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There are two sides to every story, of course, and Van Gaal has been asked for his own observations in response to Di Maria’s comments.<\/p>\n
Firstly, the highly-respected former Netherlands coach said he never asked to sign the player. It was a club decision, which he felt was a mistake.<\/p>\n
Secondly, he is a structured manager with a vision about the game, which assigns a job description for every player, and the role they need to carry out.<\/p>\n
Van Gaal argues he tried Di Maria in many positions without being about to find one where he was effective.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Di Maria’s criticisms are pointed and personal.<\/p>\n
“Like I said, I started really well. Everything was perfect. But then suddenly we started having lots of meetings about all the things I was doing wrong on the pitch,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He never showed me what I was doing well, just the negatives, over and over. Eventually I got fed up.<\/p>\n
“Life there was very different. It gets dark really early and then the cold started. Everything kept snowballing. There was also the break-in at my house.<\/p>\n
“When all of that happens; when you are not playing, when things aren’t going well for you, when you have problems inside the club, it ends up affecting you a lot. It made me hate being there.<\/p>\n
“I got robbed in Paris too and still stayed for another two or three years, because life there was good.<\/p>\n
“In Manchester, everything just snowballed. I wanted to prioritise my family and that is why I left.”<\/p>\n
Di Maria’s wife Jorgelina Cardoso was also unhappy in Manchester and in an interview with the Daily Mail in 2022, said: “I didn’t like it at all. People are all weird. You walk around and you don’t know if they’re going to kill you. The food is disgusting. The women look like porcelain. <\/p>\n
“Angel and I were in Madrid, at the best team in the world, perfect food, perfect weather, everything was perfect. And then came United’s proposal.<\/p>\n
“I told him ‘no way, no way’, but he kept saying we will be a little more financially secure and we have to go. We fought about it. I don’t blame him for going there. It was horrible. <\/p>\n
“I just told him, ‘darling, I want to kill myself, it’s night time at two o’clock’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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