Can Van Gaal Follow The Irreplaceable One?
Updated: 4:14pm UK, Monday 19 May 2014
By Paul Kelso, Sports Correspondent
Sir Alex Ferguson may be irreplaceable, but on the evidence of the last week, Louis van Gaal is going to give it a good try.
It remains to be seen what the man currently preparing Holland for the World Cup has planned on the field.
But in his dealings with the media, the second front for any manager, he shows all the signs of being a worthy successor.
British reporters dispatched to try and elicit a comment on United before his formal confirmation as manager found van Gaal by turns charming, evasive, astute, irascible, and downright rude.
In short, many of the qualities that made Ferguson a formidable interviewee, and an even more impressive manager.
Plenty more of this will follow when van Gaal takes up his post later in the summer, though United's owners and fans will be far more interested in his plans for the players than the press corps.
Van Gaal's record over two decades at some of Europe's leading clubs suggest he has the personality to succeed in a job which, as David Moyes found, can cow even the most confident individual.
He is a manager who expects to wield total authority and is seldom troubled by self-doubt.
Uli Hoeness, the former president of Bayern Munich, where van Gaal spent two seasons from 2009, said he thinks of himself as "God's very own father".
Hoeness, since jailed for tax evasion, may not be the best character witness, but there is no doubting Van Gaal's self-confidence.
It is built on two decades of success at the highest level.
He's won the league at every club he has managed, and shown himself capable of dealing with the world's best players.
Van Gaal's coaching career began at Ajax, where he oversaw perhaps the last great team to emerge from the Dutch giants.
The side that won the 1995 European Cup included Edwin van de Sar, Frank and Ronald De Boer, Frank Rijkaard, Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Marc Overmars and had Patrick Kluivert on the bench,
It is perhaps the finest crop of young players produced at any single club in the last 20 years, United's Class of '92 included.
From there he went to Barcelona, where in his first spell he twice won La Liga, but left under a cloud after falling out with, you guessed, the media.
His first spell as Dutch national coach proved his biggest failure to date.
The team did not qualify for the 2002 World Cup, unthinkable in Holland, and a disastrous second spell at Barcelona followed, after which he retreated home to rebuild his career at AZ Alkmaar before joining Bayern.
There he won the Bundesliga but that feat has been eclipsed by the achievements of the managers who followed him, Juup Heynckes and Pep Guardiola.
Van Gaal has said he serves credit for laying the foundations of Bayern's current domination. Deserved or not, no-one at United will complain if he does something similar at Old Trafford.
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