3) Louis van Gaal has demanded time, and not promised immediate results…
“Every club where I have been, I have struggled for the first three months,” van Gaal stated.
“After that, the players know what I want, how I am as a human being and also a manager – because I am very direct.
“I say things as they are, so you have to adapt to that way of coaching. It’s not so easy.
“When we survive the first three months, it will be the same as it was for me at Bayern. In Munich, after the first three months, we were sixth or seventh in the Bundesliga and we were third in our Champions League group.”
As the saying goes, you can’t win the Premier League before Christmas, but you can lose it. It looks like the Dutchman’s getting his excuses in early.
