Just a season and a half after his arrival at the club, the project of the Dutch Louis van Gaal on the bench for Manchester United suffered a considerable bump on Tuesday to say goodbye to the League of Champions first exchange.
The third richest team in the world, who last summer spent almost 110 million pounds (about 150 million) in remodelling its workforce, has failed to overcome a group stage with rivals at affordable priori as Wolfsburg, PSV Eindhoven and CSKA Moscow.
The 'Red Devils', who returned to the Champions hand of Louis van Gaal after a season away from European competitions after the farewell of Alex Ferguson , trust rejuvenate old laurels won the tournament three times, the last in 2008.
Thus, supported by substantial new television rights agreement of the Premier League and a checkbook envy most European football clubs, the north of England were launched in search of players who can put them back in first line of continental football.
The contract for television rights to the premier class of English football will move from the current 3.018 million pounds (4,300 million euros) to 5.136 million pounds (6.946 million euros) over the next three years, which gives clubs Premier a significant advantage over their European counterparts.
The champion of the English Premier League win over 150 million pounds (213 million euros), while the last place will receive 99 million (140.7 million euros).
However, the United invested over 110 million pounds in six players: Anthony Martial ( Monaco , £ 36 million), Morgan Schneiderlin (Southampton, £ 26 million), Memphis Depay (PSV, £ 25 million), Matteo Darmian ( Torino , £ 13 million), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich, £ 6.6 million) and Sergio Romero ( Sampdoria , free).
A -suplente- goalkeeper, side two midfielders and two attackers was the balance of a busy summer that fans Reds dreamed of Cristiano Ronaldo , Sergio Ramos , Paul Pogba and Neymar and had to settle Depay, Darmian , Schneiderlin and Martial.
The fans, though praised Van Gaal firmness in negotiations with Real Madrid by the goalkeeper David de Gea , criticized its unwillingness to reinforce the defense -at as did David Moyes-, the weak point of the team after the departure of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic .
Tuesday in Germany, at the meeting in which the club played its future in the Champions League, the Dutchman had chosen a defense of four with young Uruguayan Guillermo Valera -disputó his second game since joining the club 30 months ago , Chris Smalling , Daley Blind -a midfielder converted to zaguero- and Matteo Darmian leg changed.
The second half, for the injury the Italian side, the very young Cameron finished playing Borthwich-Jackson, 18, that before the Wolfsburg played his second game with the first team of United.
These controversial decisions of Van Gaal, opting for Borthwick-Jackson or replace Juan Mata for the young Nick Powell , whose last encounter with the 'Red Devils' 4-0 defeat was at the hands of MK Dons last season League Cup, have not been well regarded by fans, analysts and former players, who call for the immediate dismissal of the Dutch.
"As a Manchester United player I am ashamed of having fallen into the Champions League and having to play the Europa League. I expected more from us, "Ferdinand grumbled in his Twitter account.
Denmark's Peter Schmeichel , United's goalkeeper between 1991 and 1999, he also aired his displeasure on the popular social network ". That was a very lackluster performance was not at all good, a lot to improve," he wrote.
The poor offensive play of the team, in the last 11 games has seen only goal nine times (with belt draws 0-0), is a slab despite starting three forwards in the template, which does not seem to find the way of goal.
Van Gaal, however, has the fourth team in the Premiership, he insisted that the club has improved since coming to the bench 16 months ago.
"Right now I can not defend because we are out of the Champions League. But if you look at the facts we see that we have advanced in the Champions League and we have reached the group stage of the Champions", will He defended the Dutchman.
"The facts say that we are better than last year. That's my answer to the critics," Van Gaal boasted that since his arrival the club has invested more than 200 million pounds (300 million euros) in signings.
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