Don’t get too carried away here. What most of you don’t seem to grasp is Van Gaal doesn’t have the players to fit his philosophy. Pedro certainly doesn’t fit the bill for the philosophy he is trying to implement, hence them pulling out of the deal and allowing Chelsea to sign him.
He’s changing their style from a team who always had pacey wingers, played it out wide early to try to isolate the full backs to swing a cross in of a CF's to get on the end of. What Van Gaal is trying to do has never been done before. He’s creating a brand new style of football.
Much the way Barcelona are renowned for their tika taka football, give it another 5 years or so and United will be credited for inventing hoofball. Now this isn’t just any old hoofball, this is a new style of hoofball; this is the best and the biggest hoofball in the world. The long diagonal balls to the Belgian Afro Headed Superstar are something to behold and something of beauty.
Never before has the world of football seen hoofball played where the target man is a midfielder who drifts in the channels finding the smallest person he can find to bully. Historically, hoofball tactics involved a target man and flick ons to a smaller pace striker (Fash the Bash & Tiny Terry Gibson spring to mind), but Van Gaal has adapted this for the modern game where a lot of midfielders are now slightly shorter and more technically gifted than they once were. This means that Fallaini can use his height advantage to good effect, whilst this also negates his lack of technical ability with the all at his feet, heading balls backwards to his other midfielders so they get up the pitch very very quickly without having to kick the ball more than once. This man is a pure genius to dream up these tactics. Pedro would definitely not fit his philosophy as hoofball is the direct opposite to Tika Taka, which is what Pedro has grown up with. Genius I tell you all, he’s a genius. He’s like a rich man’s Sam Alladyce.