United are five or six years behind the Premier League giants, and the problems revealed by Van Gaal are still Lonnick's problems

On 23 May 2016, United officially announced Louis van Gaal's dismissal. In a subsequent interview, Van Gaal told the Daily Mail that the Manchester United dynasty has long been a thing of the past and that Manchester United are now used to playing in the Europa League. Time has always been a straight line, and the past and the future can never be clearly separated. The stubborn dutch old man's words are still in his ears, and the words spoken by the dutch old man at that time still seem to be Lonnick's urgent problem to solve.

History will tell us about the mistakes we've made in the past, the problems of the present will warn the future, the sky over Manchester will always start dark at 17:00, and a team eager to win in all competitions will surely maintain a huge squad. However, there are always some laws of his existence, but we are not willing to accept it. The manchester evening newspaper reporter recalled van Gaal's remarks during his time at manchester United, comparing the current situation of Lonnick's current coaching, it is so similar that Manchester United seems to have been five or six years behind other giants.

A large lineup will trigger locker room discord

On 19 May 2014, United officially announced Louis van Gaal as United's manager. In his autobiography Louis van Gaal, about the experience of taking over the manager of Manchester United, Van Gaal expressed his surprise: Manchester United's first team has 35 players, how can they form such a huge team? That means at least 15 players won't be able to sit on the bench, which would cause discord in the dressing room.

So we saw that Louis van Gaal was very strong in dealing with United's contract issues. Manchester United fans liked Van Persie, Little Pea, Raphael, Evans, Nani and others bid farewell to Old Trafford. This experience has also been called by Manchester United fans as an experience in which the dressing room culture began to lack.

However, we leave aside whether Louis van Gaal handled it correctly or not, but Louis van Gaal did leave a relatively streamlined squad for United. Let's look back at United's current first-team squad, leaving too many players who can't play or players that the manager won't use, and these players have caused discord in the Manchester United dressing room in the winter window this year. Martial asked for a transfer, Henderson wanted to leave, Van de Beek's future was uncertain, and Pogba and Jesse Lingard were in a mystery.

In the current year of Jose Mourinho's management, Manchester United has maintained a first-team squad of more than 32 people, and although Manchester United has rented 13 players this season, Manchester United's first team is still very large. Selling redundancy is not an excuse, nor is the high salary of the players an excuse, manchester United's determination to cut the mess without the van Gaal era is the problem.

The level of training of the players is still insufficient

"Louis van Gaal" talks about another problem of Manchester United: lack of training. Van Gaal said this: suddenly want two training a day, Manchester United's Carrington base has no lighting system, by 16:00 pm the sky is dark, so the requirements to increase the lighting system, and strengthen the intensity of training, but these players are not used to it, and often injured.

If you think about what Lonnick has said in his post-match press conferences over the past few games, you'll see how similar it is. Lonnick has always stressed that United players lack physical fitness, thus increasing training time. But what then? The media broke the news that Manchester United players were very unaccustomed to driving home in the dark, and also expressed their dissatisfaction.

Well, in fact, since the van Gaal era, the problem of insufficient training time for Manchester United players has begun to be exposed. In the past few days, we have seen players injured in training, Ronnick could not even arrange the 9-man substitute list in the game against Aston Villa, and Players such as Maguire, Lindelof, Rashford and other players frequently suffered from muscle injuries, which may be related to the sudden increase in training intensity.

United are already five or six years behind

Van Gaal mentioned that his tactics require very strong physical fitness, need to run frequently, and are not the tactics that Ronnick needs. In this respect, United have been five or six years behind in terms of tactical level and physical condition. So, even if Manchester United brings in Ronaldo, Sancho and Varane? Manchester United's internal management and internal training system itself are outdated, and the physical quality of Manchester United players is also outdated.

After Ronaldo returned to Manchester United, he was shocked by the low training standards of Manchester United now, which may not be an empty phrase. What United need now may be more training, more running, to catch up with the Premier League giants. Van Gaal is right that United should now be a catch-up, not a challenger.