Manchester United legend Paul Scholes says he’s unsure whether the club will win the Premier League whilst Romelu Lukaku is the first-choice striker.
Jose Mourinho and his side have come in for a lot of criticism this season after a lacklustre start to the campaign. They currently sit in eighth position in the league table having accumulated 13 points from their opening eight league fixtures.
Speculation had suggested that Mourinho was in line for the sack before the recent international break, but a dramatic 3-2 win over Newcastle earlier this month has kept him in the job for the time being.
After claiming that the current United team would not even be successful if they signed Lionel Messi, former Red Devils midfielder Scholes has expressed his concerns regarding a number of players in Mourinho’s side, not least striker Lukaku, who has four league goals to his name so far this season.
“I’m just not sure you are ever going to win the league with a goal scorer like him. I don’t think his play outside of the box is good enough,” Scholes told ESPN.
“I’m not sure if he works hard enough but he’s still a young man who has done well and scored a lot of goals. He’s quick and strong, but Lukaku is one of many United players who look like they’re short of confidence.
“I don’t think he realises how good he can be, but he needs help because who else can play centre-forward at United now?”
The Pogba problem
The relationship between Mourinho and midfielder Paul Pogba seems to have become increasingly strained in recent weeks and Scholes is not sure that the Frenchman will be able to excel in the current environment at Old Trafford.
“How old is [Paul Pogba], 25? He does some of the best things in games, a great pass or dribble, a great touch or dribble.
“Then, five minutes later, he’ll do one of the worst things like his brain has switched off, like it’s all about him because he’s just shown everyone how good he is.
“That becomes easy to play against because you know that cockiness will come. Against Wolves, he showed a great touch to Fred but then the next minute he’d given the ball away in midfield, which led to a goal. That sums him up.
“We never saw that at Juventus, but [Pogba] was a smaller fish there. Look around that team, with [Gianluigi] Buffon, [Andrea] Pirlo, [Leonardo] Bonucci, [Giorgio] Chiellini, [Claudio] Marchisio: great experienced players.
“I loved that team, especially Pirlo and the way he was so relaxed as he controlled the game. Pogba was part of a great team but he’s come to United where he’s got nobody to control him like he had at Juventus.”
United take on Chelsea this weekend at Stamford Bridge.
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