Friday, 19th September, 2014
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal insist that he is not wedded to a particular formation and is willing to switch to whatever he finds suits his players the best.
The Dutch tactician started with a 3-5-2 system in pre-season when he took over at Old Trafford and took it into the Premier League campaign.
However, a back four was in operation against QPR last weekend, with Van Gaal choosing a 4-4-2 set-up with a diamond midfield.
And he is set to reappraise what tactics are best given the players he brought into the club before the summer transfer window closed, with no rigidity on his part.
"I said already, in the beginning, that I have started with another system because of the quality of the players", the Manchester United manager told a press conference.
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"Now we have bought quality of players in. And you have to look at these qualities and then you want to perform the philosophy that we have and then you are coming out in this system.
"But it can be changed also.
"It is not that it is a fixed solution.
"I have played that already in my first match at Ajax, where it was a law that we played 4-3-3. But I played 4-4-2 as trainer-coach of the second team because I saw it was more suitable for the quality of my players. That was 1998, a long time ago", Van Gaal concluded.
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