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Originally Posted by Bagor
On this Herrera signing. I find it hard to believe that he was a target both for Moyes and van Gaal. Makes you wonder sometimes who actually is making the decisions.
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it's pretty well documented what happened. Herrera was a United target ever since he destroyed them in the Europa League two years ago. Ferguson liked him a lot, but then he stepped down. All of the targets were reported to Moyes, who seemed to like Herrera too, but hesitated and eventually decided that he wanted to scout him more and make a decision in January. But United eventually grew frustrated with Moyes' hesitating and dithering last summer and decided to go for Herrera at the end of August nevertheless, but the deal collapsed on the very last day. Then in January, Moyes prefered Mata.
As for van Gaal, he himself said before the world cup that he told United who he wanted. You have to think that Herrera was somewhere on that list, otherwise I doubt they'd shell out that kind of money. With his attributes and strengths, Herrera is pretty much a "van Gaal player". No doubt that he signed off on the deal.