Giggs on Van Gaal's training methods

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...-alex-ferguson

He has quite a way with words.

Kind of hope he fires giggs tbh.

Originally Posted by armchair

Kind of hope he fires giggs tbh.

What a strange thing to say.

Originally Posted by teflon_terry

What a strange thing to say.

Let him be tested outside of Manchester. People are calling for him to be the next manager after Van Gaal just like they were calling for Robbo and Keane. £#%&! that. He should learn from Van Gaal then leave and then we can have an opinion rather than this madness that somehow he'll automatically be a good manager.

Originally Posted by armchair

Let him be tested outside of Manchester. People are calling for him to be the next manager after Van Gaal just like they were calling for Robbo and Keane. £#%&! that. He should learn from Van Gaal then leave and then we can have an opinion rather than this madness that somehow he'll automatically be a good manager.

He can go somewhere else when Klopp succeeds LvG. Win-win

He's clearly impressing and making an impact after just a week.

'give him time'

Amazing that it's apparently so rare in English football for pre-season fitness exercises to actually incorporate a football in some way, think I saw it called "disguised running" in another article. Or maybe it's just United it's been rare at?

is he teaching them to use their "other" foot....the number of so called professional footballers that kick a ball worse than my granny with their standing foot is unbelievable :shakehead:

Originally Posted by denis lawless

is he teaching them to use their "other" foot....the number of so called professional footballers that kick a ball worse than my granny with their standing foot is unbelievable :shakehead:

Too right. The number of professional footballers that can't use both feet equally is beyond me. It's all they do everyday ffs.

Originally Posted by My Name is Keith

Too right. The number of professional footballers that can't use both feet equally is beyond me. It's all they do everyday ffs.

doesn't have to be equally......just competently.....£#%&! me, I remember giggs himself hoofing a right footer over the bar in front of an open goal v arsenal in a cup tie once....we were 0-1 down at the time.....and we lost the match....he'd have done no worse if he'd whacked it with his #@&%! :angry:

Quite some memory you've got there, Denis

Originally Posted by RedMenace

Amazing that it's apparently so rare in English football for pre-season fitness exercises to actually incorporate a football in some way, think I saw it called "disguised running" in another article. Or maybe it's just United it's been rare at?

Unfortunately it's a classic British thing to do: get the lads back from holiday and absolutely thrash the %@#$&!s off them. We're great at producing athletes in this country; strong, quick players. I think it's something within English football that we seem to value the ability to just charge around the pitch like nutters, rather than the ability to make the opposition charge around like nutters by tactical pressure and possession.

Originally Posted by denis lawless

doesn't have to be equally......just competently.....£#%&! me, I remember giggs himself hoofing a right footer over the bar in front 8of an open goal v arsenal in a cup tie once....we were 0-1 down at the time.....and we lost the match....he'd have done no worse if he'd whacked it with his #@&%! :angry:

Early 2003?

I remember that the next issue of RI had a photo of Giggs, a cow's arse, and a banjo.

No British Bulldog and daily Bleep tests until Until someone (Ando) gets hospitalised anymore. no Jags Montages with the Gladiator soundtrack anymore either.

Originally Posted by denis lawless

doesn't have to be equally......just competently.....£#%&! me, I remember giggs himself hoofing a right footer over the bar in front of an open goal v arsenal in a cup tie once....we were 0-1 down at the time.....and we lost the match....he'd have done no worse if he'd whacked it with his c**k :angry:

£#%&!ing unbelievable miss, that - and right at the height of our rivalry with them poncey @#%&!s

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Unfortunately it's a classic British thing to do: get the lads back from holiday and absolutely thrash the balls off them. We're great at producing athletes in this country; strong, quick players. I think it's something within English football that we seem to value the ability to just charge around the pitch like nutters, rather than the ability to make the opposition charge around like nutters by tactical pressure and possession.

yes, agree but we do produce fine footballers like Jonesy

Was in the stretty for that Arsenal miss in 2003.....Absolutely fuming!

Up there with Ruud's penalty miss against the @#%&!s and then watching them lap it up.

@#%&!s!

Originally Posted by Serenity Now

Quite some memory you've got there, Denis

tbh we haven't had a manager take training for at least 5 years

I think now the people who would scoff at the notion that Fergie wasn't a full tactician or a coach get a better idea of what that meant. Big change for the players and its possibly the first time we've had such a thoroughly tactically attentive manager and coaching staff.

Love hearing Giggsy sound like he's getting an education. We've needed this so badly, having struggled to develop players in recent years.