#5 The club’s reputation
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If David Moyes didn’t turn Manchester United into a complete laughing stock when he dragged the then league champions to a seventh placed finish, Van Gaal finished the job.
Once a club that was feared by almost everyone, the club has become somewhat of a joke in the football world and even the smallest clubs can now travel to Old Trafford looking for a win.
But it’s not just competitively that Manchester United have become a joke. The club’s demise has coincided with the rise of social media, meaning the Red Devils are often the butt of jokes on every football related site looking for cheap clicks or likes.
While a club such as United failing was always going to suffer a massive fallout due to its previous success, Manchester United can consider themselves unlucky that their fall from grace occurred when memes were brought into the mainstream.
Now universally laughed at on the internet after each poor result, Louis Van Gaal hasn’t exactly helped the club’s cause with his ridiculous quotes and antics. His most infamous moment arguably came against Arsenal, when he unusually rushed to the touchline and threw himself to the ground in front of the fourth official, mocking what he believed was a dive by Alexis Sanchez.
As soon as it happened everyone knew it would be an instant meme, and within minutes several edited variations of the fall had made its way onto social media.
It was something you would never have seen from former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and a real showing of how times have changed at Manchester United.
