A run of eight winless matches was finally ended following the club’s 2-1 victory over Swansea City last weekend, as United now prepare for Saturday’s FA Cup clash against Sheffield United.
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“I have stimulated them to think about football”.
“I wanted that also and I think that it’s very good he wants to do that, and I don’t think it will have an impact on his club”.
United have fallen to fifth in the league standings and sit four points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, while they are nine behind leaders Arsenal. I said it would be very hard to play matches in Dortmund and unfortunately I was right.
United will have to build from their win against Swansea, but they will have to do so without defender Phil Jones, who joins Luke Shaw, Antonio Valencia and Marcos Rojo on the sideline.
The Dutchman, writing in his programme notes ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup third round tie against Sheffield United, concedes January is not the best time to buy, but he is not ruling out bringing in new faces this month either. For me it’s interesting how I take care of Manchester United in my contract and I still have one year to go after this season.
Van Gaal sounded extremely sure of himself today in those comments.
“The minute that we don’t work harder than the other team, we’ll not be Manchester United”, Sir Alex Ferguson used to tell his players.
Guardiola is viewed as one of the world’s finest football coaches.
The recent reports are stating that Louis van Gaal may be prepared to sell Belgian superstar midfielder Marouane Fellaini. “Michael is an easy name for me”, he said, eliciting laughter from the journalists assembled.
Sheffield United have proven themselves to be a tricky cup opponent in the last few seasons and made it to the semi-finals of the FA Cup and the League Cup in the last two years respectively.
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Aside from the loan recalls of the likes of Will Keane and Adnan Januzaj, United haven’t been active as of yet, and judging by LVG’s reaction to the tenuous rumours, it may well comprise the bulk of the club’s January activity.
