Louis van Gaal seemingly unfazed by Jose Mourinho's comments about Luke Shaw

Few Premier League coaches share the bond that exists between Manchester United's Louis van Gaal and Chelsea's Jose Mourinho. After all, Van Gaal played a large part in launching Mourinho's career at Barcelona.

"The Special One" was expected to lose his job as an assistant at the Camp Nou when the Dutch manager stepped in to succeed Bobby Robson in 1997, but Van Gaal decided to hold on to Mourinho following a discussion where Mourinho passionately defended his former boss against criticism.

10 years after both coaches went their separate ways, they then met in the 2010 Champions League final when Mourinho's Inter Milan defeated Van Gaal's Bayern Munich 2-0. The two had remained in touch since leaving Barcelona, but it was the first time that they'd met on opposite ends of the sideline.

With such a history, it should come as no surprise that Van Gaal seems unfazed by Mourinho's comment that signing Luke Shaw "would have killed our stability with financial fair play and killed the stability in our dressing room."

"I don't have to answer, I don't think I have to discuss things with the media," said Van Gaal after his team's evening training session at Denver's Sports Authority Field. "It's better to discuss it with Jose."

Upon signing with Man Utd, Shaw became the highest paid teenage footballer in the world as he's set to receive a basic wage of £100,000 a week at Old Trafford.