Well said.
The serious press (Jonathan Wilson, Rory Smith, Ogden) don't indulge in this crap but the tabloid hacks like Sameul do.
Then there are these these PFM types (and Scholesly absolutely is one) who always have a go at foreigners first. It's not even about race first, they will always support a Marcus over a Marcos. Remember the free ride Joe Hart got for ages till Guardiola binned him? Ole and Schemichel are themselves in many ways English PFMs right down to their manc inflected accents and constant chirping about 'the way' or 'the attitude' etc.
The fact is that both Keane and Scholes have sulked and acted like absolute idiots when they were players. What Keane did in 2002 was disgraceful and you all know it. Read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/nov/08/newsstory.sport7
^ The focus on his unsmiling nature, his form. If that was Pogba you'd have the likes of Scholes ready with the knives out, ready to dine out on it for a week.
If you lose they will always be a scapegoat. Rio could only get away with his daft world cup windups because we were winning. It's worth remembering that when we drew to Burton in 2005 or 06 in a goalless draw and they got a replay, Big Pete slagged off half our side and said "From where I'm looking, the players seem interested only in cars and who has the biggest diamond. The team lacks personality.
"They had that in Roy Keane but the only one with that kind of personality now is Wayne Rooney.
"I'm thinking about players who could take the club forward. Ronaldo? No chance. Park? No chance. Ferdinand? No chance. United would be a very ordinary team without Rooney."
Then the Burton captain, some no name clogger, spouted some Troy Deeney shite about our players no having hunger or desire. You can literally repost what Schmeichel said and swap out the old names for Martial, Fred and Pogba and replace Rooney with Rashford and it would be lapped up today.
It happens over and over. PFMs love setting themselves up as guardians of some secret code. To an extent players have to bear this. But at least Scholes and Keane you can bear because they were incredible footballers. If Henry or Wrighty had said it you can bear it. I don't think Souness and Keane are necessarily wrong about Pogba and the circus around him but there's a time and a place. They constantly snipe about him even when he's nowhere near the team. But Jason fecking Mcateer? An absolute nothing players who wore that white suit to the FA Cup final? feck off.
All that said, Pogba hardly helps himself by tweeting that picture after Mourinho was sacked or letting his agent mouth off.