Louis van Gaal's first press conference as Manchester United manager — Transcript

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1. 0:00yeah first of all I want to thank Bobby
2. 0:02Charon sir Bobby Charon because uh it's
3. 0:06a great
4. 0:07honor to uh come in this
5. 0:10stadium and to be
6. 0:13guided by Sir Bobby Charon my first
7. 0:16steps okay I my first steps were with
8. 0:20Bayern M munen and Barcelona I know that
9. 0:24but as a trainer coach of Manchester
10. 0:26United these were my first steps and I
11. 0:29was
12. 0:30I was very proud to do that with sir
13. 0:33Bobby
14. 0:34Charon I uh have the age to see him
15. 0:39playing so uh I know what he means for
16. 0:44Manchester United but also for the
17. 0:46English football and it was a great
18. 0:49honor to do that with him thank you okay
19. 0:52we will open questions to the floor if
20. 0:54you put your hand up we'll bring a mic
21. 0:56to you if you could just introduce who
22. 0:57you are say your name and your
23. 0:59organization we are conducting the press
24. 1:01conference in English today um lean if
25. 1:04you
26. 1:06could hi Neil kusters from the Sun uh
27. 1:09welcome Louie uh what do you how big an
28. 1:11impact do you hope to make in your very
29. 1:13first season with Manchester
30. 1:15United I do my out outmost
31. 1:19best and uh that's what I can give I
32. 1:24cannot give
33. 1:26uh uh
34. 1:28predictions because you never
35. 1:30no it's the the biggest Club of the
36. 1:34world within two days uh I know already
37. 1:39uh how important Manchester United is
38. 1:42but how important also the sponsors
39. 1:45are and uh I have to work I have to
40. 1:48prepare a
41. 1:50team and I have to adapt uh to this back
42. 1:55Club it shall not be easy but I do uh my
43. 1:59outmost best and when you see uh my
44. 2:03career you can see uh what I have won
45. 2:07and that uh I can say and the future
46. 2:11shall
47. 2:13uh show if I can do that
48. 2:18again dominis talk sport Louie you've
49. 2:21joined Manchester United you talk about
50. 2:23your pride and that this is the number
51. 2:25one club in the world so you feel it's
52. 2:27bigger than Bayern than Barca than even
53. 2:30managing the Dutch national side and if
54. 2:32that is the case what do you expect to
55. 2:34achieve in your time
56. 2:36here
57. 2:38uh did is the biggest club uh
58. 2:43because of uh World known wide but in
59. 2:49sport you are never the biggest Club
60. 2:54because every season you have to prove
61. 2:56and last season you were
62. 2:58seventh so then you are not the biggest
63. 3:01Club in sportive way but well known over
64. 3:06the world when I was in in in uh China
65. 3:11or now in Brazil people are talking
66. 3:14about Manchester United when I was the
67. 3:16coach of the Dutch team so that's the
68. 3:20difference so it's a lot of expectation
69. 3:24also
70. 3:26but it's also a great challenge because
71. 3:29of that
72. 3:30and therefore I have chosen for this
73. 3:32club I work for Barcelona in my opinion
74. 3:37number one in Spain I have coached Ajax
75. 3:41Amsterdam number one in the Netherlands
76. 3:44and I have coached Bay mson number one
77. 3:47in Germany and now I I am in Manchester
78. 3:53United number one in England and uh I
79. 3:57hope I shall fulfill the the expectation
80. 4:00but shall be difficult video Conor from
81. 4:03Sky Sports News Lou you've made two
82. 4:05signings already this summer how many
83. 4:06more signings do you feel you need to
84. 4:08bring in in order to improve this
85. 4:11squad yeah my my uh method is always uh
86. 4:16the same I want to look at the player
87. 4:20now at the players present and of course
88. 4:24I know the players how they play but I
89. 4:28uh don't know the players
90. 4:30who I have trained and coached so first
91. 4:34I want to see uh surely the first three
92. 4:38four weeks what they can do and then
93. 4:41maybe I shall uh buy other
94. 4:44players and the players uh that we have
95. 4:48bought now Shaw and uh Herrera was
96. 4:52already on the
97. 4:53list uh so I give my approval because I
98. 4:57like
99. 4:58them but first I want to see uh the
100. 5:02players performing uh my uh
101. 5:06philosophy Louie uh David McDonald from
102. 5:09The Daily Mirror you mentioned then you
103. 5:10don't do predictions and you said it
104. 5:12would be difficult uh but how realistic
105. 5:14is it for United fans to feel that they
106. 5:15can be challenging for the title on you
107. 5:17this season or do they have to be a bit
108. 5:19more realistic going from Seventh Place
109. 5:21that's that's always the question and
110. 5:23that's what I have explained
111. 5:25already uh hello Simon Crabtree from
112. 5:28Premier League Productions meet here um
113. 5:30do you um have you asked for do you you
114. 5:32need any assurances of how long that you
115. 5:35might need to to get things back to
116. 5:37winning ways no because
117. 5:41uh the owners and the CEO have a lot of
118. 5:45confidence in me because of that
119. 5:48uh they have come to me and I explained
120. 5:53my philosophy and uh they were excited
121. 5:56and because of that I'm here and uh
122. 6:00we have to wait and see if I can fulfill
123. 6:03this expectation of uh these people but
124. 6:07also of the supporters because the
125. 6:09supporters are very the fans are very
126. 6:11important also I know that
127. 6:14but you cannot predict in in in the
128. 6:17world of football you cannot predict
129. 6:20nobody uh has have predicted that the
130. 6:23Dutch team came so far nobody has
131. 6:25predicted that Germany shall beat uh
132. 6:28Brazil in in their home 17 and of sure
133. 6:32surely not that we beat them
134. 6:3503 so you know that why do you
135. 6:41ask hello Mr this is I am found from
136. 6:46noos um okay hello um when will you take
137. 6:50a decision on the captaincy and is Robin
138. 6:52vessi a possible candidate all the
139. 6:55players are a possible
140. 6:57candidate I have to get know them and
141. 7:01therefore I I use four five six weeks
142. 7:04Dependable if if if I'm out already
143. 7:07after four weeks but it can be two
144. 7:09months also for me uh the captain's role
145. 7:12is very important and uh therefore I
146. 7:16need time and sometimes I didn't have
147. 7:21have the time uh then I have to uh make
148. 7:25quick decisions but quick decisions are
149. 7:27not always good so so uh I use my time
150. 7:31for it because I think a captain of a
151. 7:34team uh from me is very very
152. 7:39important Mr vanal uh Ian Herbert from
153. 7:42The Independent Newspaper at your um
154. 7:45your former clubs Ajax and Barcelona
155. 7:47you've had systems where the same brand
156. 7:50of football is played throughout all
157. 7:51ages and all levels of the club and
158. 7:53that's something you've introduced is
159. 7:54that something you want to introduce to
160. 7:56Manchester United one philosophy
161. 7:58throughout the entire
162. 8:01club uh the owners and also the CEO uh
163. 8:05Ed Woodward has uh
164. 8:08asked uh to give
165. 8:11advice uh but uh the main project is the
166. 8:16first team and the first team is more
167. 8:18short term than than uh the youth
168. 8:21education that's more long ter
169. 8:25so uh more or less uh the first year
170. 8:29maybe two years we have to separate them
171. 8:32uh because now uh I need all my
172. 8:35knowledge to to uh transfer my
173. 8:39philosophy in uh in the in this
174. 8:43selection so so you have to give me time
175. 8:48uh to do that and uh not only you also
176. 8:51the CEO and the
177. 8:53owners good afternoon Stuart maton
178. 8:56Manchester Evening News you obviously
179. 8:58know the importance of the class of 92
180. 9:00to the club and the fans have you
181. 9:03decided yet the futures of Nikki buts
182. 9:05Phil Neville and Paul
183. 9:09Scoles um uh Nikki B but is already
184. 9:13assisting us uh Paul SKS uh we shall
185. 9:17find a a role for him but also for Phil
186. 9:21Neel I I believe uh that's what we want
187. 9:26uh but it has has uh it has to be also
188. 9:30possible and and that we have to look
189. 9:34but we have also to adapt to the
190. 9:36qualities of these persons so it it's
191. 9:39it's not a easy job we have to speak
192. 9:42about that with them personally and uh
193. 9:47that's why we have to wait and see uh
194. 9:50Louie Ian pay from ITV News did you even
195. 9:53consider taking a short holiday between
196. 9:55the World Cup and coming here it's not
197. 9:57allowed no no it is not allowed it of
198. 10:01course it uh was better that uh I did an
199. 10:06half year uh sabatical for example that
200. 10:10I come in January but uh I could not uh
201. 10:15let them go uh when when you have been
202. 10:18asked by the biggest Club of the world
203. 10:21that's a big challenge a big ambition
204. 10:23for me uh I've already told uh the
205. 10:26number one of Spain the number one of uh
206. 10:29Germany the number one of the
207. 10:30Netherlands there
208. 10:31is a force competition in my eyes the
209. 10:35four strongest competitions in this
210. 10:39world there are Dutch journalist is
211. 10:42laughing now because uh he was writing
212. 10:45that the Dutch competition is nothing I
213. 10:47said technically we are the best and we
214. 10:49have proved that in in in Brazil and
215. 10:54uh yeah what was the
216. 10:58question did you not want a
217. 11:00holiday okay the holiday yeah that I
218. 11:04have already uh given an answer to that
219. 11:07because when there is a challenge like
220. 11:10this I never let them
221. 11:13go and this is also an holy day for me I
222. 11:16like the the way uh I I I can
223. 11:20work Lou hello um Andy Swift BBC News um
224. 11:24you have a reputation for being a very
225. 11:26strong character a strong personality um
226. 11:29for the fans and the players can you
227. 11:31give us an idea on how you would
228. 11:32describe your style of
229. 11:35management I'm uh a
230. 11:39democratic uh I don't know uh the word
231. 11:43but uh emphasis
232. 11:46you emphasis emphasis EMP emphasis
233. 11:50emphasis okay empathy empathy empathy
234. 11:54empathetic empathetic empathetic to
235. 11:57human being yeah and uh of course I have
236. 12:00a strong personality but the other
237. 12:04character characteristics are more
238. 12:08important and that's the key of my
239. 12:13personality hi Louie Louie over there
240. 12:16sorry boss
241. 12:18hello Louie over there Jamie Jackson
242. 12:21from the guardian what would be success
243. 12:23for you in your first season as um
244. 12:25Manchester United
245. 12:27manager
246. 12:29I don't know because uh first what I
247. 12:34have already said first I have to see
248. 12:37how the players uh perform my
249. 12:41philosophy and how quick they can pick
250. 12:44up this
251. 12:47philosophy and uh then I can answer but
252. 12:51now uh I uh haven't worked with most of
253. 12:55them so we have to wait and see because
254. 12:58it is very important that there is a
255. 13:00click between the players and and and
256. 13:03the
257. 13:04manager
258. 13:06so is is a top four finish a Champions
259. 13:08League finish the minimum you would
260. 13:10require from this group of
261. 13:13players it for me the challenge is
262. 13:17always uh
263. 13:19first and not uh
264. 13:22Force but uh when you uh have to analyze
265. 13:28after one season is Dependable of the
266. 13:30click between players and manager
267. 13:35Cod my name is from I the for Grant um
268. 13:39how would you compare the Premier League
269. 13:41with La Liga and with the bu Liga where
270. 13:44you have experience how do you compare
271. 13:45the Premier League those
272. 13:48competitions uh I have uh never worked
273. 13:50in a premier league so it's it's uh
274. 13:53because of that a big challenge that
275. 13:54that I want
276. 13:56also uh but I I have worked worked in in
277. 14:00uh uh the Spanish league and also the
278. 14:02German league and in my time in my time
279. 14:06of Barcelona at that time I think uh the
280. 14:10Spanish league was the best league and
281. 14:12in my time uh of Germany I'm sorry uh in
282. 14:17Germany we were the best league and
283. 14:19maybe when I work here the Premier
284. 14:21League is the best
285. 14:23league James hi Louie uh James Ducker
286. 14:27from the Times newspaper
287. 14:29um you described your style as uh
288. 14:31Democratic and a lot of the Dutch
289. 14:33players at the World Cup were very um
290. 14:36complimentary about your man management
291. 14:38but you do have a reputation for being
292. 14:40very
293. 14:41autocratic is is that reputation unfair
294. 14:45unfair can you explain why yeah because
295. 14:48of the media wants to show uh that uh
296. 14:52part of uh the personality but that part
297. 14:55of the personality is like this
298. 14:59but when you uh repeat always that then
299. 15:03uh everybody
300. 15:04thinks like that if you were just
301. 15:07autocrat if you were just autocratic
302. 15:09could you not have had the success that
303. 15:12you have had in your
304. 15:14career no I'm always the the same person
305. 15:19when when I was uh uh 39 when I uh began
306. 15:24because I was
307. 15:2637 uh when I played uh professional
308. 15:29football still and then I was assistant
309. 15:33so that I don't count but from 39 I was
310. 15:36head coach of Ajax Amsterdam until now
311. 15:40the personality is not has not been
312. 15:43changed it's the same
313. 15:45personality but uh uh autocratic or uh
314. 15:50strong personality is not the same word
315. 15:54and more or less a lot of people are
316. 15:56thinking it's the same word but it's not
317. 15:58not like that I have a strong philosophy
318. 16:01and and uh every year I I have trained
319. 16:05it it is confirming that
320. 16:10philosophy so Alec has also a strong uh
321. 16:14philosophy sir Alec yeah yeah okay and
322. 16:19it was always confirming that because he
323. 16:21won a lot of titles with Manchester
324. 16:24United then I think he has a very good
325. 16:27philosophy when you can do that I hope I
326. 16:30can do that or I can start with that
327. 16:34philosophy Lou Richard Tanner at the
328. 16:36Daily Express just you just mentioned
329. 16:38Sir Alex have you had a chance to speak
330. 16:40to him yet about the job and also are
331. 16:43you daunted about no following a man who
332. 16:46had such a successful record here of
333. 16:48course I'm Democratic
334. 16:51so no no he he he called me to
335. 16:55congratulate me and uh we have spoken
336. 16:58about a cup of coffee to drink or to eat
337. 17:01with each
338. 17:02other we were always invited to the
339. 17:06elite form of the
340. 17:08UEA and uh we did always the light out
341. 17:13with a glass of wine so we know each
342. 17:15other very well and uh I shall uh drink
343. 17:19coffee and drink wine with him maybe the
344. 17:24better wine I can imagine Lou this two
345. 17:28questions Lou there's huge excitement uh
346. 17:30among your Manchester United fans at
347. 17:32your arrival what's the one thing that
348. 17:33excites you most about this Challenge
349. 17:35and this job that you're taking
350. 17:41on
351. 17:44yeah it's it's difficult to uh
352. 17:49describe because I am now two days
353. 17:54here uh I have met a lot of people
354. 17:59and uh when you see that kind of people
355. 18:04who are loving the club it's a big
356. 18:09family and they expect a lot of me they
357. 18:13are very excited to uh to meet
358. 18:17me but uh can I fulfill that
359. 18:22expectation I think I can do but because
360. 18:27of the greatness
361. 18:28of this
362. 18:30club uh it's all also much more
363. 18:34difficult than in another
364. 18:37club and
365. 18:39also uh this club is also
366. 18:43uh guided in
367. 18:48the com Commercial
368. 18:51Way and and we have to fulfill that also
369. 18:56and that is not always possible to
370. 18:58fulfill the commercial uh expectations
371. 19:01or the football
372. 19:03expectations so that that is my big
373. 19:06challenge I think after two days but
374. 19:09maybe it shall be changing uh after the
375. 19:12United States tour I don't know but I
376. 19:15don't think so okay last question Lou
377. 19:18fras Anton from Sky Sports given the
378. 19:20number of players that left over the the
379. 19:23course of the summer experienced players
380. 19:25how big a role do the remaining
381. 19:28experienced players like Wayne Rooney
382. 19:30for example have to play in the team
383. 19:32going
384. 19:34forward
385. 19:36yeah you have to know that
386. 19:40uh I'm not always convinced of the
387. 19:43experience of
388. 19:45players because that I have said a lot
389. 19:49of times in the
390. 19:51media a boy like Claren
391. 19:56sorf he was 16 years
392. 20:00old I let him make uh his debut in in in
393. 20:06the is quad at that time but with 16
394. 20:09years old he was sometimes more
395. 20:13experienced than a player of 30 years
396. 20:16old so it's always Dependable of the
397. 20:21personality and you named uh
398. 20:24Rooney but for example Michael Carrick
399. 20:31he has injured uh last uh day or the day
400. 20:35before that so that's in my opinion also
401. 20:39a big
402. 20:40blow because he is an experienced
403. 20:46player so always it's very important
404. 20:51that we have experienced player but not
405. 20:54only in
406. 20:55age not only in football experience but
407. 20:59also experience as a human being because
408. 21:03my philosophy is not only the football
409. 21:06player but in
410. 21:09total and
411. 21:11then there are not so many experience
412. 21:15players I'm sorry