Manchester United fans are the best: Van Gaal

Both sides will be looking to have a much better 2016 after a disastrous end to 2015, and it starts for them this weekend with both sides needing the crucial points to start of the year on a positive note.

“My understanding was that I was going to a club which always looked after their managers, even when they were in trouble and it wasn’t going well, you got your time to sort things out”, Moyes said.

While United have only scored 10 times in their last 14 games in all competitions, Mexico global Hernandez has delivered 17 goals in his last 14 outings for Bayer Leverkusen.

“The results there have been a bit indifferent in the last few weeks but I thought they were excellent against Chelsea”, Curtis said.

But with Swansea struggling with their form in recent matches, van Gaal is confident that United are in with a chance. “Now I have given confidence to the players to play there”.

On the subject of whether he would take the Old Trafford managerial job again, he added: “Of course I would”. When the players can give such a performance with a lot of pressure, there is not any reason to resign for me.

“Then we are out of the Champions League and that gives us a big blow, and we are still in that period, so when you don’t assess December, it was a very good year”. It is the story of Hernandez for example.

“Too many strikers of high quality for the same position is too much pressure”. Now I have given confidence to the players to play there.

The 64-year-old Dutchman admitted that United are under pressure to re-ignite their tittle challenge, but asserted that the players will have to live up to the challenge.

This is not my first club.

United are ready to sign a striker in this month’s transfer window, with Everton’s Romelu Lukaku and Sadio Mane of Southampton on their radar.

Van Gaal praised the response of the fans to their predicament, while acknowledging his team can ill afford any further setbacks.

We have fulfilled the wish and our aim in the first season that ended halfway through 2015.

Up front, Anthony Martial remains the player you would back most if a chance falls. You can not always explain that. “The way we’ve played this season, we’re more or less always the dominant team”.

“We need also the luck of a striker”.

Nicholas also played up the importance of Ryan Giggs and his role within the coaching staff, as he believes that the Welshman’s furious reaction after the loss to Stoke City as he stormed off the pitch may well have fired up some of the attacking players in the squad.