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Louis van Gaal wants to spoil Leicester party

United are in danger of missing out on the pre-season target of Champions League qualification, kicking off on Sunday five points off a top-four place.

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“They shall be champions a week later”.

Van Gaal was written off midway through the second season of his tenure, but his youthful recruits have reinvigorated United and his prospects.

“You have to see the situation where the club is”.

“The question for us is to qualify [for the Champions League]”. Fourth position is okay, third position then we have reached our aim.

The Red Devils are in the FA Cup final with a good chance to win it, but that alone will not be enough for the Dutchman to keep his job. ‘There are a lot of positives but now we are one position less than past year and that position is very important for the club, the most important position.

Van Gaal rather embarrassingly picked out David De Gea as a player who has not won a title with United, even though he was one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s Premier League champions in 2013.

“We were one of the latest clubs in three competitions, and in spite of all the injuries we are still there”.

“If we play like that I think we’ll be in the final”. We have played at a certain level and we played fantastic matches, but we have also played lousy matches. When I was mentioned as the coach, it was also about that.

“I don’t like to talk about players who haven’t played, I prefer to talk about the ones who have”, he said. So it’s a big difference.

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Either way, Young said that the music was important in getting the players ready for the game because “music can be uplifting and motivate you”. “I’m the manager of Manchester United”.Van Gaal, meanwhile, has downplayed a statistic that shows Rashford’s goalscoring rate is better than Cristiano Ronaldo’s was at the same early stage of his United career, back in 2003.

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