When you were at Barcelona, you said you need an intelligent group who can adapt. Is there any concern that this group will not be able to adapt to your demands? Van Gaal : “Every club where I have been, I have struggled for the first three months. After that, they 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. “Its not so easy. And also the way I train and coach is in the brains and not the legs. “You have seen my exercises with all the tactical arguments and not without the tactical arguments. I am not for running [for its own sake] and I am for running with the ball, but they like that [laughs] of course. “But the most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when they do, the football player is not playing intuitively. “A lot of players are playing intuitively and I want them to think and know why they do something. “Thats a process that is difficult at first and in the first three months. It takes time. “When we survive the first three months, it will be the same as for me at Bayern. “In Bayern, after the first three months, we were sixth or seventh and we were third in the Champions League group. “We had to win at Juventus and we won that game and that was the turning point.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:15:01 +0000
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