Case Study Of Manchester United

Will He Stay or Will He Go? Manchester United is the most successful soccer club of all time in England, winning 20 English League titles. Most of those titles came during the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson, who won a whopping 13 titles from 1986 to 2013. After he retired, though, the club went on a downward spiral, finishing 7th in the league after appointing David Moyes as manager and firing him after 10 months in charge. That is when Louis van Gaal arrived. Having arrived after a period of agony, bringing titles from Ajax from Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich of Germany, van Gaal’s hiring was a huge sigh of relief for all Man United fans. But Louis van Gaal didn’t bring to the table what fans thought. His management of Manchester United for the last 18 months has had a negative result on the club, because, even though he has made some improvement, he has brought a negative playing style to Manchester United that hasn’t produced good enough results, Manchester United’s global reputation has gone down, and the fans have become more and more unhappy with the club, …show more content…
The fans are the most important parts of the team, because there would be no club without them. Players wouldn’t be making the outrageous wages they are making without fans. The manager’s paycheck wouldn’t come in the mail without the fans. The club in a sense is run by the fans. Louis van Gaal hasn’t listened to the fans of Manchester United. They want the club to play attacking soccer, scoring goals, and entertaining the crowd. Manchester United fans have conveyed their opinions many times. In a 1-0 loss to Southampton, Manchester United fans booed and whistled (the European equivalent to booing) the players and manager as the left the field, because they only had one shot on target and had one of the poorest displays of soccer from any Manchester United team. They have also walked out of games that the are losing due to the poor playing