Four players who could join Louis van Gaal at Manchester United

Manchester United announced Louis van Gaal as their new managertoday and as usual the rumour mill will be in full force, with a number of names already circulating the football galaxy.Van Gaal has the pedigree that David Moyes did not necessarily have and his work at Bayern Munich and Barcelona can go some way to attracting big names to join the club in the summer.Below are four players who van Gaal could lure to the Theatre of Dreams:

#1 Mats Hummels

The colossal Hummels has been linked heavily with Man United in recent weeks and his future at Borussia Dortmund is currently up in the air. Manchester United are in desperate need of reinforcements at the back with both Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic leaving the club in the summer. With such a gaping hole evident at the rearguard for the Red Devils, van Gaal’s first take will be to bolster the centre of defence.

Hummels is valued at roughly £25 million by his German employees and despite reportedly wanting to stay in Germany, van Gaal could lure the international defender to Old Trafford. Dortmund kept nine clean-sheets when Hummels played this season – they kept just one in the eleven games he missed.