10 Things Man Utd Fans Need To Know About Louis Van Gaal

3. He Will Probably Keep Ryan Giggs

With United stalwarts Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic moving on this summer, fans will probably be pleased that Ryan Giggs at least is staying, as hinted recently by van Gaal.

€œWhen I go to a new club, I always want to keep one coach from the existing staff and that person at Bayern was Herman Kerland, who is still working under Pep Guardiola.

I wanted to know who was coming through the youth system €“ and he is the man who said to me €˜Muller, Badstuber and Alaba. These are the players.€™

So I let them train with the first team, I observed them €“ and then I decided where they were going to play.€

That's the biggest hint yet that the legendary Giggs will be allowed to stay at Old Trafford, likely in a no.2 role, given van Gaal's preference to maintain existing members of the former regime's coaching staff whenever moving to a new club. Giggs could learn a lot under van Gaal and could perhaps one day go on to be our next manager.
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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.