Louis van Gaal is known as the “Iron Tulip” due to his extremely hard-line leadership style. He’s continuing his habit of imposing strict policies with Manchester United. Van Gaal is winless in his first four tries with United, but it’s certainly not because of a lack of discipline.
LVG takes away the players cellphones the night before a match.
Obviously, he returns them to players, and it isn’t completely new to Old Trafford. The mobile phone rule was introduced by Sir Alex Ferguson in an attempt to prevent the leak of team news, says the Daily Mail.
But there are other authoritarian policies put in place by Louis van Gaal too, according to same piece in the Mail:
In Maarten Meijer’s biography of his compatriot, he wrote that while in charge of Ajax, Van Gaal fined players if they were even a minute late for breakfast – it was doubled if it happened again. The squad also had to start eating together and Van Gaal preferred that they only talk about football.
At United, the 63-year-old ordered the first team and the youth squads to eat together while he introduced a strict 1pm lunch and the installation of £500,000 worth of HD cameras at United’s Carrington training centre
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