It didn't. He dodged the question.
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Don't joke with LvG
If he refused to play for the reserves I am guessing it would've been very early on after he arrived. So why did he continue to put him on the bench and only now cut him off? He could've given those opportunities to someone that would've benefited from the experience and that we could plan around. Something doesn't add up here.
We signed him as cover for De Gea. When your number one only misses one game through reason your number two will always struggle for minutes.
Romero it is.
Refused to play with U21 probably
Didnt he answer that one with - you write rubbish. Dodging a question doesnt mean Romero is coming.
Why would it make a difference? He wasnt good enough. If we sell DDG we'd buy a good goalkeeper to replace him not one that can be replaced by Sergio Romero
Two players who had a very good relationship with Van Gaal now binned. Ruthless.
Wasn't the rumour that Monaco were paying a large part of his salary? Probably made sense as a low risk move if so.
Regarding Romero LVG said something like "I cannot answer that. Maybe you are right. Maybe you are wrong"
I know I'm agreeing with you.
Not the first time this summer.Think its fair to say I was wrong about Valdes being our new #1
Reports coming in that Geoff Shreeves is on his way to tell Victor the news.
I think LvG expected him to follow his philosophy initially. Our manager wouldn't have signed him if he knew Valdés wouldn't.
I really don't think he was ruthless at all, just honest.
Guess this is our first Van Gaal fall-out. We knew they happened sometimes when he didn't feel a player was able to take instruction. I'm just glad it's someone none of us really give a feck about.
Hm. The question has to be what the hell the expectations were on both sides before he signed. Sounds as though he's been on Aloysius' bad side for a good while.
Odd business. But good riddance. Definitely seems like he's been acting quite the twat here.
Odd business. But good riddance. Definitely seems like he's been acting quite the twat here.
I know you are. Second sentence wasnt for you.
Imagine how Valdes must be feeling right about now having watched that from England/Spain or wherever he is. Surely he must've known what LvG said, at least I hope he didn't find out by watching the presser.
i feel a bit indifferent to this. don't really care. surely when he was signed LvG would of told him he was going to be used this way?
Eating your greens is the number 1 rule in the Van Gaal family philosophy.
One thing this Valdes + RvP (to a lesser extent) business does is make sure everyone is left in no doubt that they will be dropped and/or shipped out if they don't toe the line (it was RvP's age tbf, but people were unsure due to his relationship with LvG).
We've needed this kind of ruthlessness ever since Fegie left -- maybe even a year or two before he left.
Thanks for your debut against arse.
De Gea's not going anywhere if we don't want him to. We've played the whole thing beautifully with the Ramos stuff, and by all accounts are now well in control of the situation.
We've got the edge in that De Gea is too much of a professional to act up because we're refusing to sell him, whereas Ramos is the sort who will cause all sorts of trouble if he's unhappy. Plus we know that next summer we'll want the same things, we'll have the same CEO, same manager, same strategy and financial directives. Madrid don't have a clue what's going to happen to them from one season to the next.
Well I guess it's a shame we've missed out on Begovic then.
You have to be ruthless and Valdes should know better than most that LVG would not put up with any shit
We're being linked with Romero in the past few days.
And if for whatever reason we didn't manage to sign a replacement keeper for DDG, we'd be left with just Lindegaard. Worst case scenario with Valdes as our number 1 isn't that bad, he's still a very good goalkeeper.
Also reports about bidding for Oblak might not be far off the mark
Good riddance.
Not good enough to replace De Gea and if he's refusing to play games after we gave him a contract and paid for his rehab after Monaco rejected him then his attitude isn't even good enough for him to be a part of the squad.
Plus it's always a positive to have another Mendes client off our books.
Not good enough to replace De Gea and if he's refusing to play games after we gave him a contract and paid for his rehab after Monaco rejected him then his attitude isn't even good enough for him to be a part of the squad.
Plus it's always a positive to have another Mendes client off our books.
So next year it's either a new keeper of LvG/Hoek choice or DDG in goal. Very happy with that.
He wasnt any better than Lindegaard, when he actually bothered to play for the reserves. He was letting in weak goals at that level let alone for the first team. All we've lost is a name
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