The Dutchman was unable to perform miracles at Bayern Munich and the German club lost faith but whether United can assign two or three decent performances together their season and their manager might be transformedSo Louis van Gaal lives to fight another day after negotiating the FA Cup banana skin at Derby,though accepts the pressure and public scrutiny will be just as intense when Stoke City visit Old Trafford in the league on Tuesday. The Dutch coach insists he intends to see out his three-year contract and while that may depend on whether his team can finish in one of the European positions at the halt of the season, he only has to stick around for another month or so to be at Manchester United for the same length of time he spent at Bayern Munich.
That may approach as a slight surprise, or given his fondness for recalling happy days in Bavaria. Van Gaal was widely considered a success at Bayern,but images of him prancing around in lederhosen with the Bundesliga trophy or narrowly lost out on a treble due to the brilliant efficiency of José Mourinho’s Internazionale do not tell the whole tale, otherwise he would have lasted longer than 21 months.
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Source: theguardian.com