Van Gaal for German discipline

German greatest, Bayern Munich seem to have finally found what they were looking for these last few weeks as they have announced a big, experienced name to come to the hot bench of underachieving team. Louis Van Gaal is expected to make a radical cut to the club and he will have the chance to do so starting July 1st.  Football professor, as the media call him, will not have an easy task in Bayern since there is a lot to clean up behind young Jurgen, starting from the locker room.

Poor Klinsmann was sacked after only ten months spent in the club, but all that matters in Germany is work and results, something that Jurgen lacked very much. Discipline is a word you won’t find in his dictionary and, without it, the axe came as a logical conclusion. Language classes and Buddhist statues he brought in to Bayern training centre might’ve worked somewhere in China or Japan perhaps, but not in Germany. Even though his side is still bidding for the title being leveled on points with leaders, Wolfsburg, this season has been a turbulent one which brought a great deal of unrest and suspicion in the squad.

And now, as they have seen that the innovator’s approach gave no results, or at least not the expected and desired ones, Bayern board turned to a top-level, disciplinarian who will surely make it all right for the defending champions. Louis Van Gaal has signed a two-year contract with Bayern and will hope to build on the fine spell he had with AZ Alkmaar ending with him winning the Dutch championship with them on 19th April this year.

This respectable manager has a long, estimable career behind him and is definitely the right man for the German outfit. Before the successful campaign with AZ Alkmaar, Van Gaal previously had a lengthy spell with Ajax, leading them to UEFA Champions League title in 1995 when he developed players like Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars and launched them into the stars. He also led the giants from Amsterdam to consecutive Dutch titles between 1994, 1995, 1996. In 1998 and 1999, he also won La Liga titles with Barcelona before taking over the Dutch national team in 2000. The honored manager seems like a perfect choice for a hot Bayern bench and I’m convinced that he will succeed in getting the fallen giants back on the football sky. Bayern are desperate for European success having last won the Champions League in 2001 and Van Gaal will be expected to get more silverware to the club and nothing less than another Bundesliga title in the next season.

I guess we will just have to wait and see…

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