What's the problem? We all agree Scholes is a shit pundit, no?
Mourinho's comments on Scholes
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If he wants. Scholes dishes it out, I'm sure he can take it. Much rather see Jose defending Pogba than being scared to say how he feels about comments made against his players. Scholes goes into business for himself and his old teammates constantly, it's boring.
How so? We played a formation and put players where many have asked for.. but only because of injury. No way would with a full squad we see Pogba at LAM in a three or Martial as a 9.
Once everyone is fit again we will go back to same old and look disjointed yet again. He' a stubborn mule
Well done Jose for defending his player
Scholes was a fantastic player for us but he along with afew other ex players need to STFU at times.
Scholes was a fantastic player for us but he along with afew other ex players need to STFU at times.
I agree with Jose, especially the part about them wanting a job at the club. They did the same to LVG when they could smell blood. It’s not just “his point of view”, it’s politics.
Exactly
Defending his player from what?
He's defending Pogba, do people even read the article or just the headlines?
It's not the first time ex-United lads have been critical of the manager and it certainly won't be the last time, it only adds pressure to the manager. Although, I hope Mourinho would've avoided saying anything at all.
It's not the first time ex-United lads have been critical of the manager and it certainly won't be the last time, it only adds pressure to the manager. Although, I hope Mourinho would've avoided saying anything at all.
Scholes only comes out when we have poor games/results. Even LVG wasn't happy with him either. It's fair to say he is a miserable pundit. I've never seen him have anything positive to say about United even when we play well. Mourinho should've just let it go as well. He went a bit too far with these comments.
It's funny cause it's like he listened to Scholes and today changed his position. 
Probably right though tbf. People need to stop getting so pissy about Mourinho and grow a pair.
Mourinho was right, and I thought the way he responded was kind of funny to be honest. Not a problem for me.
The fact people don't want to admit this is true is embarrassing. It's so obvious, and we've seen it all before.
Scholes needs to be more responsible with his comments instead of following the doom and gloom "everything is falling apart" narrative. He has a lot of influence on public opinion. His comments always jump on the bandwagon in terms of the narrative the media are currently running with.
He pulled a similar stunt with Van Gaal when we were not doing too badly in the league but Mr Scholes wasn't happy with the football so piled on more pressure on the manager saying how boring unacceptable the football was and then our form completely nose dived along with many fans turning on the manager faster than McDonald's serve their fries.
There is no problem having his opinion but when there is no balance in assessment and the comments are not in the club's interest, insightful or productive, then he needs to be taken to task.
There's a reason why Nicky Butt doesn't want him any where near the club.
Scholes deserves this.
He pulled a similar stunt with Van Gaal when we were not doing too badly in the league but Mr Scholes wasn't happy with the football so piled on more pressure on the manager saying how boring unacceptable the football was and then our form completely nose dived along with many fans turning on the manager faster than McDonald's serve their fries.
There is no problem having his opinion but when there is no balance in assessment and the comments are not in the club's interest, insightful or productive, then he needs to be taken to task.
There's a reason why Nicky Butt doesn't want him any where near the club.
Scholes deserves this.
I thought you meant in Spite of Pogba after your "Scholes was right" comment. I don't agree with this either but it's a lot less silly than what I thought you meant.
Scholes was more on about how Pogba was being used as opposed to having a crack at him. He didn't need defending.
Mourinho was having a petty dig at Scholes there. Simple as that.
Defending his captain. If you've got a problem with that, you're probably more interested in the past than the future.
Let's be honest, if he was getting better results, this forum would have lapped this stuff up. It's how it always goes with supporters, back the (successful) manager.
I have said many times that I am unhappy with his football and that he should get more out of this squad but I feel he isn't wrong this time to say this. Good on him and he's actually right.
I have said many times that I am unhappy with his football and that he should get more out of this squad but I feel he isn't wrong this time to say this. Good on him and he's actually right.
Good man Jose. Sick of listening to depressing shit from Scholes. Never any praise it’s always doom and gloom.
I just hope that the justified criticism coming from no matter what sector won't force Jose into enforcing mindless contrary move to prove someone wrong, by which way he will torpedo his own ship.
In fairness, I don't think he's whinging completely. He's basically saying here Pogba is playing well because he's good at everything, but you could get more out of him by playing him in a three with a great passer behind him and let him get on with attacking.
Its the title of the video that Mourinho's probably seen, or something similar in the press but it's taken out of context.
This is a bit odd given the thing Scholes said about Pogba's role was exactly what Mourinho did today and we won because of it, so why start a fight.
Jose is bang on I don't get how anyone can be annoyed at him for this given the sheer bitter rubbish Scholes and Gary Neville have said about him and Utd as pundits
Considering the amount of hatred in here every time Roy Keame mentions us it's strange that Neville and Scholes get a pass for being far not critical
Considering the amount of hatred in here every time Roy Keame mentions us it's strange that Neville and Scholes get a pass for being far not critical
Did you even watch what Scholes said about Pogba? He didn't shit on Pogba, all he spoke about was how talented Paul is and that he would prefer Pogba to enjoy a more attacking role and play with more freedom.
No way does Jose have a right or need to say anything about Scholes. It was constructive advice and not even criticism.
People on here would swear at their mum if Jose convinced them with some bullshit.
Lads for feck sake he is allowed to defend himself. Scholes is not a great pundit at all. He is a fan watching his team and trying to unbiased and like most of us he likes to have a pop at the manager if things arent going well. I loved Paul as a player but he couldnt even be arsed to give coaching a go so whilst Jose might be ruffling some feathers he is perfectly right to defend himself.
Neville especially wants the CO92 in charge.
Actually listen to the whole comments that jose made. He lauded him actually at the end. But fairs fair, Scholes was a great legendary player, as Mourinho stated....but he's never managed...never had the balls to and it is a totally totally different game as so many have experienced. Managing a premier league football team today has changed even since Fergie left. Didn't find anything wrong with what he said. If you are criticised and questioned about it..what is he meant to say...'yeah, Paul is right, I'm shite...' Fecks sake...
Nope. He said Pogba was 'unfit' and perhaps Jose took offense to someone calling his training methods into question. An 'unfit' player shouldn't be playing games and that's why Jose maybe wasn't best pleased with the comments.
I’ve always been pro Jose but there’s no way he can take on Scholes and win. Should’ve known better. Maybe wind it in a bit Mou?
Yep, we saw this story when van Gaal was in charge. They want Giggs in there so they can join him and run the club. Thankfully, Woodward has more sense than that.
Meh, this gets unwanted attention to make it bigger than it is.
Scholes said his opinion, Jose didn't agree with him and called him out saying it's easy to talk sitting in the studio.
Scholes said his opinion, Jose didn't agree with him and called him out saying it's easy to talk sitting in the studio.
Oh.. no way Pogba was immense. MOTM by a country mile. His best performance for us.. looked absolutely world class today.
The quotes I've seen are clearly a dig on Pogba from Scholes.
Love Scholes but he’s a misarable fecker whenever he opens his mouth nowadays
A pundit he is not.
A pundit he is not.
As petty as Mourinho's comments are, he has a point.
Scholes never said a word on the pitch, barely confronted people - in his playing days he left the likes of Keane, and even Beckham to an extent, get involved in arguments with opposition midfields/opposition players.
But now he's a pundit he's becoming a Big time Charlie - didn't see any of this when we were playing and the likes of Vieira were trying to intimidate our players.
If Scholes fancies himself as such a Big time Charlie, why didn't he defend his mate Gary Neville when Vieira confronted him in the Highbury tunnel in '05? Why didn't Scholes do what Keane did?
Top, top, top player - but a seriously annoying and hypocritical pundit.
Scholes never said a word on the pitch, barely confronted people - in his playing days he left the likes of Keane, and even Beckham to an extent, get involved in arguments with opposition midfields/opposition players.
But now he's a pundit he's becoming a Big time Charlie - didn't see any of this when we were playing and the likes of Vieira were trying to intimidate our players.
If Scholes fancies himself as such a Big time Charlie, why didn't he defend his mate Gary Neville when Vieira confronted him in the Highbury tunnel in '05? Why didn't Scholes do what Keane did?
Top, top, top player - but a seriously annoying and hypocritical pundit.
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I understand Jose''s frustration and let us not.kid.our club legends have been very critical since moyes was sacked ( funny how they rarely spoke when that clown was incharge)
Having said that why cannot Jose for one moment shut the feck up and not attract more attention. Today we won. Let us all smile, just refuse to talk about all negatives. It's like he just don't know how to not attract criticsm.
Having said that why cannot Jose for one moment shut the feck up and not attract more attention. Today we won. Let us all smile, just refuse to talk about all negatives. It's like he just don't know how to not attract criticsm.
None of that is wrong really. The 25% comment is crawpy but Scholes is a great player, I would say so-so pundit and as of yet near zero as a manager and coach.
While you could argue Jose has no business commenting on Scholes and should be concentrating on managing us instead of having slanging matches in the media, particularly with a United legend, you can also see why he would react (however over-sensitively) to perceived criticism. He's taken a few slings and arrows, fairly, after a poor run so giving a bit back after a good result is fine by me. Everyone involved is an adult so I don't have a problem.
While you could argue Jose has no business commenting on Scholes and should be concentrating on managing us instead of having slanging matches in the media, particularly with a United legend, you can also see why he would react (however over-sensitively) to perceived criticism. He's taken a few slings and arrows, fairly, after a poor run so giving a bit back after a good result is fine by me. Everyone involved is an adult so I don't have a problem.
A petty response, but sadly no surprises there
He's right. Superb player, but another in a long line of crap pundits.
Scholes was spot on. Pogba looked a completely different player today