Who was in the wrong here?

>Jose Mourinho has hit back at former Manchester United star Paul Scholes for his criticism of United's France midfielder Paul Pogba.

>Speaking after Saturday's 0-0 draw with Southampton, Scholes said: "He doesn't look like a player who will win you games - that's what you pay £90m for."

>"He is just strolling through games," said Scholes who won 11 league titles at Old Trafford.

>"Pogba doesn't look fit, I wonder whether he is training properly.

>"No-one in England should be getting near him, but he is being asked to do a role he is not comfortable in.

>"You have to say the manager has to take responsibility for that."

>Following the 2-0 win over Everton on Monday, United boss Mourinho said: "The only thing Scholes does is criticise.

>"Scholes will be in history as a phenomenal player. Not as a pundit."

>"Not everyone has to be phenomenal like he was. As a player he was phenomenal, but it doesn't mean we all have to be phenomenal.

>"Sometimes Pogba plays very well, sometimes he plays well and sometimes he doesn't play well. Pogba tries his best all the time.

>"It's not Paul's fault that he made much more money than Paul Scholes. It's not Paul Pogba's fault, it's just the way football is."

>And Mourinho added: "If Paul [Scholes] decides to be a manager one day, I wish that he can be 25% as successful as myself.

>"Fifty per cent is 12-and-a-half silverware, 25% is around six [trophies]. If he is 25% he will be quite happy."

damn Scholes got destroyed by Mou desu

Paul Pogba definitely is fit, the problem is Jose’s been playing him totally wrong. He’s better just behind the strikers where he can find killer passes instead of sitting deep with Matic in a 4-2-3-1. Took mouyes too long to realise that - when he played in a midfield 3 at everton the football was much more free flowing.

Pundits are all absolute scum, pretty much scripted at this point in time. Fuck knows why the British public embraced this style of American journalism.

Why do people need to be told what happened in a football game? its a fucking simple sport

Remember that football pundit that was/became a great manager?

Oh right they're all sacked cunts/coaching failures who can't into full time management/coaching jobs that pay better.

>p-pls don't criticise
lmao

Scholes can literally do no wrong

The Class of 92 (tm) have been trying to undermine every manager since Fergie. I love Scholes as a player, but as a pundit, he's done nothing but take potshots at Man Utd for 3 years. They want the job. He and the rest of the 92 inexplicably turned up on the bench beside Giggs when he took charge of 3 games after Moyes' sacking.

I remember reading a post on a football forum once where a guy was talking about how he was on the same plane out to a World Cup as the bulk of the English football journalists. He says they were the most arrogant people he'd met and saw themselves as an integral part of the sport.

I don't rate Mourinho.
I don't rate Pogba.
I don't even rate Scholes to be honest.

I don't watch English television, so I can't say anything about Scholes as a pundit.
But there are very few things as annoying as former players who can't stop complaining about the club. A commentator that used to play for the team I support would criticize the coach's tactics every time he could.

"Playing for the 1x0 doesn't work in a league"
"With those defensive tactics, he won't last for 1/4 of the season"

As it turns out, the team had a Manchester City like record in the first half of the season and won the Brazilian Championship with 9 points above the 2nd place team. And that with 2 losses and 1 draw in the last 3 games, since they couldn't give a damn since they had already won the league.

Dickhead

It's just Mouyes trying to turn the fans against himself so he can fuck off to PSG in summer.

>"Scholes will be in history as a phenomenal player. Not as a pundit."
>phenomenal player

what?

Pogba is not a 10. He didnt even play that position at Juventus. He's an all rounded box to box.

Giggs is such a faggot. Doesnt want to take a lower division club because he thinks he's Zidane or something where he can man manage a club of superstars to a league title or something.

Is Paul Pogba the Paul Scholes of our generation?

No, he's the less talented Yaya Toure

see

Didnt he fuck his brother's wife or some shit?

Yes, and he never apologized

Fans usually don't dislike when coaches answer to former players who like to shit on the club.

>"It's not Paul's fault that he made much more money than Paul Scholes. It's not Paul Pogba's fault, it's just the way football is."

BTFO

mouyes obviously
>perform like shit
>get criticized
>I-i won many trophies don't criticize me

>get shit on despite having an above average season with manure because pep is having the best season in the top 5 leagues history
>inherit a team full of black pacy wingers with no end product
>your big signings get injured all the time
>get shit on for spending as much as pep dispite having a worse starting team
>have the 3rd best attack in the league behind city and liverpool yet get called out for parking the bus all the time
>win 3 titles yet fans act like it's beneath them only the cl and league are real titles
>costumers think they are supposed to be above real and barca
>muh class of 92 cucks like Gary "teams shoulnt lose to barca 7-0 to barca. and then gets beaten 7-0 with valencia" Neville have the nerve to criticise mou's tactics despite not having an ounce of his experience

being mourinho is suffering he should just quit his job watch manure burn and wait for some oil team to have a opening at least those teams accept anything if it means sucess and ont act like they are too good to play like x

English pundits think their league is some kind of rubik's cube that takes years to figure out. Yet managers with no experience of EPL turn up and rape the league, even geriatrics like Ranieri rape it.

too many truth nukes for this audience friend-o

Mou destroyed Scholes, Pogba is not a 10 or a DM, he's literally at his best in a 3 man midfield playing CM staying on the edge of the box. Thread over

Scholes pretty much just said how I feel. I don't see how this is a very controversial statement. Does anyone think Pogba looks consistent and amazing in that position?

I wish that the football world was a bit more professional.

Scholes just thinks Pogba shouldn't have too much duty defensively - which is how he thrived at Juve, with lackadaisical, low work-rate defending and creative license going forward.

Mou doesn't understand this - now matter how better rhetorically he is than Scholes.

Scholes really is a sour bastard. I like Mou getting bullied though so I'm conflicted.

>spee is defending Mouyes
What went wrong?

Is Pogba good enough to have two men facilitate him? No

Scholes went wrong. He became bitter and jaded, possibly because he's a ginger manlet with famously tiny genitals.

Less talented and more tactically naive

They are both niggers desu

Yet Pogba will win a WC, funny how things go

Its also not the managers fault that Pogba is shit

Savage post, friendo

Pogba is, at best, pacy and strong and can score loose balls. There are plenty of players who can do this, and he is not the focal point of the team.

For some reason, he is trying to be the playmaker/DM/"I am the new Steven Gerrard" (for more than one reason) and he's just not talented enough or smart enough.

Scholes did his best to say "this is what worked for him at Juventus and he can't play the role he's trying to play. Mouyes should take blame as manager"

Mouyes' response was "pffffffft you're just a pundit!"

>this delusion

>Bookies second favourite to win WC
>Delusion

Bruh

Surely no one believes scholes knows shit about football? Literally the most overrated player of all time, complete 'smash it on goal from 50 yards' merchant did nothing but wallop the ball a large distance and was carried by his much more talented peers and manager (who had the FA in his pocket). Glad this babydick ginger twat is getting btfo by Mourinho

*luxury box to box
Literally needs to be carried by 2 other top class CMs to be of any worth

He really isn't particularly fast

To be fair it was an accident.

>b-but muh league cups

what a faggot

Scholes is just a whining cunt who can't accept that SAF has retired and Man U aren't as good as Fergie made them look. Mou has at least brought the club forward from the LVG and Moyes reign, which where both horrendous. LVG thought he was some sort of hero for winning a fluky as fuck FA cup despite not even finishing top 4

>no wins 3 or 4 games in a row with club who've let you spend extreme amounts of money
>scholes critiques you
>wait till you win a game again
>"lmao scholes btfo worst analist"

Fuck off from our club jose "buscompany" mourinho

wow almost like that time when mouyes spent half a billion and thought he was some sort of hero for winning a meme cup despite not even finishing top 4

Sorry mate, I got confused with EPL

All the Ferguson era Man Utd players have no hope of becoming good managers. They are too rich and all a bit thick.

He still got Champions league football and inherited a squad of overrated hacks, like Schneiderlin and Depay, and past it players like Rooney and Schwienstegier. They have been a lot better this season that anything under the LVG or Moyes reign, and actually look like a squad rather than a group of randomly assorted players. And Mourinho has spent relatively well, the only 'flop' he has had is Lindelof, who is improving a lot since the start of the season.

Ferguson managed Mark Hughes you dolt

>Ferguson managed Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes is shite. He is about to get sacked at fucking Stoke.

this, he is basically a nig

>basically

Steve "promotion specialist" Bruce as well.

>He's an all rounded box to box
That implies he can defend and has any tactical IQ at all. It really surprises me that he is a tactical retard when he's been playing in Italy for years, and he's playing under Mou. My guess is that he would've been exposed as fuck if he had played for any other team than JJ in Serie A.

Mourinho went ad hominem and didn't say anything meaningful about Pogba or in defense of his own tactics.

Also: Scholes is a better authority on CM talent than the Portuguese king of bus-parking.

it keeps the sport interesting and gives people something to talk about. At least your pundits are ex players or sacked cunts. Our pundits have never even played the sport. They're just there to troll online media

>this delusional
Kek customers

Pogba has been good this season.

Sports are interesting enough without mandrama attached.

based scholesy

American sports aren't

Has it been confirmed that he has small generals.

I'm convinced there must be ONE...but I can't think of any.

Anyway, all Mourinho needed to say, or should have said, was 'He looked fit today, didn't he?'. He was just trying to deflect from the recent iffy spell. Why isn't Scholes allowed an opinion?

>>have the 3rd best attack in the league behind city and liverpool yet get called out for parking the bus all the time
It's just the big games against actual rivals where he goes too defensive.

Na just bitter and jaded livershit fans think that.

theres a pic of him getting his shorts pulled down in a game and it is pretty small but your cock shrinks during exercise dunnit