The Nou Camp during Van Gaal's tenure became one of the most successful managerial finishing schools the game has ever known. In the years since, "Barcelona" has a sort of blue-chip brand in coaching, the one word on a manager's CV that is guaranteed to open doors. "We had a strong dressing room, really strong personalities," Oscar Garcia, who went on to manage Brighton and Watford, said in an interview with the Evening Standard this year. "Everyone was trying to help everybody. A lot of us have gone on to be managers."