straight to your inbox Manchester United's first Premier League game of the season away at Burnley will be postponed to ensure they have a 30-day gap between seasons.
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straight to your inbox Manchester United great Paul Scholes backed his former club to win the Europa League and named the only team who he thinks pose a big threat. United don't need to win the Europa League to guarantee Champions League qualification for next term but are aiming to end a three-year silverware drought, having not won a trophy since winning the same competition in 2017.United moved into the quarter-finals on Wednesday after recording a 7-1 aggregate win over LASK.
straight to your inbox Manchester United's first Premier League game of the season away at Burnley will be postponed to ensure they have a 30-day gap between seasons.
straight to your inboxRyan Giggs has heaped praise on former Manchester United coach Carlos Quieroz for his role in helping the Reds defeat Chelsea on penalties in the 2008 Champions League final.Sir Alex Ferguson guided his United team to the final in Moscow after knocking out Barcelona and took an early lead through Cristiano Ronaldo's header.
straight to your inbox Former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has expressed his confusion over Scott McTominay’s absence in recent games. The Scotland international started just four matches following the Premier League’s return in June, and was left out of the side for the Europa League semi-final defeat to Sevilla on Sunday.
straight to your inboxManchester United legend Paul Scholes said the team's entire back four was to blame for Sevilla's winning goal in the Europa League semi-final.
straight to your inbox Paul Scholes has insisted Manchester United don't have enough strength in depth to close the gap on Premier League champions Liverpool. United were knocked out of the Europa League at the semi-final stage on Sunday night after losing 2-1 to Sevilla.
straight to your inboxPaul Scholes believes Anthony Martial would be an even better player if Manchester United signed Harry Kane.The Frenchman has enjoyed his best goal-scoring season since arriving at Old Trafford after being utilised exclusively as a central striker by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer this season.Martial scored 23 goals in all competitions and was in particularly good form after the season restarted in June.Scholes previously doubted whether the 24-year-old had the desire to score goals
straight to your inbox Paul Scholes has urged Manchester United's board to spend the money required to bolster their attack this summer, insisting Jadon Sancho would have made a huge difference against Sevilla. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is keen for United to sign Sancho but Borussia Dortmund are adamant the player will not be leaving Westphalia this summer.Solskjaer waited until the 87th minute to make his first substitution against Sevilla as they surrendered an early lead to go out in Cologne.
straight to your inbox Paul Scholes defended David de Gea and insisted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was right to select the Manchester United number one ahead of Sergio Romero against Sevilla. Romero played in every Europa League game this season up until the last four, just as he did in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
straight to your inboxFormer Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov has told Scott McTominay he needs to put in 'extra effort' to force his way back into Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first-choice XI.The Scotland international was one of United's best performers in the early stages of the season but was then ruled out for two months with a knee injury.McTominay worked his way back into the team just before the campaign was suspended and was a squad player when the season eventually returned in
straight to your inboxSevilla captain Jesus Navas has warned his teammates about the attacking threat Manchester United will pose in their Europa League semi-final encounter this weekend.Navas faced United plenty of times during his Manchester City career and is expecting another difficult encounter when they meet in Germany on Sunday night.United struggled to find a way past Copenhagen in the last round but Navas insists their 'quick and dangerous' attacking players will cause Sevilla plenty of
straight to your inbox Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke hit back at suggestions from Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves that the German club is bluffing about Jadon Sancho's future. Manchester United were dealt a bombshell earlier in the week when Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc not only claimed Sancho will play for the club next season, but also revealed the 20-year-old has a contract in Westphalia that runs until 2023 - not 2022, as was previously thought.
straight to your inboxPaul Scholes has admitted he has changed his mind on Anthony Martial as a central striker following his impressive performances for Manchester United this season.The Frenchman has enjoyed his best goalscoring season at Old Trafford to date with 23 goals in all competitions as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's number nine.After Romelu Lukaku was sold to Inter Milan this summer, Martial has stepped up after regaining his favoured shirt number, leading United's attack across four
United may well face Sevilla in the Europa League last four if both clubs overcome Copenhagen and Wolves in their respective quarter-final clashes. United were infamously knocked out of the Champions League by Sevilla in 2018 in a defeat that prompted the Jose Mourinho 'football heritage' rant in the post-match press conference.
straight to your inboxManchester United fans disagree with Paul Scholes' claim that his former side should be prioritising a new centre forward instead of a deal for Jadon Sancho during the transfer window.Sancho remains a priority target for United on the back of an exceptional campaign in the Bundesliga.
straight to your inboxPaul Scholes believes that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is following in the footsteps of Sir Alex Ferguson by handing opportunities to young players at Manchester United.Teden Mengi became the eighth academy graduate to make his debut for United this season, the first time that tally of debutants from the youth ranks has been hit since the 1950s.United have a proud history of blooding academy players into the first-team, evidenced by Mason Greenwood's and Marcus Rashford's rises to