Louis van Gaal has been given three years to win the Premier League at United and a new book just published in Holland gives an insight into just how it can be done.

‘1995’ is the story of Ajax’s Champions League triumph against AC Milan in Vienna a season that also saw Van Gaal’s young side win the Dutch Eredivisie title for the second time.

It was a campaign that saw the giants of the Netherlands go through the season unbeaten at home and in Europe.

The seeds for that phenomenal season were sown in 1991 when Van Gaal, at 39, was promoted from assistant to be the legendary Leo Beenhakker’s successor.

Click through the gallery to see some of Van Gaal's famous quotes.

And in Mike van Damme’s new book there are mirrors of Van Gaal’s strategy now being implemented at Old Trafford.

“The squad I took over was that of Beenhakker, therefore embedded with the choices of Beenhakker”, Van Gaal reflects on his transition to boss at Ajax.

“Frankly a club should have a philosophy and find a suitable manager for it, but you see often a manager implementing his philosophy in a club.

“It was the same with Beenhakker, and I started doing that too. I started changing the team, because I wanted my football to be played. To make that happen I needed different players for some positions. I had to bring in fresh blood.

“You can’t make that happen in a couple of months. It takes years.”

Danny Blind, father of United’s summer buy from Ajax Daley, was Van Gaal’s trusted on-field lieutenant in the early 90s.The 1995 Champions League winning skipper of Ajax gives an idea into the ideas that have been 20 years on transforming the landscape at United this season under his ex-manager.

“From day one there was discipline,” Blind remembers.

“We, as team, had to get used to that massively. Van Gaal was a bit like a schoolteacher who had to correct us all the time.

“It was impressive he never stopped doing that. We were, for example, only aloud to eat when everybody was present at the table.

“It wasn’t the meal itself he was interested in, but he believed in communication. Sharing a meal means talking to each other.

“You weren’t allowed to leave the table when one of your team members was still eating.

“That’s how he forged a team. It really wasn’t such a mess with other managers, but it wasn’t organised as tightly as under Van Gaal.

‘We all had to be really fit. We pressurised high on the pitch. He made everyone feel confident in order to make everybody feel comfortable.”