Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur)
The unsettled Belgium international has made it perfectly clear that he has no intention whatsoever of remaining at White Hart Lane this summer if the north London club do indeed, as now seems more than likely, fail to finish the season in the top four of the Premier League, and so do not make it into the Uefa Champions League in the process.
And with Van Gaal familiar with the centre back from his time spent at Ajax, when the Belgium was in the youth team, and with United certain to be in need of at least one new central defender at Old Trafford next season with both Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand set to quit the club this summer, then it would be no surprise at all were the Dutchman to lure the 27-year-old to the north west for next season.