The Frenchman was again on hand off the bench as Arsene Wenger's men snatched a late draw, leveling the game after a Juan Mata opener.
Who wouldn’t love to get paid a whole lot to do nothing?
Louis Van Gaal, head coach of Manchester United seems to have to have the best job in the world if his words are to be believed. The Dutchman claims Manchester United pay him a lot of money to basically do NOTHING
The coach admits he get to delegate duties to others rather than do them himself.
During a recent League Managers Association meeting LVG said: “I’m from a time where you [the manager] did everything. Now I’m the manager and I have a sports science department, I have a scouting department, I have a medical department, I have assistant managers, I have assistant coaches.
“I don’t do anything – nothing! I delegate. I delegate, and I earn a lot of money.”
According to the former Barcelona, Ajax and Bayern Munich manager, most of the innovations by managers today began from his time as a younger manager.
He said: “Feedback is very important, of course. But I have to say that because when I don’t say that then I’m arrogant!
“I am also an innovator, and I have changed a lot in terms of preparing for games. I was the first coach who was with a notebook. Now everybody is with a notebook. I was the first coach who used video.”
Manchester United are presently fourth on the premier league table; two points behind table toppers Arsenal and Manchester City. United face Watford in their next premier league game.
Super Eagles are condemned to beat Swaziland today in Port Harcourt to advance to the league stage of the qualifying tournament for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Swaziland held star-studded Nigeria to a scoreless draw in the first-ever meeting between the two teams on Friday in Lobambo.
Today’s kick-off is 4pm Nigerian time at the Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt.
The Southern Africans were resolute in defence and limited their more famous opponents to just a handful of chances for their enthusiastic fans to later celebrate a confidence-boosting draw.
The Eagles midfield again lacked creativity and so forcing the strikers like Odion Ighalo and Obafemi Martins to fall back deep to be part of the game.
Swaziland coach Harries Bulunga said his team are still capable of upsetting the three-time African champions in front of their own fans.
“We still believe. Our defence was superb (in the first leg), but we were not that sharp upfront,”
News emerging this morning reveals that the mother of current head coach of Nigeria’s U-23 football team, Samson Siasia has been kidnapped. According to reports, gunmen stormed the family residence of the Siasia’s in the early hours of Tuesday morning at Odoni community of Sagama Local Council Area of Bayelsa State and forcefully whisked away Siasia’s mother on a motorcycle.
Bayelsa State Police Command spokesperson, ASP Ansinim Butswat, has confirmed the incident saying that the matter has been reported, but details were still sketchy.
Speaking to the media on the incident, a distraught Siasia has expressed his confusion at the occurrence of the event. Siasia said: “Right now I am confused, from the story I got, three men on motorbike stormed my parents’ house in my village Odoni in Bayelsa State, shot sporadically into the air before taking my old mother away on a bike.
“What do they expect from me? I don’t have money, I am right now on national duty, and need all the time to concentrate on this very important national task. So, I beg them to please release my mother so that I can concentrate on this task of qualifying the U-23 National Team for the men’s football event of the Rio Olympics.”
In a statement released on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) website, NFF president, Amaju Pinnick has appealed to the kidnappers to release the 72 year old mother of the coach. “This is quite disturbing. We are just preparing for a crucial 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, and the U-23 boys are already in The Gambia for a pre-Cup of Nationstraining camp. Why this?
“All we can do is to appeal to the kidnappers to free Samson Siasia’s aged mother. Samson is on a critical national assignment presently and the last he needs is this kind of distraction,” Said Pinnick. As at the time of this report, it was revealed that the kidnappers are yet to demand ransom from the family.
