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Louis van Gaal and Manchester United have agreed that the Dutch coach should become the club’s manager next season, once he has completed the World Cup in Brazil with the Netherlands. According to Dutch daily,  De Telegraaf, first talks between the parties began a fortnight ago, before the sack of David Moyes, and an agreement was reached on Friday night after talks with one of the Glazer brothers, club director Ed Woodward, and a club lawyer at Van Gaal’s holiday home in Portugal. The America-based Glazer family owns Manchester United and would give Van Gaal a budget of €100 million to spend on new players. Van Gaal has been the bookies’ runaway favourite to take over after Moyes lost his job earlier in the week. However, former manager, Alex Ferguson has backed interim manager Ryan Giggs, whose first match in charge is against Norwich City on today, as the club’s full-time boss, British media reported.