Club legend Paul Scholes is frightened for Manchester United. The inspirational member of the iconic Class of ’92 isn’t wrong either. Sure, some of this is classic overreaction to the unthinkable home loss to Swansea City on opening day. Then again, some of the concern is totally warranted too.
“I am scared for United. Genuinely scared they could go into the wilderness in the same way Liverpool did in the 1990s,” Scholes said in the Independent newspaper on Thursday.
“What do they need? Five players. Five proper players who can hit the ground running and turn round a situation that looks desperate. Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club to which I gave my life as a footballer. But United need to arrest their decline.”
Five players?
ESPN FC’s Craig Burley is famous for saying United needed six players at the end of last year’s David Moyes disaster. He kind of doubled down on that stance this year. Although he admitted that they have two (at the time, now it’s three) of the five they needed. Still, what Paul Scholes said is a chilling thought, and I wouldn’t even be bothering to
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