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Confidence smashed

When I saw the headline I assumed it was the words of some pundit on your defeat yesterday.I never for a second thought it would be your own manager.

"When you have preparation, win everything, then lose your first match, it cannot be worse.
"We have built up a lot of confidence. It will be smashed because of this."

Seems like a ridiculous thing for a manager to say and it certainly can't instill confidence back in to his players.

posted on 17/8/14

comment by RED666👺 (U6562)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
Say

Odd as the managers job is to give the players confidence. So you are saying LVG spent all summer giving them confidence and building them up for nothing?
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Odd your make that assumption, because i never said that, the pundits, press and fans were bigging them up, LVG made no such statement!!!!! So where did you get that from???
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LVG doesn't have to say it. It's the job of the manager to instill confidence everyday on the training pitch.
You made an absolutely ridiculous statement to try and gloss over an appalling statement from your manager. He was wrong to say it. He doesn't have to say he is trying to give them confidence that is a given from every manager at every level.

posted on 17/8/14

comment by If anyone can, Emre Can... (U3979)
posted 59 minutes ago
Imagine if Moyes had said that
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They'd have hired the Red Arrows

comment by Cloggy (U1250)

posted on 17/8/14

comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
He struggles with English, I won't read too much into it. Listening to him talk you can actually see he is struggling to come up with some words.
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This

I am Dutch, live in Dublin, LVG's English is poor. I have noticed a few times he doesnt understand the question fully or thinks the journo means something else, and his choice of words is often a bit weird, and not really what he actually means to say.

posted on 17/8/14

He wasn't speaking in English. The papers are quoting from an interview to a Dutch radio station.

Ooooooops what excuses now boys?

posted on 17/8/14

posted on 17/8/14

Say your name

Keep digging son keep digging

posted on 17/8/14

What do you mean digging? You have all given an excuse as to why Van Gaal couldn't possibly have made some extremely odd comments and he has dispelled the myths. I believe it is you lot who are digging, perhaps to bury your head in sand.

posted on 18/8/14

comment by RED666👺 (U6562)
posted 4 hours, 1 minute ago
Say your name

Keep digging son keep digging
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What a bizarre comment. Clearly English isn't your first language either. As Bats says you've been made to look a mug.

posted on 18/8/14

Bats

What do you mean digging? You have all given an excuse as to why Van Gaal couldn't possibly have made some extremely odd comments
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I've all ready said you can understand why he made such a comment in my first post.

Do keep up dear boy and get yourself a shovel!!!

posted on 24/8/14

And now he says you can't win the title.

Great man management that is.

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