4. Be ruthless
When Van Gaal replace Jasper Cillessen with Tim Krul ahead of Holland’s World Cup quarter-final against Costa Rica at the weekend, many, including the original custodian, believed it to be a strange and unfair decision. However, do you think he cared about that? No. It worked and that’s all that mattered. The likes of Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger will look to use his lack of Premier League experience against him, but he has a success record that means he won’t have to be sucked into any mind games, but give him the ammunition to pull some of his own.
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