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Please tell me, whom did Van Gaal buy and sell after 6 months for less.
Players he got rid of were mostly not 'his' players and that's the first point (bar an uninterested Di Maria who was gash and Falcao that needs no explaining). Secondly, some of those players already had a very doubtful future ahead of them before LvG came and would be sold by the majority on here. He should have convinced Hernandez to stay as a squad player but the question is whether he himself would have liked that role. He has barely set the world alight at Madrid as well and don't tell me you believe he would be scoring here like he does at Leverkusen, esp under this system. Rafael was barely fit, otherwise he would have been given another season (still should have been given a chance) but the point is I doubt it was his ability that convinced LvG but fitness issues. Kagawa was underused before LvG even came and seemingly wasn't sure himself if he wants to stay the moment Dortmund came calling. Who else?
A really really bad version of Pirlo, Vidal and Pogba. Really bad.
This, so much this! I agree that he's been poor as of late, and he deserves criticism for that. But some people are so disgustingly over the top I can't actually be bothered to read player performance threads. So much negativity and animosity towards players who are going through a poor run of form, or who are suffering under the shite tactics. Players aren't being given time to settle, they aren't allowed to go through a dip in form or even have a poor game, they're being attacked for things that have nothing to do with football, and trying not to slam them for every little thing ends up with you being accused of making excuses.
Get out of here with this fecking garbage.
He did the dirty work up until Wanyama arrived. With Wanyama being the more limited of the two, Schneiderlin was deployed more as a box-to-box type player after his arrival and was great at it, and was easily their best player.
I personally don't think he's good enough to be a box to box player. He has limited passing range and doesn't seem to have goals in his armoury.
You know I'm one of LvG's biggest critics. However, I'm sure you can't blame LvG for his poor passing, lack of exploiting space in front and vision during the match. Blind and Smalling are having to do the work for him it seems.
I think he is being asked to play like Carrick and that comes with a responsibility to change his whole mind set. He will get there in time but people have to also understand these things take time, he made a name for himself by playing in different way from what he is being tasked to do.
