Ash_G
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Yeah I think that's a good way to put it. His passing is still there, it always will be but because of his limitations he's causing other issues both defensively and attackingly. But it's not just him, it's partly due to our set up. Fergie wants to play Scholes/Giggs but he's not making allowances for the fact that they can't do certain things now.The rhetoric of this thread is basically that Scholes is brilliant, but his brilliance is coming at a cost for the rest of the team. A bit like how we changed for the better as a team after we'd got rid of our dependence on Eric in 97 & Ruud in 06. Despite them both still being brilliant, we developed a far more exciting and coherent style after they left. Both times we also won the CL within 2 years.
In some games and situations he is still our best weapon, against Liverpool when they went down to ten it changed the game bringing him on, against Spurs for the first 20 mins of so of the second half once we scared them with some goals and they backed of he took control of the game, against weaker teams at home who park the bus his range helps expose them. But in other games such as that first half against spurs, where teams will come out and compete he just can't handle the other stuff he has to do and as I said Fergie isn't adapting the system to compensate. You don't see managers asking Pirlo to play in a two man midfield.
And it's those tougher games where the likes of Clev and Ando need to get experience, certainly Clev who in reality has played few games in centre mid for a 23 year old we're hoping to be a fixture of our midfield for the next 10 years or so. Whilst he's fit we should get him/Ando involved as much as possible whilst retaining the safety net of Scholes/Giggs.