Louis van Gaal's last job as coach was in 2022, when he left the post of coach of the Dutch national team after the World Cup in Qatar.

The Dutch specialist is 72 years old and has overcome prostate cancer and according to an interview he gave to ESPN, it seems that he is no longer thinking about running the club.

He revealed that this summer he rejected an offer from Bayern, who were looking for Thomas Tuchel's successor. The coach did not accept the invitation and in the end the former Belgian defender Vincent Kompany, who previously coached the English Burnley, came to the bench.

"Now I'm relatively healthy again. I could work, but not as a club coach. I was wanted by Bayern before Kompany. As a coach, you're busy several times a year and you scout players with your staff. I can still do that," he said. Van Gaal.

Today Van Gaal is a consultant at Ajax, while during his rich career as a coach he has managed a number of clubs. According to Transfermarkt, he started in the mid-1980s as an assistant at AZ Alkmaar and coach of Ajax's U-19 and U-21 teams. He then became an assistant at the famous Amsterdam club, and then its head coach.

In the following decades, he was at Barcelona, ​​Netherlands U-21 and A, AZ, Bayern and Manchester United. The last time he became a club manager was at United in 2016. According to Transfermarkt, he won 20 club trophies.