Paul Scholes' reaction to Atletico Madrid only explains mistakes Manchester United cannot repeat

Manchester United's Champions League exit to Atletico Madrid was the icing on a pretty terrible cake for the fanbase this season. Many had accepted it would be an uphill battle to compete after the dismissal of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but, as football fans, the hope always has to be there.

The defeat has resulted in outrage online from fans and former United players alike. And in the post-match show on BT Sport, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves all gave their thoughts. Scholes was the most vocal, continuing down a similar line of analysis that he has taken up over the past few months.

He said: “How [Ralf Rangnick] was chosen to be manager of this club, I don’t know. Getting a proper coach for this team is a massive thing. There is some real talent in this squad."

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The former United midfielder then went on to say: "You need a manager that strikes fear into players, Sir Alex Ferguson had that, have any of the managers since him had that? I don’t think so. It’s a special talent to have as a coach.

"Those Man City players under Pep [Guardiola], those Liverpool players under [Jurgen] Klopp, they’ll get away with nothing. These players here for the last two or three years have got away with murder. I’m not saying they’ll catch Man City or Liverpool, but I don’t think they’re far away from Chelsea, squad-wise, but once they get that right coach and have two or three years to build, they’ll be challenging again."

The issue here is that Scholes is projecting the aura that these two managers have now onto them when they first started their projects. Some fans had their doubts in Guardiola's first season, and Klopp was not