Some of you people are really impossible to please. To me it's starting to clear up a bit what he was actually doing. You look at the transfers (the quiet ones) and promotions he was looking to strengthen the english core. I think that's a honorable thing by a foreign manager.
The transfer market was a big blow to him. His big profile transfers were unfair treatment. Real Madrid knew they were selling a hopeless player. Di Maria is a work horse with flair equipped with an extremely sulky primadonna mentality. Guys like him will never be pleased with anything. Real Madrid are not a selling club - they would never sell a player they need or think highly of. They even let players like Higuain move if they want someone bigger on their scene.
Schweinsteiger was a huge betrayal by Bayern. What looked to be a gentleman agreement turned out to be another fraud, just like the Hargreaves transfer. What would have been their problem was now thrown over on our side! Then they continued with the below belt punches by saying we treated their world beater like a dog, knowing damn well it would have been the exact same thing they'd done and actually was about to do before we stepped into the picture.
Schneiderlin was a huge mistake. Everyone thought the guy was class, but it turned out he couldn't even pass a ball. Not that he needed to do much of that in his previous club. His biggest problem was that he didn't have the big club mentality. He shrunk whenever having to walk on the grass of Old Trafford. Sad but true.
Falcao - anyone trying to be smart here will look very foolish. The equivalent of this signing today would be Ronaldo or Suarez. Then imagine these guys not even being able to play in the U21. Unthinkable. But it did happen, how can you calculate with that???
Memphis - Called play station generation. Not the first dutch player to fail in the PL. Not the last. Not much to say about this guy more than he let his own interest be above the club. A really disloyal player
Valdes - not really a signing. He just added to the problems we already had and spread his big star mentality problem in the club. Didn't help us at all even though we gave him the chance to join us. Betrayal.
The squad LVG inherited was nothing. Almost every player was going downhill and the mentality of the club had turned into loser (Evertonian). One could argue LVG had to use a lot of time to deMoyes the players. £350m in transfer costs is not much looking at where we were at the time.
Anyone who like to argue with this need to put up their facts. Not much we could have sold to net it out either!!!!!!
Regarding the football being played I don't have much to add. It might not be his strength making average players play quality football. Perhaps he did the most out of what could be done with the material? And do remember the patch Jose went through just recently. It's not easy to get a team work 100%. I don't think Jose could have done much if you excluded Pogba, Ibra, Mhiki and Bailly.
However, the most astonishing thing is the way some board members attack a manager who actually won us something and left us with some useful players. Moyes is one thing but LVG did IMPROVE. I honestly believed in class, history, standing by your own and all that bullshit up until this affair ended. We always cheer our own players when they return playing for another team. Looks like this is don't apply on a FA-cup winning manager. I'd say a lot is down to a video game generation who all of a sudden get to air their opinion from their chair thousands of miles away from where things actually take place.
Football must be the only industry where a clown who repeatedly gets sacked, from nearly every job he assumes, can be considered a 'great'.