Man United are playing Hackney Marshes football. But does Van Gaal's chopping and changing tell us more about the limitations of the players... or the manager himself?

On the way home from Old Trafford on Monday night the debate, as it turned out, was the wrong debate. Should Danny Welbeck have been sold to Arsenal last summer? Should he, in turn, really have celebrated his winning goal back in Manchester? Both were rather irrelevant questions. Welbeck is an honest, talented footballer but he wouldn't make a difference to Louis van Gaal's United team. He is good without being really good.