You go to big Louis… and show him this.
As United find themselves outside of the top four for the first time in a while, two points from last year’s final destination of seventh, many are hovering over the panic button.
A draw with West Ham saw them drop two valuable points as Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Southampton kept chase with van Gaal’s side in the race for a Champions League spot.
The 13-time Premier League champions entertain Burnley tonight at Old Trafford but a number of inconsistencies over the last number of weeks in results, performances, team selections have seen the Dutch boss come under more scrutiny.
What the manager can stand over though is that his record is better than most who took the reins at the club. Just not any in the last three decades.
This new graphic shows just how well the current Manchester United manager is comparing with his predecessors in one of the biggest jobs in football and, whilst van Gaal might argue that he’s on target for a top four finish, it makes for grim reading that you have to go back to 1981 and Dave Sexton’s tenure to find a former boss’s record bettered by Louis. Sexton, incidentally, finished fourth that season.
Even poor David Moyes was winning a higher percentage of games before he got the chop.
Wonder if that’s in the dossier.
Graph produced by Jishai Evers.
