Louis van Gaal is gone and Paul Scholes is still whinging.
The Manchester United legend, adored throughout his playing career not just because he was so good but because he kept his head down and got on with it, is taking pops again.
Retirement is the worst thing that could’ve happened to him. Honestly, he hasn’t shut up since.
Last season, it just went from bad to worse in the Paul Scholes’ School of Opinions.
Scholes on Danny Welbeck
“He would walk into this team, without a shadow of a doubt and he’s just been allowed to go.”
Scholes on Anthony Martial
“As a 20-year-old, he is a second or third choice.”
That includes a suggestion to buy a player who looks more bothered than Martial in the January transfer window and so on and so on and so on.
The one thing he did say last season was that the answer to make Manchester United great again was simple: just go out and get Varane, Modric and Pogba.
However, Scholes has yet again woke up on the wrong side of the wrong bed and eased up his praise of the French midfielder who seems to be on his way to Manchester United.
Paul Scholes on Paul Pogba (March 2016)
“We probably need a centre forward but there’s not too many of them about so I’m going to say I’d like us to bring Paul Pogba back.”
Paul Scholes on Paul Pogba (July 2016)
“I just don’t think he is worth £86m,” he told Sport Witness. “For that sort of money, you want someone who is going to score 50 goals a season like Ronaldo or Messi. Pogba is nowhere worth that kind of money yet.”
And, as far as needing centre forwards go, Scholes doesn’t care anymore that Mourinho has actually brought one of the best forwards to Old Trafford as he took aim once more at his former club.
“We don’t know about Zlatan,” Scholes said. “He is 34 and probably going to play only for a year. Okay, he is a fit lad.
“I think with Ibrahimovic it is, he was playing in a team of PSG and they created a lot of chances. It was easy for him to score goals in that league.
“This Manchester United team isn’t as good as the PSG team.”
And he recalled his memories of Pogba at United, where Scholes was brought out of retirement by Ferguson rather than play the Frenchman who was there all along.
“He was a very talented young player, I played with him and I knew how good he was,” he said.
“He played for the first team maybe once or twice, but from my understanding he was asking for too much money.
“For his age, he was asking for far too much money, that too for a player who hasn’t played first team football.”
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