He may look like a Dutch Steve Bruce and at 59 years old he's hardly the man many would have envisaged as a successor to Roy Hodgson at Liverpool but there are whisperings coming Germany that he may have already been approached about replacing Woeful Woy.
In his first season with Bayern they won the Champions League and in his second they walked away with the Bundesliga but were this time beaten in the finals of the Champions League by Jose's Inter Milan. There is also a very modern feel to their style of play and a look through the team reads like a checklist of fashionable tactical apparatus. They play with overlapping full-backs (particularly Philipp Lahm on the right); a centre-back capable of stepping up into midfield (Martín Demichelis); ‘inside-out’ wingers (Robben and Franck Ribéry); and multi-faceted forwards (Müller and Olić)
There is nothing magic or particularly flamboyant about the way Bayern play and the manner in which they dominate games and not even particularly entertaining. They are just supremely fit, hard-working and very difficult to beat. Typical Germans, you might say.
The following might also suggest that he is ready for a new challenge since his hopes of becoming the Dutch national team coach for Euro 2012 took a bashing by the success of Bert Van Mar wijk in South Africa.
From http://www.bundesligatalk.com/van-gaal-explains-germany-world-cup-exit-announces-national-team-desire/1234
Van Gaal also spoke about his desire to become a national team coach after his contract expires with Bayern Munich, which will not be some thing Die Roten fans want to hear after all the success he has been bringing to the club.
“My contract ends next year and I am not going to sign a new one before then. I won’t sign in the autumn or in the winter. I want to be a national team coach. I should really quit Bayern now because now is the time when national team coaches are being appointed. Therefore, maybe I will extend my con tract here by one year until 2012 and then take over a coun try (after Euro 2012). I am going to be at the next World Cup. I think so. I hope so.”
He also doesn't mind selling off star players, when last November he suggested that Bayern sell one of their biggest assets in Bastien Schweinsteiger.
Van Gaal backs Schweinsteiger sale
21 Nov 2010
German Bundesliga
Bayern Munich head coach Louis van Gaal has suggested that his club should cash in on midfield general Bastian Schweinsteiger, rather than trying to persuade the Germany international to sign a new contract.
The 26-year-old is out of contract at the end of next season and a host of top European clubs are believed to be tracking Schweinsteiger, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Chelsea.
That has prompted van Gaal to call for Bayern to follow the example of his former club Ajax and sell up.
He told the German media: "I think that Bayern Munich is a business and if it is true that 30 million euros have been offered for him, then you cannot just ignore that kind of money.
"I would do it differently - my clubs have always listened to what I have said and my clubs have always earned a lot of money."
His methods come straight from the school of Ajax and further philosophies can be seen in the following few images.
Extract from http://j.mp/
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