5 things that would have happened if Louis van Gaal was still at Manchester United

#4 Gareth Bale would be here

Bale signed for Real Madrid in 2013 for £85.1m

Before he went to Real Madrid, Gareth Bale was pencilled in for a move to Old Trafford, instead, the Cardiff boy flew to Madrid for the world’s most expensive transfer. Fast forward a couple of seasons and the Welshman’s career is not soaring as most thought it would.

He’s played second fiddle to Cristiano Ronaldo and not quite been able to make BBC a feared trio like MSN. That’s why the rumours of a move to Old Trafford resurfaced throughout the 2015/16 season whilst Van Gaal was there.

It was widely reported that the Dutchman was looking for a right winger to become a double act with Anthony Martial, sadly the board had other ideas.

As Mourinho came in, the rumours of a homecoming for Pogba became stronger and the Portuguese boss spent unnecessarily on a position that didn’t need strengthening. Van Gaal was building something at United, so it’s a mystery as to why he wasn’t allowed to add the missing piece to it.