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It’s all change at United’s Carrington training complex as Louis van Gaal battles to cure the injury crisis that has savaged the Reds senior squad this season.

The debilitating injury curse that has ripped through the first team squad this campaign – affecting up to TEN players since the Dutchman’s arrival – has forced the Reds boss to re-assess his training and treatment programmes.

The 63-year-old has been a manager for 23 years since starting as Ajax coach in 1991 and has admitted he has never known a casualty pile-up in his whole career like he has had to endure in his first few months at Old Trafford.

But it is not a one-off at United and the club for a number of seasons now have been hit by some cruel injury plagues.

But Van Gaal is determined to get to the root of the problem and is reviewing United’s schedule both for training and pre-match.

It has hampered the new manager’s ability to truly assess his squad. Asked about the extent of the casualty list – which now includes Phil Jones, who will be out for a month with a hamstring injury – Van Gaal said: “This is a big concern. Because it’s not nice that I can’t compare the players.”

Despite having a rethink about United’s training programme, Van Gaal insists the work needed is still vital if he is to realise his ambitions at United.

“I am evaluating. I have changed my preparation scheme because of it for example,” he explained.

“I have also changed what we have to do after matches. I have changed the schedule of times. I am always evaluating things.

“Then of course we have to evaluate how we train. But for the level that I demand as a coach we need to train like that. But the players have to adapt to that level and that’s the crucial thing. What can we do to adapt to a certain level that the players can fulfil and that we improve our level?

“My philosophy is not only a mode of play but it is also about how we are treating players.

“The way we are building up training sessions. The way we have to prepare for games. The way we have to do our rehabilitation.

“This is the process and steps you have to make. It is a lot of things. But one of the most important things is that I not only see the players as a football player but also as a human being.

“However, my philosophy has always bought a lot titles.”

Van Gaal refused to divulge the nature of the changes he is in the process of making to keep the number of injuries down but the plan is just part of a major overhaul on and off the field at United’s Carrington complex.

On his arrival at the multi-million pound state-of-the-art centre, Van Gaal praised the facilities but immediately declared the training ground was too open and needed to be more ‘intimate’.

New trees have been planted to shield the training pitches from the wind that blows through the complex and high definition cameras have been installed to track the training sessions.