What a defeat Manchester United and coach Louis van Gaal have a 0 in the English League Cup: must plug the 4-0 swatter against a third division.
The former Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has disgraced himself with his club Manchester United after the failed season start in the Premier League and League Cup. The English giants defeated in the second round at third division Milton Keynes Dons 0: 4 (0: 1).
United, who had recently established with the signing of Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria for 75 million euros a British transfer record, could get in the first two games in the Premier League only one point. William Grigg (25/63). Benik Afobe and (70th / 84th) sealed the embarrassing end for Manchester.
In contrast, coach Felix Magath experienced with the second division FC Fulham after four defeats to league start a first successful experience in the Cup. The crew of the 61-year-old sat in the league rivals FC Brentford 1: by and is in the third round: 0 (0: 0). Star Shopping Ross McCormack (69th) scored the decisive goal.
Manchester United Cup fiasco: Van Gaal, the wrecking ball
Actually things for Louis van Gaal could not have gone better. The big Manchester United is one of four running up third division called Milton Keynes Dons: 0 humiliated in the FA Cup, the League has just managed to get a measly point in two games against mediocre teams Swansea and Sunderland. United is on the ground.
Perfect conditions for the conversion experts Louis van Gaal. There is now probably no one who is still new coach in the way when he announces, fully assemble the new team. The only question is: Will they at Old Trafford have the patience?
Elsewhere they have been so rewarded. In Alkmaar, where van Gaal the Ehrendivisionär AZ made within two years to master. In Munich, where van Gaal veterans threw out the talents of Thomas Müller and Holger Badstuber made to master and internationals Bastian Schweinsteiger had to settle down in midfield – and where he ultimately failed only on himself and his exaggerated self-image. She still raving Sabener road to the skilled artisan van Gaal – if only man would not have been.
The task in Manchester, which the 63-year-old has made, is undoubtedly even more than in Munich. Sunk so low as United currently the FC Bayern was not even in his worst days under coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The English super-club, the largest in the world after Real Madrid, gets four hits from a two-class deep gambling club. Milton Keynes is an English planned city, which previously could only take claim to have the longest mall in the world. Now the amateur players have their place in English football history securely. And for the last United fan is now clear: It can not go on.
The team looks after the era Alex Ferguson and the unfortunate interlude under coach David Moyes as sucked, stripped of his strength, his creativity, his self-consciousness, half-baked in the squad compilation. The old warriors, the years under Ferguson held together the store are no longer there: Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra. All have finished their careers or leave the club.
Moyes was probably a victim of this mental bloodletting by the departure of continuously operating power plant Alex Ferguson. Ferguson has molded this team, he was the team for so many years. Since he is gone, the team of Manchester United is like a shell.
Remodeling may “take a whole year”
“For the fans, it may be difficult after such a start to the season, to believe in my philosophy,” van Gaal said after the Cup disaster on Tuesday, but they currently remains no other choice. Van Gaal makes clear in any event, what is his job: “I’m here to build a new team, and not build one within a month.” It would rather “take a whole year”.
Through its obligations as a Dutch Bond coach at the World Cup in Brazil van Gaal is late entered the preseason. Where the competition has already largely completed their cadres planning, prevails at United in the final days of the transfer window now hectic bustle. The 75-million-euro deal, Argentina’s Angel Di Maria from Madrid Star wegzulotsen is, therefore, not be the last van Gaal Shopping.
When his commitment was announced in May as United manager, was quick of an imaginary “Shopping List” speech, on the Toni Kroos on Arjen Robben and Thomas Müller about every other Bayern players showed up. After that long, perhaps too long, there was silence in the transfer efforts of the club. What now takes revenge.
There are now other names are associated with United: The Chilean Arturo Vidal, Juventus under contract should be signed in the next few days, van Gaal’s compatriots Nigel de Jong (AC Milan) and Daley Blind of Ajax Amsterdam are also follow the call of their former national coach. Hard to imagine that van Gaal has not already performed during the impending talks with the two World Championships. All the more surprising that the transfers still hang in the balance.
Di Maria, Vidal, Blind, de Jong, Rooney, van Persie, to the England international Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw as well as the newly signed Argentine Marcos Rojo – it does not take van Gaal actually order from such personnel in the course one year to form a top team. But it sure does not hurt.
