Yet even as Van Gaal, bound for Old Trafford once he has taken this comparatively callow Dutch squad as far as he can in Brazil, has led his side to maximum points in the group stage an undercurrent of disquiet has remained.
In many respects the signing served to rescue a testing transfer window for Arsenal, although there remained disquiet at the failure to sign a top-class striker, which had seemed the priority throughout the summer.
But he remained disquieted, and increasingly wondered what had happened to the real Nicholas Barclay.
The possible emergence of an African communist state remained a source of disquiet in the West.
While the skies remained threatening, there was lingering disquiet over the decision by tournament officials to postpone all the matches in the lower half of the men's draw after several were interrupted by rain on Saturday.
Heydarian said that while Duterte, who has launched a deadly war on crime since taking office in June, remained hugely popular, there was disquiet among voters about his mission to China.
He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere.
"There will remain much disquiet about the inclusion of Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia in the agreement.
He had crossed out two-thirds of the early clips, and he had written notes about what remained: "Nice but later"; "Where's this coming from?" His anticipation of an audience's likely boredom, disquiet, or satisfaction is unusually visceral.
Flower had also voiced some disquiet from the bowlers about Compton's approach in the field and, while whispers that Cook did not fancy him remained just that, there was a lingering sense that in the eyes of the old regime his face, rather than his cricket, was what did not fit.
