For all the easy headlines generated from his answer, Louis van Gaal didn’t really get into what would have been a complex enough discussion. The Manchester United manager was last week explicitly asked whether you now specifically need a 25-goal striker to win the league. Van Gaal responded in rather typical Van Gaal fashion, “Not only [Wayne] Rooney has to score, but other players have to score and we concede less.” It’s not exactly a clear answer to the question, but then it’s not exactly a clear issue. The reality is probably as Van Gaal suggested, that any good team that is sufficiently balanced has a fine chance to challenge, but there is...
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