-5-2 wasn’t suited for the players we had. We bought Di Maria to play him where? As a CAM? And didn’t Leicester beat us 5-3 with that.
It was Carrick-Herrera-Fellaini trio with Mata on the right. Worked really well. Soon after Carrick got injured and we tried with Herrera at DM but that couldn't work as good.
 
The fecking smurfs and James Last. Golden Earring weren't bad and Focus did some good stuff. Jan Akkerman played a mean guitar.
James Last was German.

But how could you forget 1975 Eurovision winners Teach-In? Dinge Dong was a classic of its genre, despite its misuse of the word “uptight”.

And it was around a shared love of Radar Love that our Sixth Form, a bunch of disparate characters if ever there was one, to bond. Well, that and United.
 
James Last was German.

But how could you forget 1975 Eurovision winners Teach-In? Dinge Dong was a classic of its genre, despite its misuse of the word “uptight”.

And it was around a shared love of Radar Love that our Sixth Form, a bunch of disparate characters if ever there was one, to bond. Well, that and United.



The poster I responded to asked about Dutch and German music so I immediately thought of my old neighbour, now gone from us, who loved James Last.
Dinge-Dong was enough to make you want to pull your own teeth out.
 
His diving on that touchline will always be one of my favorite United memories post-Fergie. OH, and "fat man".

There was a certain charm about LVG...

his football, at its absolute worst, was somehow even shittier than the worst of Moyes, Mou, Ole, Rangnick, ETH.
It's like he wanted you to hate football while watching it.
100% accurate assessment of the Van Gaal era, such as it was.
 
Van Gaal and Argentinians never got on.

On the day Riquelme signed for Barca, he took him to a room, made him watch some videos and told him "with the ball at your feet you are the best player in the world but when you don't have it, we are playing with ten". Fachts.

It didn't work, of course.
 

That photo is from 2014 when he signed and just realised it's been 10 years now since that. Time flies...

Van Gaal did good job with Netherlands in 2014 and 2022 but as a club manager was past it when he came to United. Really don't like how we got rid of all players that were quite good/signed in Fergie era (Rafael, Evans, Kagawa, Nani, Zaha, Welbeck, Chicharito). I mean I get you sell some of them but Rafael was one of our best players in 12/13 season and others were good enough to be useful squad players. He also failed to replace them properly - think Romero and Blind were only good signings he made (in hindsight). Martial as well but that didn't work out in the end unfortunately.
 
Di maria :lol: the wettest lettuce to ever play for United alongside sancho
 
That photo is from 2014 when he signed and just realised it's been 10 years now since that. Time flies...

Van Gaal did good job with Netherlands in 2014 and 2022 but as a club manager was past it when he came to United. Really don't like how we got rid of all players that were quite good/signed in Fergie era (Rafael, Evans, Kagawa, Nani, Zaha, Welbeck, Chicharito). I mean I get you sell some of them but Rafael was one of our best players in 12/13 season and others were good enough to be useful squad players. He also failed to replace them properly - think Romero and Blind were only good signings he made (in hindsight). Martial as well but that didn't work out in the end unfortunately.
Rafael was plagued with injuries and we'd have played Valencia as RB all the time anyway.
 
Honestly, who cares what Di Maria thinks. He never even wanted to be here in the first place.

Van Gaal was past it when he got here but at least he left us all with some funny memories. His drunken awards speech was absolutely iconic.
 
Be interesting to see if he expands on it.
There's some kind of documentary on Di Maria coming to Netflix in a couple of weeks. I don't know who the hell asked for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's expanded on there.
 
There's some kind of documentary on Di Maria coming to Netflix in a couple of weeks. I don't know who the hell asked for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's expanded on there.

Im sure hes pretty well regarded by every fanbase outside of ours and Im sure hes seen as some sort of legend by Argentina fans so they will all be chomping at the bit to watch it.

United fans on the other hand are likely to review bomb it like we did with Pogbas trash documentary :lol: