{"id":3876,"date":"2014-05-03T02:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2014-05-03T02:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T02:04:48","slug":"van-gaal-keen-to-take-united-job-wants-new-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/van-gaal-keen-to-take-united-job-wants-new-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gaal Keen To Take United Job… Wants New Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dutch coach Raymond Verheijen says Louis Van Gaal is the \u201cperfect\u201d boss to rebuild Manchester United \u2013 but he will want \u00a3200 million to spend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Verheijen worked with compatriot Van Gaal\u00a0in the Holland youth set-up and has been a long-term critic of United’d decision\u00a0to replace Sir Alex Ferguson with David Moyes.<\/p>\n

Now Verheijen claims that van Gaal will need a big cheque-book to overhaul Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

\u201cVan Gaal is extremely keen to take a job in the Premier League,\u201d Verheijen said<\/p>\n

\u201cVan Gaal is a team builder from scratch and like a teacher. I think he would be perfect for Manchester United.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact there could be as much as \u00a3200m to spend on new players is a huge attraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf most of that money had already been spent in the last year then I think it would have been less interesting to take this job.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he might have to deal with players he might not have bought himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verheijen, now a consultant with the World Football Academy, knows the British game well having worked alongside the late Gary Speed for Wales.<\/p>\n

He thinks United\u2019s hierarchy were daft to have recruited Moyes from Everton last May.<\/p>\n

Verheijen added: \u201cYou really wonder if the people who are responsible at Man United are actually doing their homework.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it is so much the problem and responsibility of David Moyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if the people at United had done their homework they would never have appointed David Moyes, they would have appointed someone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are managing Man United you need different tactical qualities to when you are an underdog like Everton.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to do with tactical flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verheijen, who has nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter, claims to have spotted United\u2019s flaws under Moyes in their very first Premier League game.<\/p>\n

He insisted: \u201cI questioned the appointment last May and in the next few months made several predictions about what I was expecting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey won their first league game 4-1 at Swansea and everyone was happy. But during that game I questioned the tactics of Man United. The tactical problems were already clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwansea were playing 4-3-3 with three midfielders and Man United were 4-4-2 with a flat midfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe holding midfielder of Swansea was totally free.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis problem reappeared at several times this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a reason why Man United had a better away record than home record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you play\u00a0away you can almost play like Everton, sit back a little bit and counter-attack because the home team will give away more space.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at home you have to break down the defensive wall of the opponent and have tactical flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dutch coach Raymond Verheijen says Louis Van Gaal is the \u201cperfect\u201d boss to rebuild Manchester United \u2013 but he will want \u00a3200 million to spend. Verheijen worked with compatriot Van Gaal\u00a0in the Holland youth set-up and has been a long-term critic of United’d decision\u00a0to replace Sir Alex Ferguson with David Moyes. Now Verheijen claims that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}