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Published 17:09 28 Mar 2019 GMT
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Van Gaal, who Wayne Rooney recently said was better tactically than Sir Alex Ferguson, was aware that the rebuild would take time - more than the two years he was given before he was replaced.
"They had seven players over 30," he says later on in the interview."We spoke about that at the job interview."
Van Gaal accuses United of being a "commercial club, not a football club" in the same BBC interview. He also takes aim at the playing styles of predecessor Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and, not for the first time, is particularly critical of the club's executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, and the way his departure from the club was handled.
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