Sunday, August 9, 2015

Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United show promise but still have work to do | Paul Wilson

There were signs of promise in their Premier League opener but Van Gaal’s team showed against Tottenham that they are far from the finished product

Louis van Gaal turned 64 on the first day of the Premier League season, and the answer to the Paul McCartney question is yes. Manchester United still need him all right.

Someone is going to have to make sense of the wealth of players United have at their disposal for a start, so it may as well be the manager who signed most of them. “I firmly believe in the refreshment of teams,” Van Gaal explained beforehand, meaning new faces each summer, not orange segments at half-time. “You need to challenge the lineup. When I arrived at Old Trafford it was not like that, but now we have all the positions double-occupied we have better balance in the team.”

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