{"id":123310,"date":"2019-06-03T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123310"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:53:46","slug":"man-united-ed-woodward-has-zero-understanding-of-football-van-gaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123310","title":{"rendered":"Man United: Ed Woodward has \u2018zero understanding&#8217; of football &#8211; Van Gaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Champions-League-Van-Gaal-attacks-Ajax-players-after-3-2-defeat-to-Tottenham.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal has claimed that the club\u2019s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward has \u2018zero\u2019 understanding of football.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old Dutchman criticised Woodward for the club\u2019s problems, adding that the 47-year-old simply isn\u2019t up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that,\u201d Van Gaal told German magazine 11 Freunde.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Manchester United, on the other hand, Ed Woodward was installed as CEO \u2013 somebody with zero understanding of football who was previously an investment banker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t hold it against the club. They wanted Mourinho and he was on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal added: \u201cAppointing Mourinho was obviously interesting from a business point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wins games. And for a club like United, the main thing is to win trophies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow they are won isn\u2019t the main priority, the English fans see it differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey accept that the game is not all about attacking but it is also about defending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition\u2019s half and play the game there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal was sacked by Man United in 2016 just two days after guiding the Red Devils to the FA Cup.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal has claimed that the club\u2019s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward has \u2018zero\u2019 understanding of football. The 67-year-old Dutchman criticised Woodward for the club\u2019s problems, adding that the 47-year-old simply isn\u2019t up to the job. \u201cAt Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that,\u201d Van Gaal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}