Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has revealed that his ambition at Old Trafford is to make Manchester United the best team in the world.
United already has the most expensive transfer in Britain with Angel Di Maria, and his signing this week of former Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes as United’s number two keeper speaks of the Dutchman’s ambitions as he tries to bring the best players he can find to England’s Northwest.
Currently the United boss is trying to sign Borussia Dortmund centre-back Mats Hummels to help shore up the United back-line.
Speaking of his plans the 63-year-old told the Daily Mirror: “My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team of the world.”
Currently United are unbeaten in their last 11-games and with only one first team player out with injury (Ashley Young) LVG hopes he can keep the run alive, and when asked if it would be possible he said: “I hope so because, now the players are coming back, I have a full selection of players within three weeks I think.
“Normally, we should then play better because a lot of players who were also fixed in my line-up – for example, Daley Blind and Angel Di Maria – are now coming back.
“Marcos Rojo, for example, was also fixed in my line-up. I didn’t have the chance to build up with the same players. I hope that I can do that now, but you never know.
“No one club in the Premier League shall win every game, but maybe Manchester United can.
That’s always our goal, but it also the goal of Jose Mourinho and also the goal of other managers – [Manuel] Pellegrini or [Ronald] Koeman or [Arsene] Wenger for example.”
Manchester United’s Dutch international striker was rested for the Cup game against Yeovil and should feature in Sundays clash with third place Southampton, and when asked if RVP would play, van Gaal replied: “You have to wait and see if he’s in my line-up or on my bench. I do know, but I don’t tell. He is always in my line-up, until now. You have to wait and see.”
The Dutchman also admitted he had fitness concerns about Luke Shaw and his recurring injury problems.
“You are right because I have put to him the same question as you did,” said Van Gaal.
“It’s a very interesting question but I don’t speak about our conversations with players, I’m sorry.
“It is dependable of the manager, if the manager still has trust in the player – it’s always like that.”
“We only have one player injured,” said Van Gaal. “Can you believe it? Only one. I have to select, for the first time in my career at Manchester United, the 11 and the 18 players.
“Angel Di Maria has only played 20 minutes because of the match rhythm I gave him. I have said I only have one injured player, but I don’t have 100 per cent match-fit players. That’s a different thing.
“But of course, Di Maria is further than Daley Blind or Marcos Rojo. But, okay, I have to select the best team and watch the qualities of Southampton, how I can reduce that quality by my line-up and also by our game-plan.”
