12 reasons Manchester United fans should be happy at Van Gaal’s appointment

7. The list of players he’s handed debuts to is downright absurd!

Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Carles Puyol, Victor Valdes (all Barcelona), Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert (all Ajax), Mark van Bommel, Rafael van der Vaart, Adam Maher (both Netherlands), David Alaba, Holger Badstuber (both Bayern Munich).

8. He looks like Butthead from Beavis & Butthead. Kind of…

9. He doesn’t lie down to power as Barcelona found out…

Piqué’s grandfather was even a club director, and one day he invited Barcelona’s coach Louis van Gaal to lunch. “This,” he said, introducing the young Gerard, “is my grandson – a centre-back for Barcelona’s youth team.”

Van Gaal looked at Piqué and, without warning, pushed him over. Towering above the 14- year-old, he barked: “You’re too weak to be a Barcelona defender.”

10. Van Gaal’s got cojones, as Luca Toni found out…

“Van Gaal wanted to make clear to us that he can drop any player from the team. It was all the same to him because, as he said, he had the balls. He demonstrated this literally by dropping his pants. I have never experienced anything like it, it was totally crazy. Luckily I didn’t see a lot, because I wasn’t in the front row.” – Luca Toni.