{"id":530,"date":"2022-09-29T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/?p=530"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:45:48","slug":"epl-theyre-not-great-footballers-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"EPL: They\u2019re not great footballers \u2013 Paul Scholes criticises two Man Utd stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQF1l4xy-KGEpGc9DEiWoy_H1xkghw6DzReBpoX0voXjZAginMkjZ1oDLovxEgyDBiT2ekU43NsQAxvj5zd86ovyTkToSk0LNA-rJU1RexlYcSdckY4GWUIkOLqJVJG32iY_nJ4p5PXsIyKzJsYpMsYNYfyQVyqDtykygkO0TGLAPPo5svcb7CfwbhQg\/s1024\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640-1.jpg\" alt=\"EPL: They\u2019re not great footballers \u2013 Paul Scholes criticises two Man Utd stars - Image 1\" title=\"EPL: They\u2019re not great footballers \u2013 Paul Scholes criticises two Man Utd stars - Image 1\" class=\"wp-image-531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Paul-Scholes-1024x640-1-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span face=\"&quot;PT Serif&quot;, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">Manchester Uni4ted legend, Paul Scholes, has criticised two Red Devils stars, David de Gea and Raphael Varane, insisting that the duo are not great footballers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">Scholes said this ahead of Manchester United\u2019s Premier League derby against Manchester City on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cLouis Van Gaal joined Manchester United and wanted to play possession-based football, but United aren\u2019t that,\u201d said Scholes on Sky Sports\u2019 The Overlap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cIt was always about substance over style, scoring goals and making chances rather than a pretty end product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;\u201cThe crowd gets nervous when the goalkeeper tries to play a ten-yard pass, that is not a Manchester United philosophy, that is Barcelona or Ajax. With Erik ten Hag, he stumbled across it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: &quot;PT Serif&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Manchester Uni4ted legend, Paul Scholes, has criticised two Red Devils stars, David de Gea and Raphael Varane, insisting that the duo are not great footballers. Scholes said this ahead of Manchester United\u2019s Premier League derby against Manchester City on Sunday. \u201cLouis Van Gaal joined Manchester United and wanted to play possession-based football, but United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,62,24,71,38,63],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-makeup","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-trending","tag-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPL: They\u2019re not great footballers \u2013 Paul Scholes criticises two Man Utd stars - LifestyleGist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lifestylegist.com.ng\/?p=530\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPL: They\u2019re not great footballers \u2013 Paul Scholes criticises two Man Utd stars - LifestyleGist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Manchester Uni4ted legend, Paul Scholes, has criticised two Red Devils stars, David de Gea and Raphael Varane, insisting that the duo are not great footballers. 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