Carrick and van Gaal target turnaround against Chelsea
“The circumstances now play a bigger role and will in the next game also”.
“It’s very tough to do that”.
Pre-match media reports suggested Van Gaal was one defeat away from the sack and the 64-year-old Dutchman saw his team’s run of games without a win extended to seven at a windswept Britannia Stadium. There are no artificial ways to solve that. “We need a victory and that is very important”. “But now we only can recover, we cannot change”.
Is van Gaal to blame alone?
“Van Gaal has handled the situation badly”, he said.
“It’s more hard, people are looking at me, I have to deal with that, the players have to deal with that”.
“You can not say in Manchester it is much more different”.
“We didn’t play our football because of the pressure and we would not cope with the circumstances either as a group or individual players, he said”.
“The decision on my future is another situation, we have lost the fourth game so you have to wait and see”. “More important is that my players shall manage that because they have to perform”.
“That is what is happening now and you have to cope with it”.
“Everywhere he has gone during his career he has won trophies and if you speak to the majority of Manchester United fans, they just want to get back to the glory days where they are in the hunt for the major trophies”.
After the Stoke game, Van Gaal appeared to accuse his players of bowing to the pressure surrounding the club.
The Spain global returned to scoring form with a double as Guus Hiddink’s second spell at Stamford Bridge began with a 2-2 home draw with Watford on Boxing Day.
A clamour has begun for Wales and Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs to replace under-fire Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager.
Mourinho was initially linked with the United job when Ferguson retired in 2013, and Bosnich believes it was a mistake not appointing him then and it would be another mistake not appointing him now.
Van Gaal was asked about the incident after the Stoke defeat, and whether he was upset by questions about his job security.
Whether it proves to be the final nail in the coffin for Van Gaal himself remains to be seen.
The Dutchman admitted that he could not be certain of the United board’s support and that he could choose to leave Old Trafford of his own accord..