Angel Di Maria, who made Man United ‘hate’ him, and Van Gaal have parted ways.

There are two sides to every story, and Van Gaal was asked for his own observations on Di Maria’s comments.

First of all, the highly respected former Dutch coach said he never asked to sign the player. It was the club’s decision that he felt was wrong.

Secondly, it is a structured manager who has a vision of the game, which assigns a job description to each player, and the role they should perform.

Van Gaal argued that they tried Di Maria in many places without finding him effective.

However, Di Maria’s criticisms are pointed and personal.

“Like I said, I started well. Everything was perfect. But suddenly we started having a lot of meetings about all the mistakes I made on the field,” he said.

“He never showed me what I was doing well, only the negatives, over and over again. I finally had enough.

“That life was very different. It was really dark in the morning and then the cold started. Everything was shaking with snow. There was also a break in my house.

“When it’s all that, when you’re not playing, when things aren’t going well for you, when you have problems at the club, it ends up affecting you a lot. It makes me hate being there.

“I was robbed in Paris and I stayed another two or three years, because life was good.

“Everything went downhill in Manchester. I wanted to put my family first, that’s why I left.”

Di Maria’s wife Georgina Cardoso was not happy in Manchester and in an interview with the Daily Mail in 2022 she said: “I didn’t like it at all. The people are all strange. You walk around and you don’t know if they are going to kill you. The food is disgusting. The women look like clay.

“Angel and I were in Madrid, with the best team in the world, perfect food, perfect weather, everything was perfect. And then the idea of ​​United came.

“No way,” I told him, but he kept saying that we would be a little better off financially and that we should go. We fought about it. I don’t blame him for going there. It was horrible.

“I just told him, my dear, I want to kill myself. It’s two o’clock.”