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Your support makes all the difference.Under-pressure Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has written in his programme notes for United's next home match, against Chelsea on 28 December, that he believes he can still turn around the situation at Old Trafford.
United are currently nine points off the top of the Premier League in fifth place, and have been knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage.
They have failed to win in their last six matches in all competitions.
Yesterday, the Dutchman even stormed out of his press conference for this weekend's game, away at Stoke City, but he has come out in defiant mood in his notes for the programme.
"We can turn this situation around. This is Manchester United. A club which is known around the world or never being beaten," he wrote.
"See the team get poor results is strange for you, but the best way to come out of this and improve is for us all to stick together.
"There is no disguising the fact that we are in a very bad period, the worst I have known since I became United manager. [But] I have been a manager for a long time, so I have known bad times as well as good ones."
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