Van Gaal: De Gea is different

Manchester United open the new English Premier League season at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday looking for signs they are ready to mount a sustained assault on Chelsea’s title.

Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal appeared to forgive the Spanish stopper after his costly mistake against Paris Saint-Germain.

“No, I don’t think so”, Van Gaal said when asked if Real Madrid had matched their valuation of De Gea.

Van Gaal added: “We have problems with De Gea”.

‘A player is also a human being.

Midfielder Schweinsteiger, who was a £14.5m summer signing from Bayern Munich, has not convinced Van Gaal he is fully fit to make his Premier League debut.

Van Gaal confirmed Marcos Rojo and Bastian Schweinsteiger will miss Saturday’s game as they lack match fitness.

“He tries and does (his) utmost best, but it’s a hard situation. We need to assess them in the last training session today”.

“I want to give special thanks to all the Directors and Management of Manchester United as well as to every member of the staff and colleagues as they gave me all their support”.

Asked if that meant Romero would start, the manager said: “You will have to wait and see”.

Off the bat with the addition of Di Maria, a two striker formation is now possible with Di Maria as a CAM, it’s going to be the best strikerforce in the world by far.

The ex-Watford wideman was one of the success stories of Louis van Gaal’s first season in charge, with Young’s versatility seeing him feature in both wide positions and at wing-back. However, it is said to be €1.5million short of his wish. In two of those three years he was nominated by the fans as the best player at the club.

Madrid themselves parted company with their former number one keeper this summer, 34-year-old Iker Casillas who spent 16 years at the club and made over 500 appearances, was sold to Porto.

“Van Gaal did arrange a behind-closed doors match to keep his players’ fitness ticking over this week and Romero may have done enough in that to earn the nod over Sam Johnstone”.

Hugo Lloris returned to action as Spurs wrapped up their pre-season campaign with a 2-0 win over AC Milan on Wednesday night, but the Frenchman is unlikely to start in goal.

“Maybe Liverpool tried to find their Harry Kane but we have Harry Kane“, he said.