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For a Manchester United manager, there is never really a honeymoon period. Louis van Gaal probably realised that as soon as his team lost their opening game of the Barclays Premier League season to Swansea at Old Trafford. As United prepare to return to action at West Brom on Monday, however, it is hard to escape the feeling that their season, to all intents and purposes, starts now. The first thing Van Gaal did when he arrived at Old Trafford was to ask for time and that was reasonable. The squad he inherited from David Moyes lacked balance, he stressed, and he was right. This was a dressing room, for example, that had more No 10s than Trafford bus depot.

Several weeks on, however, and the
Barclays Premier League landscape is a little clearer.