The future of Louis van Gaal as ManU manager "took another intriguing twist on Wednesday" after the club released a video promoting its summer tour of China which "failed to show any images of the Dutchman," according to the London TELEGRAPH. ManU will face Man City in a friendly derby in Beijing on July 25 during its summer tour of the country in which it will "also face Borussia Dortmund." The video to promote the eight-day Chinese visit features former ManU players such as George Best and Eric Cantona as well as glimpses of "no fewer than 14" of the current ManU first team squad, including newcomers such as Marcus Rashford and Guillermo Varela. But "nowhere in the near-minute long package is there any footage showing van Gaal." While "inconclusive, the fact van Gaal has been airbrushed from the current marketing campaign will simply fuel speculation" that he will be leaving the club this summer, two-thirds of the way into the three-year contract he signed when he took over from David Moyes and which, he claimed, "will mark his last job in football." The club has "steadfastly refused to respond to conjecture about van Gaal’s future or indeed the numerous and various reports that Jose Mourinho has already agreed to take over this June" (TELEGRAPH, 3/23). The video promoting the tour is available here.
