It took a long time for me to admit but his tenure has been an absolute catastrophe and for me it's sailed past the 'Worse than Moyes' mark.
He has invested heavily in our squad, players are coming back from injury but when you look at the line ups we're putting out, there is serious lack of quality. When I saw the lineup, at home against an average Liverpool side I just knew a two goal win was never gonna happen.
The defense has also been letting in a high number of good chances, but has been saved by United having the best shot stopper in the world. It's a sad and twisted realization to think that if de Gea had gone, van Gaal would probably been gone now.
He has thrown his philosophy out the window, when LvG Fellaini would probably have left on loan if it weren't for injury. He didn't fit the philosophy and rightly so. Pressing, movement, tactical discipline and crisp passing was what he was implementing. This has been abandoned, you can see that we're just trying to cope with each passing game rather than implementing a plan. There aren't any foundations being laid anymore, they've been abandoned.
It is basic psychology, if you make a mistake you can see your boss sitting there with no emotion making a note of it, you become scared of taking any risk.
He has been credited and rightly so by giving the youth a chance, but those who I'd call potential future high class players are the ones that can't catch a break. Pereira came on for Lingard for 2 minutes some time ago, he beat a man and had a shot. Both not a feature of safe Lingard's game. Pereira hasn't been seen since. Januzaj also seems to have no future under van Gaal.
There aren't many managers who commentate as often as van Gaal on the match going fans. If the cheer and clap he will always interpret that as to him doing a good job, surely you see that the ball is in the hands of our match going fans. He has to be let known without question that he's doing a bad job.
