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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jake Polden

Man Utd sold three of the four players Paul Scholes advised the club to axe

Manchester United were struggling under Old Gunnar Solskjaer back in 2019 and Paul Scholes was asked for his honest opinion on four players whose contracts were close to expiration.

The players in question were Juan Mata, Ander Herrera, Antonio Valencia and Matteo Darmian, and Scholes wrote the quartet off by announcing he would offer "none of them" an extension beyond their current deals.

Interestingly, he said the opposite for Paul Pogba, explaining: "I think there was a time going back a few years, when if United lost a player, no matter how big a player it was. Whether it was David Beckham, Roy Keane, or Cristiano [Ronaldo] at times. It didn't matter, it really didn't matter.

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