SOKA: "VAN GAAL HAKUNIOMBA NIWE MSAIDIZI WAKE, ALINIAMBIA NIWE" AKIRI RYAN GIGGS
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During a TV documentary charting his
final playing season at Manchester United, Ryan Giggs is shown getting
angry in the wake of a home defeat to Sunderland in his second game as
interim manager. His knuckles go white on his car’s steering wheel.
Three months on, United’s new assistant manager is no longer angry as he sits in a low chair in a Beverly Hills hotel. The message, though, is exactly the same.
‘The players have got to take a bit of pride in how they perform, train and play,’ says Giggs. ‘There’s no doubt that few players lived up to the standards of what they are capable of doing last season.
‘They are not bad players but last season’s league position showed that we didn’t perform. The way back for them has started already, in training. There is no time to waste. The recovery has to start now, getting some kind of form.
‘That is why I was so disappointed after the Sunderland game. The team I put out would have won if they had played to their potential.’
United have a new manager now of course, Dutchman Louis van Gaal, but the wreckage of last season remains.
A seventh-place Barclays Premier League finish means no European football while some of the continent’s biggest stars have decided to look elsewhere for their career development.
It’s tempting to say that Giggs has seen it all before, but he hasn’t. He hasn’t seen United off their perch, looking desperately for the credibility and authority that always seemed part of their DNA.
Asked if there was fear in United’s football at Old Trafford last season, Giggs says: ‘Yeah, there was. Old Trafford had always been a fortress over the years, the place nobody wanted to go. Towards the end of last season it wasn’t like that.
‘You don’t know if players will be scarred by last season but you hope they respond in a positive way.
‘In my first season we lost out in the league against Leeds and I couldn’t wait in the pre-season to get back.
‘I wanted to get rid of that feeling I had because until you could do something about it that feeling was always there.
‘I’m sure these players can’t wait to get to Old Trafford and produce the form they are all capable of.’
Giggs, 40 now, has been impressed by Van Gaal. Offered the role of assistant after half an hour of chat in a Dutch hotel last May, he believes he sees some of the great Sir Alex Ferguson in his new mentor’s methods and thinks he sees United’s players responding to the 62-year-old’s simple, clear methods.
It will seem strange never to see Giggs in a red shirt again. United’s record appearance holder’s time has finally passed.
He isn’t overly interested in sentimental reflection, though.
Giggs admits he became emotional briefly at the end of last season — wondering if his time at the club was up — but all that disappeared once he met Van Gaal in Amsterdam.
Three months on, United’s new assistant manager is no longer angry as he sits in a low chair in a Beverly Hills hotel. The message, though, is exactly the same.
‘The players have got to take a bit of pride in how they perform, train and play,’ says Giggs. ‘There’s no doubt that few players lived up to the standards of what they are capable of doing last season.
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‘They are not bad players but last season’s league position showed that we didn’t perform. The way back for them has started already, in training. There is no time to waste. The recovery has to start now, getting some kind of form.
‘That is why I was so disappointed after the Sunderland game. The team I put out would have won if they had played to their potential.’
United have a new manager now of course, Dutchman Louis van Gaal, but the wreckage of last season remains.
A seventh-place Barclays Premier League finish means no European football while some of the continent’s biggest stars have decided to look elsewhere for their career development.
It’s tempting to say that Giggs has seen it all before, but he hasn’t. He hasn’t seen United off their perch, looking desperately for the credibility and authority that always seemed part of their DNA.
Asked if there was fear in United’s football at Old Trafford last season, Giggs says: ‘Yeah, there was. Old Trafford had always been a fortress over the years, the place nobody wanted to go. Towards the end of last season it wasn’t like that.
‘You don’t know if players will be scarred by last season but you hope they respond in a positive way.
‘In my first season we lost out in the league against Leeds and I couldn’t wait in the pre-season to get back.
‘I wanted to get rid of that feeling I had because until you could do something about it that feeling was always there.
‘I’m sure these players can’t wait to get to Old Trafford and produce the form they are all capable of.’
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Giggs, 40 now, has been impressed by Van Gaal. Offered the role of assistant after half an hour of chat in a Dutch hotel last May, he believes he sees some of the great Sir Alex Ferguson in his new mentor’s methods and thinks he sees United’s players responding to the 62-year-old’s simple, clear methods.
It will seem strange never to see Giggs in a red shirt again. United’s record appearance holder’s time has finally passed.
He isn’t overly interested in sentimental reflection, though.
Giggs admits he became emotional briefly at the end of last season — wondering if his time at the club was up — but all that disappeared once he met Van Gaal in Amsterdam.
