{"id":1107362,"date":"2019-09-20T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1107362"},"modified":"2019-09-20T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:06:58","slug":"scholes-solskjaer-must-find-player-carrick-role-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/scholes-solskjaer-must-find-player-carrick-role-man-utd\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholes: Solskjaer must find a player who fits &#8216;Carrick role&#8217; for Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Scholes believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must find Manchester United&#8217;s new Michael Carrick in midfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carrick made 464 appearances for the Red Devils during his playing and is now part of Solskjaer&#8217;s coaching staff at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who could United&#8217;s new Carrick be? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Scholes believes United are lacking a controlling influence in the middle of midfield.<\/li>\n<li>The ex-England international believes Solskjaer needs to find a Carrick-esque player to fill the role.<\/li>\n<li>He earmarked Scott McTominay and Paul Pogba as potential candidates.<\/li>\n<li>Pogba has completed more passes in the Premier League (247) than any Man Utd midfielder.<\/li>\n<li>McTominay ranks second among their midfielders with 220.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7373702-tammy-abraham-can-equal-a-unique-luis-suarez-feat-vs-liverpool\/embed\/v4?image_option=full\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scholes was also a team-mate of Carrick&#8217;s and believes United miss his controlling influence in the middle of the park, earmarking Scott McTominay and Paul Pogba as two current squad members who could potentially take up that responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\u201cI think they need a player who can control a game. Michael Carrick was magnificent at doing that,&#8221; Scholes said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1107202\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/predictions\/west-ham-man-utd-predictions-preview-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107202\" class=\"wp-image-1107202 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81.png 1920w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-66x37.png 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-620x350.png 620w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2019\/09\/19172559\/feature_x-2-images-81-940x530.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">READ MORE:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/predictions\/west-ham-man-utd-predictions-preview-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham vs Man Utd preview, predictions &amp; possible XIs<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\u201cThey have some talented midfield players in there now. I think [Scott] McTominay has done really well this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\u201cAnd Pogba we all know on his day can be sensational and probably one of the best in the world in that position, but we just need to see it more often, we need to make sure he wants to stay at the club to get that out of him. But I think Ole will be looking, he\u2019ll be trying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Scholes: United&#8217;s lack of centre-forwards a worry<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Scholes also highlighted a potential lack of centre-forwards right now as a worry for Man Utd.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Greenwood, 17,\u00a0 netted his first senior goal against Astana in the Europa League on Thursday night, while Solskjaer does have Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p>However, Scholes is one of many to question whether the latter two are natural strikers or more suited to wide roles and suggested United may need to go back to the approach of having &#8220;four brilliant centre-forwards&#8221;, as was the case when Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chelsea Must Play Frank Lampard&#039;s Back Three w\/Rory Jennings\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJVdL5KI2qc?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\u201cI\u2019d be more worried about the centre-forward position,&#8221; he added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">&#8220;I know we spoke about Mason Greenwood coming through. We have Marcus and Martial \u2013 are they centre-forwards or are they wingers? We\u2019re not quite sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-message__body\" dir=\"auto\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\u201cI always think United, going back to when they were challenging for titles, they had four brilliant centre-forwards and I think that\u2019s something that\u2019s missing at this minute in time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https:\/\/embed.playbuzz.com\/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Scholes believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must find Manchester United&#8217;s new Michael Carrick in midfield. Carrick made 464 appearances for the Red Devils during his playing and is now part of Solskjaer&#8217;s coaching staff at Old Trafford. Who could United&#8217;s new Carrick be? Five things to know&#8230; Scholes believes United are lacking a controlling influence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":1104795,"parent":0,"menu_order":5065,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Man Utd news: Scholes explains what Solskjaer's side is missing","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Paul Scholes has picked out what Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is missing in his side this season.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1107362","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man Utd news: Scholes explains what Solskjaer&#039;s side is missing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Scholes has picked out what Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is missing in his side this season.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/scholes-solskjaer-must-find-player-carrick-role-man-utd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scholes: Solskjaer must find a player who fits &#039;Carrick role&#039; 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