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29th April 2016
07:05pm BST

Van Gaal has also underplayed the honours list of experienced players like Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick, who each have five domestic titles to their name.
“The players who are now playing, they are not used to being champions,” said Van Gaal in quotes appearing in the Mirror.
“I don't think Matteo Darmian is used to being a champion and David De Gea was never champion, so I don't agree with the way you make the question.
“Memphis Depay was a champion last year [with PSV Eindhoven] so not many players... Rooney, Carrick, they have been the champions once, or maybe more than once.
“But you have to see always the situation of where the club is, and we have seen that we are in a transitional period, and when I was mentioned as the coach, it was also about that we discussed.
"When I took over we had more than five or six players above 32 or 33, and then you have to select and buy other players, and there were not too many young players any more in the selection.
“So it is a process of transition, and now we are fighting for the qualification for the Champions League and we are still in the FA Cup, so we have to fight for something and we shall do it and hopefully we can beat Leicester.”

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