Van Gaal: I’m proud to be manager of these players

She quickly realised her error and deleted the post, but we reckon it’s probably best she doesn’t look at social media for a while. But these players are mostly ungettable.

“With Ronaldo, let’s wait and hope”.

The 19-year-old became the most expensive teenager in the history of football when he joined the Red Devils from AS Monaco.

But against Watford he was asked to play more centrally – nearly as a split forward alongside Memphis Depay – and he showed he’s more than just raw talent.

The former United favourite left the club for Real Madrid in 2009, for a then-record fee of £80 million but suggestions have persisted that he would be open to returning to Old Trafford.

United were unable to get a stand-in, but according to the Sunday Mirror, Rodriguez is on Van Gaal’s wishlist.

Louis van Gaal was delighted with the performances of Memphis Depay and Jesse Lingard as makeshift attackers for Manchester United in their 2-1 Premier League win over Watford.

They kept up their decent run of results thanks to a last-minute own goal from Troy Deeney, who had looked to have stolen a point for Watford with a penalty just a couple of minutes earlier.

Such late drama used to be the norm for the 20-time English champions, but such has its scarcity been in recent times that even Louis van Gaal did not predict quite a finish. “Our positional game was not so good and that was disappointing”.

‘I think the greatest goal I’ve ever scored is the one against Liverpool, ‘ Martial added.

United created another good opportunity at the start of the second half.

He was backed by boss Quique Flores who said: “For us he is like the soul of the team”. It was an injection, the equaliser. I am very proud I am the manager of that team.

“I was amazed at the spirit in our team”, van Gaal said. We have a lot of injuries.

Luke Shaw continues to recover from a broken leg, with Michael Carrick and Antonio Valencia joining a lengthy list of concerns.

“Jones has a twisted ankle and Herrera maybe a hamstring injury”.

“My first impression is that they are not too heavy but the problem is that we have to play Wednesday already. Rooney is ill (but) I do expect that he will play on Wednesday”.

“I knew we had a balanced selection in our squad and every position was double occupied, but it is only that now the striker’s position was not occupied because Rooney, Martial and then on the last day [James] Wilson was injured”.