Louis van Gaal backs his captain but says he would be prepared to rest him,and others, as he once did with the Ajax talisman Jari LitmanenIn fairness to Louis van Gaal, and amid all the scrutiny of his team’s performances and Wayne Rooney’s diminishing output,he was not being wildly disrespectful to Sir Alex Ferguson when he pointed out that the club had endured difficult periods in the past when Old Trafford had not “always been the immense Theatre of Dreams”.
Van Gaal might not acquire realised it but he was speaking 10 years to the day that the details were leaked about what Roy Keane actually said in the notorious MUTV interview that had to be spiked because of its content. Keane never played for the club again but his dissatisfaction with the team was far from unique given the level of debate around the team’s tactics at the time.
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Source: theguardian.com